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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)
Regional Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Neutrality
The seminar “Regional Opportunities and Challenges for Carbon Neutrality” will be held on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, from 15:00 to 17:45 at Nomura Conference Plaza Nihonbashi, Tokyo. The event will be held in Japanese.
For detailed program and registration, please see the following link (Japanese only).
Fang-Ting Cheng at Nagoya University
Cheng Fang-Ting gave a presentation ‘International Situation on the Promotion of Carbon Neutrality: Focusing on Energy and Economic Security’ at the International Workshop ‘Global Energy Transitions in a Changing World’, co-organised by the Graduate School of International Development and the Institute for Advanced Research, Nagoya University.