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
Motohiro KONDOH submitted an article to Nikkei GX.
Motohiro Kondoh published an article in Nikkei GX ("Hydrogen Society Promotion Act to Focus on 'Blue Hydrogen' for Now").
Social Licence to Operate in Investment Disputes: Suggestions for Energy Transition
Tomoko Ishikawa presented "Social Licence to Operate in Investment Disputes: Suggestions for Energy Transition" at the The Japanese Association of World Law 2024 Annual Research Conference (Nagoya, Japan).
International Symposium
In collaboration with the Institute of Innovation for Future Society (Nagoya University), an international symposium entitled "On the Road to Net Zero: Technical and Social Issues of Clean Hydrogen" was held at the Nagoya University Noyori Conference Hall and online, attracting nearly 200 participants.
Tomoko Ishikawa gave a presentation at UNCITRAL
Tomoko Ishikawa presented "The 'UNFCCC' Model as a model for the Multilateral Instrument on ISDS Reform" at the 7th intersessional meeting of UNCITRAL Working Group III (Palais d'Egmont, Brussels).
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.
