While Japan and the EU, by signing the Green Alliance agreement, have committed themselves to an economic trajectory aimed at cancelling net carbon emissions, a wide range of responses to the climate emergency are already being proposed: regulations, technological innovations and financial tools. This was the field that the 6th Waseda Brussels Conference ‘Environmental Studies for Carbon Neutrality’ set out to investigate.
Against this backdrop, the international conference ‘Environmental Studies for Carbon Neutrality’, organised on Thursday 27 November by the Waseda University Brussels Office (WBO), presented the state of the art in policy approaches and economic research into carbon pricing, the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and sustainability financing schemes.
In addition, and on the basis of the regulatory and macro-economic elements that were described and analysed during the day, from a scientific point of view, but also taking into account questions from the business world and decision-makers, the conference also provided an opportunity to highlight the role of universities in this context. A special session was devoted to presenting the resources deployed by universities in terms of research and teaching, as well as their managerial approaches to sustainability issues.
With 80 participants, this 6th annual WBO conference (also available online, YouTube: https://urls.fr/ONfDjB) confirmed the key role of Waseda University’s Brussels office in promoting high-level policy dialogue and joint research projects between the EU and Japan.
