Welcome to the website of the research project “Building Climate Change Governance through Multistakeholder Cooperation: The Case of Low-Carbon Hydrogen Projects”. This project is supported by the Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research: Co-Creation of Academic Knowledge, JSPS.
What's New
Forty-Second ITF Public Conference
Tomoko Ishikawa gave a presentation titled "Social License to Operate and Investor Responsibility" at the Forty-Second ITF Public Conference: Illegality in International Investment Law, hosted by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law.
Research Seeds Seminar
Tomoko Ishikawa, Cheng Fang-Ting and Ying Sun gave lectures at the Research Seeds Seminar "International Efforts to Achieve Carbon Neutrality" hosted by the Nagoya University.
Taiwan Energy by Cheng Fang-Ting
Cheng Fang-Ting gave a presentation titled 'Taiwan's Energy Policy Toward Carbon Neutrality' regarding the status of hydrogen energy development in Taiwan at the "Energy and International Politics Study Meeting, Center for Global Innovation Studies, Toyo University.
A View from UNCITRAL
Tomoko Ishikawa gave a panel speech at the UNCITRAL Colloquium on the Law of International Trade for a Greener Future (panel topic "Better Settlement of Climate Change Disputes: A View from UNCITRAL").
Positing that disagreements between diverse actors have hindered effective climate change mitigation measures, our multidisciplinary study aims to propose ways to overcome division and fragmentation in climate change governance. Focusing on low-carbon hydrogen projects, we present ways of building effective and sustainable climate change governance through multi-stakeholder cooperation. In this study, experts from law, political science, economics, business administration, and chemical engineering collaborate in investigating climate change governance from the following five perspectives:
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Climate Change and International Politics;
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Climate Change and Trade;
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Corporate Climate Responsibility and Civil Society;
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Climate Change and Corporate Management;
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Climate-change-related Technologies and CC(U)S.
We aim to propose a comprehensive institutional design that fosters inclusive cooperation between various stakeholders such as states, business, NGO‘s, citizens, and experts, focusing on low-carbon hydrogen projects. This design encompasses the issues of low-carbon hydrogen certification standards, trade and technology transfer rules, codes of conduct for countries and companies, models for shared value creation, and the international standardization of technology.
