Architects cannot renovate it.

Businesses cannot incorporate it.

Churches cannot inculcate it.
Developers cannot innovate it.
Engineers cannot calculate it.
Governments cannot legislate it.
Judges cannot adjudicate it.
Lawyers cannot litigate it.
Manufacturers cannot fabricate it.
Politicians cannot appropriate it.
Scientist cannot formulate it.
Technicians cannot generate it.
Only you can orchestrate it.

Closing Statement by ADB President Takehiko Nakao at the 46th Annual
Meeting of the Board of Governors on 5 May 2013 (as drafted)
Mr. Chairman, ADB Governors, ladies and gentlemen:
I would like to express my sincere appreciation to all of you for your
contributions and participation during the 46th Annual Meeting. This
meeting provided me an excellent opportunity to interact with you. I have
learned a lot during these past few days, and I look forward to acting on
your guidance. As I mentioned in my opening address yesterday, I will
continue our interaction and deepen our dialogue to build a more open,
transparent and effective ADB.
During this meeting, I was impressed by remarks by Governors regarding
their continued efforts for prudent macroeconomic management and
structural reforms. This meeting was a good forum to exchange
experiences.
Among the challenges facing Asia and Pacific region today, your shared
view was that ensuring inclusive and sustainable growth is most critical. I
appreciate your support for the vision of three Is a more innovative,
more inclusive and more integrated Asia and Pacific.
I would like to close this meeting by making the following six points related
to ADB operations.
First, many of you emphasized the need for ADB to continue its focus on
infrastructure. You also underlined the importance of infrastructure for
inclusive economic growth and poverty reduction. ADB will continue its
focus on infrastructure. In addition to our own resources, we will actively
explore greater opportunities for cofinancing with other bilateral sources
and catalyzing private sector resources. We will also support our
developing member countries in more effectively mobilizing their domestic
resources, including through taxation and stronger financial systems.
Second, the issue of inclusiveness is increasingly important given rising
inequalities across and within countries. Without addressing the issue of
inequality, growth will not be sustainable. Inclusion and empowerment will
continue to underpin our operations. In addition to other dimensions of
inclusiveness, gender equality will be given a high priority.
Third, as noted by many of you, we must give due attention to the
environment, climate change and green growth. I assure you that this
emphasis, too, will continue to guide our operations. In particular, we will
pay special attention to the needs of small island economies.
Fourth, you have acknowledged ADBs important role in regional
integration. I was encouraged by observations of the Governors that
regional integration has provided very tangible benefits in Asia and the
Pacific. For example, sharing of hydropower resources has been win-win
solution for participating countries, based on trust and sense of shared
interest. We will further strengthen our support to deepen integration across
the region, and with the global economy.
Fifth, ADB is facing a resource challenge. This issue will require urgent and
careful attention. We will look at alloptions for ensuring that our lending level
remains adequate. We will also start the mid-term review of Strategy 2020
and work on the long-term vision for the Asian Development Fund. We will
closely consult with all of you in these processes.
Finally, as many of you mentioned, under Mr. Kurodas leadership, ADB
has become a highly relevant, responsive and results-focused institution. I
will consolidate the gains made. I promise to intensify our internal reforms
to further increase our efficiency and development effectiveness, especially
when many of our shareholders face severe economic and financial
difficulties. In particular, we will focus on improving project performance
and outcomes.
On behalf of all of us, I would like to sincerely thank the Government of
India for hosting this 46th Annual Meeting. And I again thank the people of
India for welcoming us especially many officials and volunteers whose
support has been invaluable.
Before concluding, let me congratulate the Governor for Kazakhstan, who
will serve as Chair of the Board of Governors for the coming year. I look
forward to seeing all of you next year when we meet in Astana for ADB's
47th Annual Meeting.
Thank you again, and have a safe and pleasant journey home.
Closing Remarks
Dr. T. Kawashima
Senior Managing Director, International Nature Farming Research Center, Atami,
Japan

Mr. Chairman, Distinguished guests and participants of the Sixth International Conference on
Kyusei Nature Farming,

On behalf of the Organizers and sponsors of this conference, it is indeed my pleasure to make a
few closing remarks and express gratitude to all those who made this event a reality.

The planning of the Sixth International Conference was initiated in Bangkok two years ago. At
this conference, the representatives of South Africa invited the sponsors and all those who
attended to come to this beautiful and important country.

