Backgrounds
APEC Research Center for Advanced Biohydrogen Technology (ACABT) was approved following the initiative proposed by Chinese Taipei delegation to APEC. The organization was established at the APEC 37th Industrial Science and Technology Working Group (ISTWG) Meeting in Suzhou, People’s Republic of China, 2009, and endorsed at the APEC 1st PPSTI Centers Cooperation Conference (CCC) in Pohang, Republic of Korea, 2016.
APEC Policy Partnership on Science, Technology, and Innovation (PPSTI) works to identify, assess, and make recommendations to address challenges and opportunities to support science, technology and innovation (STI) growth and development in the APEC region. The forum’s strategic focus is to foster STI cooperation through collaboration between government, academia, the private sector and other APEC fora.
APEC-ACABT, as an specialized APEC center under PPSTI, is set to support advancing PPSTI’s missions. It aims to build an international platform for professionals to collaborate on developing innovative green technologies in relevant fields. This platform set the long-term mechanism of utilizing renewable biomass resources as renewable alternatives in place of fossil fuels, which reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce green biohythane/biofuels/bioproducts through biorefinery processes, contributing to benefit the driving of bioeconomy with business models that concern environmental and societal issues, and then promoting green sustainability of local communities in the APEC member economies.
*ISTWG was transformed into the Policy Partnership on Science, Technology and Innovation, PPSTI, in 2012*
Goal and Missions
APEC-ACABT’s goal and missions is aligned with the Putrajaya Vision 2040 and Aotearoa Plan of Action through the economic driver Strong, Balanced, Secure, Sustainable, and Inclusive Growth by building capacity, enabling cross-border cooperation, facilitating knowledge and experience exchange, and develop network for multilateral engagement in advancing green technologies in biohydrogen-related fields for sustainable development.
APEC-ACABT’s goal is to build an international platform based on the long-term mechanism that convert biowaste to biohythane/biofuels/bioproducts through biorefinery processes, which further drives bioeconomy with business models in the APEC region. To achieve the goal, the organization actively engages in executing two main missions as follows:
- Networking: To build an interconnected network, facilitating international collaboration and communication among the partnerships from the APEC member economies by holding seminars, conferences, and symposia.
- Capacity Building: To enhance capabilities of science and technology, fostering a culture that support the environment for innovation in the APEC region by hosting policy dialogues, workshops, training courses, and best practices.
Long-term Mechanism
To build a collaborative platform for APEC economies on the concept of biowastes-to-biohythane/biofuels conversion to bioenergy through biorefinery that promotes growth of bioeconomy via business model in the APEC region.
Scope of Work
APEC-ACABT shall manage the works as follows:
- Attend APEC PPSTI meetings, APEC Cross-fora meetings, and APEC PPSTI Centers Cooperation Conferences (CCC), etc.
- Host policy dialogues, workshops, training courses, best practices, and other APEC events to develop recommendations for the APEC economies.
- Hold seminars, conferences, and symposia, and other international events in biohydrogen, bioprocesses, and related fields to share achievement of research and development.
- Establish chapters and branches to expand the collaborative network in the APEC region.
- Engage in APEC Cross-fora/Centers Cooperations to complement APEC-ACABT’s works
- Partner with relevant regional and international bodies, such as OECD, ASEAN, World Bio-HyLinks (WBHL), and International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE), etc., to advance APEC-ACABT’s works.
- Publish and disseminate the online newsletters with updated information.
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