Mr. Christopher Zamora, Manager, APAEC Program, ACE, summarized discussions, outcomes, lessons learned in the workshop and thanked all the related persons for their contribution to the success of the workshop. He also reviewed the whole workshop program with mention of importance of the holistic approach of this workshop. He meant not only lectures but interactive sessions were so helpful and fruitful this time. His comments were very comprehensive and included many suggestions to move the
participants in the direction of promoting, establishing and executing BEC back in their home countries with harmonization in ASEAN in mind.
Ms. Sayaka Shishido, Assistant Director, International Affairs Office, Agency for National Resources and Energy, METI, mentioned promising future of establishing and executing BEC in the ASEAN countries by fully utilizing the results of the workshop. She hoped that making full use of the output of the group discussion all the participants would continue to make efforts to apply precious information to practical promotion of BEC in their own countries.
Mr. Masahiko Horie, Special Assistant to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador, MOFA, made a closing remark, appreciating the cooperation between C2E2 and ECCJ this time as a typical synergy effect of the SEforALL movement as well as expecting information learned in this workshop to be used for promotion of BEC in the ASEAN countries. He sincerely hoped that the energy efficiency of buildings would make great progress in the respective countries and also in ASEAN as a whole in the future to attain the objectives of the SEforALL, namely Access to the modern Energy, More Renewable Energy and Double the rate of recent Energy Efficiency.
