2023.12.1 Fri.

10:30 - 11:45

IIASA-JAPAN Joint Project on Cities

Organizer

Ministry of the Environment, IIASA

Co-organizer

IPCC, IGES

Seminar abstract

Abstract

Ministry of the Environment has contributed to IIASA in the past and has conducted joint research on environmental issues.
This year, the IPCC just started its 7th assessment cycle and is scheduled to prepare and publish a "Special Report on Cities and Climate Change".
The Ministry of the Environment has been promoting initiatives on city and demand side, including leading decarbonization areas in Japan and city-to-city coraboration projects as international cooperation, and it is important to contribute to the decarbonization of the global urban sector by appropriately reflecting the advanced examples of such initiatives and results in the scientific findings of the IPCC.
To this end, IIASA and Ministry of the Environment have launched a joint project on cities this year, taking advantage of their cooperative relationship.
Ministry of the Environment and IIASA serve as the secretariat for the PJ, and authors from both sides are selected to hold the authors' meetings. The PJ also includes the participation of the IPCC Vice-Chair and Co-Chairs of AR6/AR7 WG2 as members of the PJ, with a view to providing input to the IPCC AR7 Special Report on Cities.
The results of this year's research will be summarized in a workshop in Tokyo in February 2024, and a seminar open to the public will be held.

Program

Opening Remark -5 min-

Yoshihiro MIZUTANI Director for International Cooperation for Transition to Decarbonization and Sustainable Infrastructur, Global Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment

Perspect on IPCC AR7 cycle / Special Report on Climate Change and Cities -15 min-

Winston Chow IPCC, WG2 Co-chair

IIASA-Japan Research Project on City Transformation -15 min-

Keywan Riahi Director, Energy, Climate and Environment (ECE) Program, IIASA

Moderator (Panel Discussion) -40 min-

Kazuhiko TAKEMOTO President, Overseas Environmental Cooperation Centre (OECC) , Japan

Panelist

• Winston Chow IPCC, WG2 Co-chair
• Keywan Riahi Director, Energy, Climate and Environment (ECE) Program, IIASA
• Leila Niamir Research Scholar, Climate and Environment (ECE) Program, IIASA
• Eric Zusman Research Leader, IGES
• Yoshiki YAMAGATA Professor, Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University

Speakers

In-person

• Kazuhiko TAKEMOTO / President, Overseas Environmental Cooperation Centre (OECC) , Japan
• Winston Chow / IPCC, WG2 Co-chair
• Yoshihiro MIZUTANI / Director for International Cooperation for Transition to Decarbonization and Sustainable Infrastructur, Global Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment
• Leila Niamir Research Scholar, Climate and Environment (ECE) Program, IIASA

Online

• Yoshiki YAMAGATA / Professor, Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University
• Eric Zusman / Research Leader, IGES
• Keywan Riahi / Director, Energy, Climate and Environment (ECE) Program, IIASA

Related Links

• IGES Link on Event Pages