KEI Co-Hosts the Second Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue

The Korea Environment Institute (KEI) is pleased to announce that it will be co-hosting the second annual convening of the Trans-Pacific Sustainability Dialogue (TPSD), with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford University and the Ban Ki-moon Foundation For a Better Future. The TPSD brings together social science researchers and scientists from Stanford University and across the Asia-Pacific region, as well as policymakers and practitioners, to facilitate the achievement of the United Nations-adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This second annual TPSD will be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on September 13-14, 2023. This year’s convening will focus on energy security, which is the seventh of the Agenda’s underlying 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The Korea Energy Economics Institute, Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute, K-water, and Ewha Womans University will also be co-hosting the event. The event’s supporters include the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea, the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, and the Asian Development Bank.

The KEI will co-host the first day of the dialogue with the Korea Energy and Economics Institute, which is set to take place at The Plaza Seoul. The event will begin with a World Leaders Session featuring Mr. Ban Ki-moon; Chairman of the State Great Hural (Parliament) of Mongolia Zandanshatar Gombojav; former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics, Stanford Professor Steven Chu; and Managing Director General of the Asian Development Bank Woochong Um. The following plenary sessions will delve into the intersections of energy security, sustainability, and issues such as geopolitics, green technologies, and clean energy co-benefits.

KEI President Chang Hoon Lee will preside over Plenary Session 2, organized by the Ban Ki-moon Foundation and KEI. Titled “Global Picture for Energy Security,” the session will feature representatives from Korea University, Korea Gas Corporation, and Green Climate Fund as panelists. 

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