Organizer

• Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Co-Organizer

• NCSC
• KEI
• GGGI
• MOEJ
• MEE China
• MOEK

Event Overview

As UN Secretary-General, Mr. António Guterres, mentioned at World Cities Day on 31st Oct 2019, more than half the world’s population now lives in urban areas and two thirds will do so by 2050. Cities consume more than two-thirds of the world’s energy, and account for more than 70% of global carbon dioxide emissions.

Three Ministers of China-Japan-Korea agreed to conduct joint research project towards decarbonization at COP22, and then three countries Environmental Ministers agreed on launching the "Joint Research on Cities towards Decarbonization and Sustainable Development" in Joint Communiqué at the 20th Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting among China, Japan and Korea (TEMM20) in June 2018, Suzhou, China.

National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation (NCSC) in China, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Japan, Korea Environment Institute (KEI) in Korea, jointly organized side events at COP23 and COP24, and discussed how we develop research frameworks and outputs for cities towards decarbonization and sustainable development.

This COP25 side event will share the latest research activities, such as "city climate action plan", "good practices on cities towards decarbonization and sustainable development" with several cities in China, Japan and Korea.

Tentative Program

• 13:30 Opening Remarks by Dr. Xu Huaqing (Director General, NCSC)

  Introduction of CJK joint research project and background

• 13:35 Keynote presentation by Prof. Kazuhiko Takeuchi (President, IGES)
  Global trend of cities towards decarbonized and sustainable societies

• 13:45 Main outputs from CJK joint research project in this year (min each)

  • by Dr. Junichi Fujino (Principal Researcher, IGES)
  • by Dr. Sang-In Kang (Chief Research Fellow, KEI)
  • by Dr. Yang Xiu (Senior Researcher, NCSC)

  Highlights of 2nd year’s output of joint research project

• 14:00 Cities’ Voices (e.g. Kyoto, Toyama, Gwangju, Beijing, Shenzhen, Madrid, 5min each)
  
  • What are cities’ challenges on scientific approach including analysis and evaluation?
  • Cities’ expectation on CJK joint research project
• 14:30 Discussions
• 14:40 Closing Remarks by Dr. YOON, Je Yong (President, KEI)
• 14:45 Adjourn

Speaker

• City of Kyoto, Supervising Director of Global Environment and Energy, Mr. Takeshi Shimotsuma
• Toyama City, Senior Advisor for International Business Relations, Office of Strategic Planning and Resilience, Mr. Toshiyuki Yamazoe
• Gwangju City, The president of Gwangju ICEC, Dr. Wontae YOON
• Beijing City, Engineer, Beijing Climate Center., Ms. Sun Fen
• Shenzhen City, Director, Shenzhen Research Center on Climate Change, Dr. Dong WANG
• Madrid City, Deputy Director of Energy and Climate Change, Mr. Juan Azcárate Luxán
• Madrid City, General vice direction of Energy and Climate Change, Ms. Irene Blázquez