3E Forum
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The 3E Forum
The 3E Forum is a dialogue between leading scholars in environmental sciences from Korea, China and Japan aimed at addressing the critical issues of the environment, energy and the economy in our age.
The 3E Forum started among researchers at Tsukuba University and the research institutes that make up the Tsukuba Cluster in 2007. Experts in the 3E Forum discussed how the researchers in that cluster could improve collaboration and effectively use their technologies to make Tsukuba itself a leading center for environmental sustainability. At almost the same time, Daejeon launched the Daejeon Green Growth Forum, a group of researchers at KAIST and other research institutes in Daejeon, Korea's innovation cluster, to consider the same issues. In the world's first international 3E Forum, experts from Japan, Korea and now the Zhongguancun cluster around Tsinghua University in Beijing, will meet to discuss how Korea, China and Japan can more closely coordinate their efforts to achieve low-carbon sustainable growth through intense cooperation.
The 3E forum initially began in the R&D cluster of Tsukuba, Japan. Experts in environmental technologies met from 2007 to discuss how to improve the urban environment in their city. The goals of the 3E Forum are:
1. Technological innovations such as renewable energy sources and traffic systems are necessary to conserve energy and achieve carbon dioxide reduction.
2. To realize a low- carbon society, it is important to systematically integrate individual technologies, and to proceed from experimental research to practical use with a public consensus.
3. To form a partnership of industry, academia, government and citizens, we will create and carry out a concrete plan for the integration of relevant technologies and the development of sustainable social systems, moving from experiment to implementation.
4. To realize low carbon society, we must envision a social revolution wherein it is necessary to change people’s minds, and then promote various activities such as energy conservation. Shifts in our daily life patterns (through the establishment of a circular society of recycling and reuse) must accompany technical innovation.
5. To realize a circular society and low-carbon society, we must make use of our intellectual resources to inculcate and promote environmental leaders who are capable of nourishing a low-carbon mind.
6. We will start by planning a blueprint for a biomass town that takes full advantage of biomass resources. On the other hand, it is important to raise self-sufficiency rate of food and to promote the consumption of locally produced food so as to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
7. Since it takes decades to tackle global warming problems, each generation must keep up its efforts without flagging. Collaboration must extend out through the generations.
8. To realize a global low-carbon society, it is important that we promote collaboration among regions and cities at home and abroad, and share our thinking about the future with others gladly. We must make the low-carbon society seem practical and obtainable.
9. Cities concerned with environmental issues around the world are undertaking projects aimed at global warming issues. We promote collaborations between these cities to share the information and practical strategies, and to disseminate the results cooperatively.
