The Future of Earth and Biodiversity Week
Weaving Water and Air with Children: From Expo 2025 to the Future
Suntory Holdings Limited ・ Daikin Industries, Ltd
Suntory and Daikin will conduct "A Spectacular Show of Water and Air" themed around the water and air connecting all life, every day during the period. This project is an environmental program designed to explore the "biodiversity" nurtured by water and air, which may not be fully expressed through the show.
Discussion
- Nature Positive
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking is available from the 2-month advance draw. Please check the site below for the timing of the booking start.
Please note that bookings may not be available due to the status.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
This programme is scheduled to be live streamed at the Virtual Expo. We will inform you once it is confirmed.
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Participation Programme
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
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2025.09.21[Sun]
10:00 ～ 12:00
(Venue Open 09:30)
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- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
Our lives are greatly blessed by nature, and the source of this welfare depend on the "biodiversity" nurtured by "water and air.” Suntory and Daikin are actively promoting activities worldwide to maintain the balance of nature and ecosystems, connecting this welfare to the future.
In this program, we will focus on "water and air" and engage several environmental experts to discuss global environmental issues in their expert perspective, not just in Japan but planetaly. We will also discuss initiatives and efforts towards a sustainable future.
Additionally, the both companies plan to invite children who are participating in theSDGs Program for the Next Generation Considering the Importance of "Water and Air". The both companies will host sessions to provide feedback from the perspective of biodiversity on the proposals made by the children.
Cast
Speakers
Suntory × Daikin: Out of KidZania - Young Researchers of Water and Air
Young Researchers of Water and Air
24 children aged 10 to 15 will participate in the Suntory x Daikin Out of KidZania Water and Air Researcher program, an SDGs program for the next generation that considers the importance of water and air. After a year of work experience related to water and air, they will make proposals for the future of society from EXPO2025.
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Taikan Oki
Professor and Special Advisor to the President of University of Tokyo, Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
Prof. Taikan Oki’s previous academic positions include Associate Professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature for 2002-03, and the Senior Vice-Rector of the United Nations University and an Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations for 2016-21. He was one of the coordinating lead authors for the chapter "Freshwater Resources" of the IPCC WGII AR5, and the President of the Japan Society for Hydrology and Water Resources for 2022-24. He is a full member of the Club of Rome and the Director of the 3rd Division of the Science Council of Japan. He got many awards including the Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2014, the International Hydrology Prize (Dooge medal) in 2021, John Dalton Meal of the European Geosciences Union in 2023, and Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Government of Japan and Stockholm Water Prize in 2024.
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HIOKI Yoshiyuki
Tottori University
Born in Tokyo in 1957. Graduated from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. After working as a landscaping engineer at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, he became a professor at the Faculty of Agriculture at Tottori University. In 2023, he became an emeritus professor at the same university. He specializes in ecological engineering, which "research technologies to restore degraded ecosystems." He is the author of "Nature Restoration" and "Encyclopedia of Environmental Greening". He loves mountaineering and skiing.
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The Future of Earth and Biodiversity Week
Weaving Water and Air with Children: From Expo 2025 to the Future
Suntory and Daikin will conduct "A Spectacular Show of Water and Air" themed around the water and air connecting all life, every day during the period. This project is an environmental program designed to explore the "biodiversity" nurtured by water and air, which may not be fully expressed through the show.
-
2025.09.21[Sun]
10:00～12:00
(Venue Open 09:30)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking is available from the 2-month advance draw. Please check the site below for the timing of the booking start.
Please note that bookings may not be available due to the status.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
This programme is scheduled to be live streamed at the Virtual Expo. We will inform you once it is confirmed.
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