Institute for Advanced Social SciencesWaseda University

“Japanese Climate Policy Toward Carbon Neutrality”

The GX Promotion Law was passed in May, and various initiatives such as carbon pricing are now starting to take shape to reach carbon neutrality. On Tuesday 29 August as part of the Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AAERE) 2023 Conference, a panel discussion will be held with representatives from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of the Environment, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and Boston Consulting.

Details on the panel discussion are provided below. Your participation is greatly welcomed.

○Speakers/title of speech

1.Nobuyoshi WAKABAYASHI (Director, Environmental Economy Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
“Pro-Growth Carbon Pricing Concept and its implementation”

2.Nobuhiro KINO (Director, Office for Regional Decarbonization Policy, Ministry of the Environment)
“Challenges towards decarbonized society from local communities”

3.Noriko ADACHI (Director for Emissions Trading, Climate Change Division, Bureau of Environment – Tokyo Metropolitan Government)
“Tokyo Cap-and-Trade Program ~Efforts Toward a ‘Zero Emission Tokyo’~”

4.Yoshihisa NIWA (Boston Consulting Group Managing Director and Senior Partner)
“Global trends in climate change and the movements of Japanese companies”

○Date/Place/Language

Date: Tuesday, 29 August 2023, 16:30-18:00

Place: Room 201, Bldg 14, Waseda University (Hybrid session with online participation)

Language: Japanese (with simultaneous interpretation in English)

○General moderator/coordinator

Toshi. H. Arimura (Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics and Director of the Research Institute for Environment Economics and Management (RIEEM), Waseda University)

Moderator (panel discussion):
Makoto Sugino (Professor, Faculty of Sustainability Studies, Hosei University and RIEEM Fellows, Waseda University)

○Registration

Registration: Please register using the application form below.

*When registering, please indicate whether you wish to participate on-site or online and whether you require simultaneous translation from Japanese to English.

*Please make sure to register only once.

○Target

Target: Open to all (Policy Session only)

○Organizer

Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AAERE), Research Institute for Environment Economics and Management at Waseda University (RIEEM)

○Co-organizers

Institute for Advanced Social Sciences at Waseda University (IASS), Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS), Waseda Center for a Carbon Neutral Society (WCANS), Advanced Collaborative Research Organization for Smart Society at Waseda University (ACROSS)

○Inquiries/Notes

＜Inquiries＞
Congress Secretariat: [email protected]

＜Notes＞

・This session will be filmed, and participants in the venue may be appear in the recordings. Please note that these may be shown in the internet streaming on the day of the event.

・The program is subject to change.

・Please note that, if the number of participants exceeds the venue capacity, online participation may be required.