Concluding Remarks to the Sixth Asian Geothermal Symposium

Abstract

On behalf of the National Advanced Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, this paper gives concluding remarks to the Sixth Asian Geothermal Symposium and acknowledgements to all the supporting organizations and participants. Whether preferable or not, we Asian countries inevitably share the same global environmental issue and the same energy security problem in the current borderless world. Two hot topics are here introduced with the strong expectation. One is that the Russian Cabinet on 30 September 2004 decided to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, ensuring that the Protocol will soon take effect worldwide. The other is that a serious threat of the final oil crisis is closing within the earlier half of the 21-century. These trends inevitably accelerate geothermal development all over the Asia. Efforts like the Sixth Asian Geothermal Symposium could be believed a foresight to such the future Asia.