The 11th PASCAL Conference has opened in Hong Kong with welcomes from Professor Rupert Maclean of the Hong Kong Institute of Education and Professor Bruce Wilson, Head of the EU Centre at RMIT, and a keynote address by Professor Josef Konvitz, Chair of the PASCAL Board.

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Following two initial plenary panels, delegates have been discussing issues and challenges in four parallel strands concerned with the economic, green, health and social matters, which will be carried into a second day of field work in various sites of the city.

Pictured here are the panel for the Plenary Session on How to Achieve Sustainable Action and Change, Mary-Jane Ortega, until recently Secretary-General of Citynet, Philippines, Michael Osborne, Director, Europe for PASCAL, Kim Shinil, Baekseok University, Seoul, Korea and Ratna Jain, Mayor of Kota Municipal Corporation, India together with session moderator Howard Neilson.