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Mauritius Presentation
Tomoko Ishikawa and Rajesh Sharma spoke at the Mauritius Bar Association Conference 2025, 'Anchoring Mauritius as the Legal and Financial Gateway to Africa', participating in the panel 'Independence and Integrity of Adjudicators vs. Law Practitioners'. They also introduced the revised Mediation Rules and the Protocol on Climate-Change Dispute Mediation.
Mauritius Mediation Rules
Tomoko Ishikawa and Rajesh Sharma, commissioned by the Mauritius Arbitration and Mediation Center (MARC), revised the Center’s Mediation Rules.
The new Mediation Rules are the first domestic mediation rules to be accompanied by a protocol on climate-change dispute mediation.
Please refer to the revised Mediation Rules and the Protocol on Climate-Change Dispute Mediation at the link below.
3rd Carbon Neutral Symposium
"The 3rd Carbon Neutral Co-Creation Symposium – Realising ESG Management and Accelerating the Use of Hydrogen" was held on November 10, 2025 at Nagoya University.
Tomoko Ishikawa delivered the keynote speech, “Low-Carbon Hydrogen Projects and Civil Society: Lessons from Climate Change and Energy Transition-Related Disputes”. Koyo Norinaga served as the moderator of the panel discussion in the first session.
For event details, please see the following link (in Japanese).
Workshop Jp-Kr-Aus
Workshop ‘Social Science Challenges for the Dissemination and Expansion of Local Clean Energy Production Using New Technologies’ was held on 10 November at Nagoya University.
The workshop convened Japanese, Korean and Australian experts from law, policy, engineering, and social sciences to discuss the governance of hydrogen trade, technological innovation, and social acceptance.
JERA Visit
Members of the H2Governance project, joined by guest researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia) and Ajou University (Suwon, Republic of Korea), visited the Hekinan Thermal Power Station in Hekinan City, Aichi Prefecture.
The power station, operated by JERA Co., Inc. and IHI Corporation, is the venue of the world’s first demonstration testing of large-volume fuel ammonia substitution at a large-scale commercial coal-fired thermal power plant.
Asia-Pacific Perspectives Report
The seminar “Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Climate Change and the Energy Transition: Reflections from Malaysia, Australia and Japan” took place on October 2, 2025 in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
To read a column on the event, please see the following link.
Asia-Pacific Perspectives
The seminar “Asia-Pacific Perspectives on Climate Change and the Energy Transition: Reflections from Malaysia, Australia and Japan” will be held on Thursday, October 2, 2025, from 9:30 to 18:00 at Seminar Room, Level 2, Dayak Cultural Foundation, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The event will be held in English.
For detailed program and registration, please see the following link.
Regional Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Neutrality – Report
The seminar “Regional Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Neutrality” was held at Nomura Conference Plaza Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
More than 90 participants attended the event, including representatives of academia, industry, and local governments.
Trump 2.0
Kentaro Tamura gave a presentation at the Japan National Press Club on the upcoming shifts in U.S. energy and environmental policy.
Cheng Fang-Ting Mondai to Kenkyu En
Cheng Fang-Ting published an article in Mondai to Kenkyu, 53(4) (‘Japan’s ‘Economic Security’ and Policy Promotion in the Field of Decarbonization and Renewable Energy’, pp. 75-111)