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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.
Ministerial Meeting
Tomoko Ishikawa took part in the Ministerial Meeting & 47th Session of the International Energy Charter Advisory Panel (Brussels, Belgium) as a discussant at Panel III ‘Perspective on Energy Transition Disputes under the Modernised Energy Charter Treaty’.
International Symposium on Green Innovation
Keisaku Higashida presented the article ‘Does Environmental Policy Induce Changes in Cross-border Green Knowledge Flows?’, co-authored by Yasuhiro Arai and Isamu Yamauchi, at the International Symposium on Green Innovation, Green Technology and Green Culture, co-hosted by Kyoto Women’s University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Doshisha University and Kyoto University.
Kentaro Tamura at Nikkei
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.
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.