The planning of a conference is paved with difficulties. This especially so if most of the work is
done in a place that is 11 hours flying time from the venue, and also 6 hours flying time from the
sponsors. This was in Bangkok, where a network sponsored by our organization, namely Asia
Pacific Natural Agriculture Network, did most of the spadework, in conjunction with two
gentlemen from South Africa, Professor G A Smith and Mr. I Yoshida. With the advent of time,
changes took place, and we were very glad that the organizers located Professor J F Prinsloo of
the University of the North as the Chairman of the Organizing Committee. In the last few weeks,
we were very fortunate to meet Professors Casey and Jacobs and also Mrs. Steenkamp of the
University of Pretoria along with Natasha Harris of the University of the North who helped us
significantly to make this a reality.

On behalf of the sponsors, the International Nature Farming Research Center, it is with humility
that I thank all of these people. Their inputs were invaluable to make this event a reality. I do
also wish to express our gratitude to the Director of the Ubuntu Center, Mr. Huibert Franke and
his staff for agreeing to host a day of this conference.

A significant part of planning this conference was carried out at APNAN in Thailand under the
guidance of its President, Professor Dr. Teruo Higa, its mentor, Rev Kazuo Wakugami and his
staff of the Sekai Kyusei Kyo of Thailand. Many others helped out, especially the young staff at
APNAN. The sponsors express their thanks to them.

A conference becomes a success only if participants arrive. They are the lifeblood of a
conference. Thus, we do express our sincere thanks to all of you who have come from over 37
countries to be with us today. We do thank you for being interested in Kyusei Nature Farming
and EM Technology. Your presentations and active participation will be the success of this
event, sponsored by our organization.

Dear Friends, Kyusei Nature Farming, together with the technology of Effective Microorganisms
is something that is becoming popular and appropriate in the modern world. This technology is
not just magic, but is based on sound scientific and ecological principles. Thus please participate
actively in this conference and make it a greater success than envisaged.

It is my sincere duty to thank all of you here toady. Do enjoy your stay here in South Africa,
please contribute to the conference and once back in your own environments, use the concepts
that you learnt at this conference to make this earth a better place for all living beings.

Thank you.
CLOSING REMARKS
HERMAN, STEVEN A. 1
AND VERKERK, PIETER J.2
1
Assistant Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, SW MC 2211 A, W ashington, D.C.
20460
2
Inspector General, Inspectorate for the Environment, Ministry of Housing, Spatial
Planning and the Environment, IPC 680, P.O. Box 30945, 2500 GX The Hague, The
Netherlands
Dear participants, on behalf of the Executive Planning Committee for the Fifth
International Conference on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, we bring this
conference to a close. We want to thank the speakers, the moderators, the facilitators,
rapporteurs and of course you as participants for your excellent contributions in the plenary
sessions, the workshops, the regional meetings, the exhibit materials, demonstrations and
also the clinics. We may conclude from your enthusiasm, without having seen your
evaluation forms, that we had a very successful conference. We have a final count of 245
participants from 101 countries and international organizations.
We realize you had to work very hard during this conference. Not only the plenary
but also in all the workshops you participated in. You were a perfect audience for our speakers
and you did a very good job in the workshops. Let us always keep in mind what that hard
work is for our personal and professional commitment to protect the health and environment
of our citizens. We opened the conference with a vision and direction for our international
networking and for environmental compliance and enforcement. With the discussions and
active participation of each of you over the past five days we are well on our way to realizing
that vision. We hear comments from all quarters about how important the conference has
been, but it will be like unenforced laws and just a nice memory of Monterey unless you take
what you have gained from this Conference and put it to work for you and for all of us.
We were inspired by speeches of U.S. EPA Administrator Carol Browner who
described environmental enforcement as an essential pre-condition to realizing
environmental gains under most regimes in environmental law. She made it clear that the
business of environmental protection is one we must do and do well for ourselves and our
future generations, particularly for the health of our children who are disproportionately
affected by pollution. Her very strong message was echoed by the words of Mr. William Nitze,
Assistant Administrator for International Activities, of USEPA and Mrs. Lois Schiffer, Assistant
Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice emphasizing the importance
of cooperation and exchange of approaches, information and effective communications and
training whether it is at the international level or at the national level to make environmental
compliance and enforcement happen.
In our opening remarks, Pieter Verkerk emphasized the international nature of
environmental problems and environmental enforcement. He called for greater attention to
environmental concerns in international and domestic political policy agendas to create the
necessary conditions for establishing an adequate environmental compliance and
enforcement program in each country. He pointed to a recent study which showed pollution
levels were 30% higher than they should have been with full compliance which challenged
all of us to communicate better with the politicians about the environmental results of
enforcement rather than just the principles of law and order.576 FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE

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