The 2014 Macao International Environmental Protection Forum and Exhibition (2014MIECF), themed “Energizing Green Business Growth”, will be held on March 27-27 at the Convention and Exhibition Centre (CotaiExpo) of Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel.
Co-hosted by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and Macao Environmental Protection Bureau (DSPA), MIECF has continuously developed since its inception in 2008, to fully play its role as a green business, technology and information exchange platform between the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region and the international market.
MIECF is an annual event for the international environmental community. Through a series of activities, including exhibition, green forums, green business matching and Green Public Day, it aims to promote the green business and related technology exchange, push forward the development of international co-operation in the field of environmental protection, create business opportunities, and advocate the environmental protection concept.
After years of development, MIECF has become an efficient platform for the environmental industry and a certified “UFI Approved Event” by the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry since 2011. The number of visitors has increased from 2,000 registered in the first year to more than 10,000 in 2013. Of these, professional visitors increased from 2,000 to 6,805.
In the first edition, 164 exhibitors from eight countries and regions participated in the event. Last year, this number had increased to 398 exhibitors from 28 countries and regions. Also the size of the venue, initially of 6,900 square metres, increased to 16,000 square metres in 2013.
Green Forum and Green Exhibition are two major components of the MIECF. Through the organisation of a series of forums with different topics, the organizer intends to promote co-operation and exchange between the environmental industry of Macao and its counterparts in the Pan-Pearl River Delta and the international market, especially with the Portuguese-speaking and other emerging countries, in addition to creating business opportunities.
Nine forums were held at the 2013MIECF, where 67 speakers and moderators from 13 countries and regions presented their views and exchanged ideas on environmental issues, attended by more than 2,700 delegates. The level of the speakers is constantly rising, and the participants represented a wide range of sectors.
MIECF´s Green Exhibition aims to attract the active participation of local and overseas environmental companies and organisations, to promote the exchange and co-operation between Macau, the Pan-PRD and the international market, and thus generate green business opportunities for the exhibitors. Last year’s edition of the MIECF attracted the participation, as exhibitors, of more than 400 enterprises from approximately 30 countries and regions. The exhibition venue, with an area of more than 16,000 square metres, covered six exhibition areas, namely, energy efficiency, renewable energy, green building, green transportation, waste and water treatment and green services.
Last year the organiser received 752 environmental projects and products agency proposals from several countries and regions, an increase of 7% over 2012. A total of 846 business matching sessions were held, up 20.51% compared to 2012 (86 business matching sessions were held with the participation of enterprises from Portuguese-speaking Countries). Participants in the business matching sessions were from the Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, the United States, Australia, Taiwan and Portuguese-Speaking Countries, of which 405 sessions were related to hotel procurement and 99 were government-related. During the three-day event last year, 41 co-operation agreements were signed, to fully demonstrate the role played by MIECF, in the promotion of technology development of the environmental industry.
Over the past six years, MIECF was instrumental in the signing of the 155 co-operation projects involving such countries as the Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Portugal, the United States of America, South Korea and Canada, and 90% of these projects have already been implemented. This fully demonstrates that MIECF is steadily progressing and has received recognition from the environmental industry, to gradually become an important platform between the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region and the international environmental industries.
Green Public Day is an open event where the public can grab the opportunity to learn about and participate in international green large-scale events and jointly promote the green and low-carbon life concept.
Last year a total of 3,400 people participated in the Green Public Day-related activities.
