3E has organized international conferences and video link-ups bringing together experts and youth dedicated to the critical issues of our age to engage in a serious discussion of the current crisis.

The 3E Forum

The 3E Forum started among researchers at University of Tsukuba and the research institutes that make up the Tsukuba Cluster in 2007. Experts in the 3E Forum discussed how the researchers in that cluster could improve collaboration and effectively use their technologies to make Tsukuba itself a leading center for environmental sustainability. At almost the same time, Daejeon launched the Daejeon Green Growth Forum, a group of researchers at KAIST and other research institutes in Daejeon, Korea's innovation cluster, to consider the same issues. Those two organizations, along with Tsinghua University, the Zhongguancun cluster around Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the Shenzhen cluster have engaged in a series of international conferences to expand the horizons of 3E in the three countries.

The 3E forum initially began in the R&D cluster of Tsukuba, Japan. Experts in environmental technologies met from 2007 to discuss how to improve the urban environment in their city. The goals of the 3E Forum are:

1. Technological innovations such as renewable energy sources and traffic systems are necessary to conserve energy and achieve carbon dioxide reduction.
2. To realize a low- carbon society, it is important to systematically integrate individual technologies, and to proceed from experimental research to practical use with a public consensus.
3. Forming a partnership of industry, academia, government and citizens, we will create and carry out a concrete plan for the integration of relevant technologies and the development of sustainable social systems, moving from experiment to implementation.
4. To realize low carbon society, we must envision a social revolution wherein it is necessary to change people’s minds, and then promote various activities such as energy conservation. Shifts in our daily life patterns (through the establishment of a circular society of recycling and reuse) must accompany technical innovation.
5. To realize a circular society and low-carbon society, we must make use of our intellectual resources to inculcate and promote environmental leaders who are capable of nourishing a low-carbon mind.
6. We will start by planning a blueprint for a biomass town that takes full advantage of biomass resources. On the other hand, it is important to raise self-sufficiency rate of food and to promote the consumption of locally produced food so as to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
7. Since it takes decades to tackle global warming problems, each generation must keep up its efforts without flagging. Collaboration must extend out through the generations.
8. To realize a global low-carbon society, it is important that we promote collaboration among regions and cities at home and abroad, and share our thinking about the future with others gladly. We must make the low-carbon society seem practical and obtainable.
9. Cities concerned with environmental issues around the world are undertaking projects aimed at global warming issues. We promote collaborations between these cities to share the information and practical strategies, and to disseminate the results cooperatively.

From January of 2009, the Tsukuba 3E forum started to work directly with peers in Korea (such as the Daejeon Green Growth Forum) and China to promote international collaboration. All three Countries will meet in Daejeon in May, 2009 to discuss future cooperation

3E Café

The 3E café is group of young people in Korea, Japan and China (and other nations) who work to advocate and implement a low-carbon society. The 3E Café meets regularly to discuss issues of the environment, energy and economy in Daejeon, Northeast Asia and the world. It includes both experts and laymen and strives for an accurate of environmental issues and a strong commitment to action.