Start-up of Japan-UK
Joint Research Project

2006.2.16
The 1st Workshop
2006.6.13-16
The 2nd Workshop
2007.6.13-15
The 3rd Workshop
2008.2.13-15

Group photo on 2008.2.13
"Roadmap to a Low-Carbon World''
The 3rd Workshop / Symposium of Japan-UK Joint Research Project
Expert Workshop
2008.2.13-14
Symposium
2008.2.15
Outcome Related information
Objectives
  • The 3 days meeting consisted of 2 days Expert Workshop and 1 day Symposium. Those were performed to consider achieved strategies of LCS. Those outcome will be offered to G8.

  • In Expert Workshop for the first 2 days, the draft discussed in Panel Discussion in Symposium was made. Presentation for 15 minutes and 1-2 of Question were made.

  • In Day 3 Symposium, 3 cases of High-level speech was announced in the morning. The outcome of Expert Workshop for 2 days was announced in the afternoon. These were asked audience with using electric voting system.

    Awareness regarding CO2 reduction of participants was probably relatively high right from the start. Regarding the level of worldwide CO2 reduction by 2050, a majority of participants responded that a reduction of over about 50% was required.
    When the question was put to the audience again after the session, results showed an increase in the number of participants who considered a higher reduction level to be feasible. However, the results also showed that the audience remained insufficiently convinced as a whole on the feasibility of achieving a level of CO2 required for the abatement of climate change risks and assurance of a sustainable future.

  • These outcomes were gathered as Call for Action / Executive summary / Full report / and other things to input to the process of G8 and UNFCCC.

Timetable of the 3rd LCS Workshop
  Feb. 13 (Wed)
Expert Workshop (Day1)
  Feb. 14 (Thu)
Expert Workshop (Day2)
  Feb. 15 (Fri)
Symposium (Day3)
8:30- Registration 8:30- Registration    
9:00- Orientation
Dr. Shuzo Nishioka
Prof. Jim Skea
Dr. Naoya Tsukamoto
Dr. Junichi Fujino
9:00-











10:20-

10:40-
Plenary session (2)
Key-note speech
Group 1: Dr. Yuichi Morigichi
Group 2: Prof. P.R. Shukla
Group 3: Dr. Emma Howard Boyd
Group 4: Mr. Masayuki Sasanouchi





Refreshment break

Parallel session (2)
Group1 / Group2 / Group3 / Group4
9:00- Registration
9:30- Welcome address
Minister of the Environment, Japan
UK Ambassador
9:40-




10:20-

10:40-



11:20-

11:40-
Plenary session (1)
Key-note speech
Group 1: Mr. Charles Secrett
Group 2: Dr. Rae Kwon Chung

Refreshment break

Key-note speech
Group 3: Mr. Takejiro Sueyoshi
Group 4: Mr. Christopher Beauman

Photo Session

Parallel session (1)
Group1 / Group2 / Group3 / Group4
9:50- Introduction
Dr. Shuzo Nishioka & Prof. Jim Skea
10:10- High level speech 1
Dr. Emil Salim

High level speech 2
Mr. Mitsuhiko Yamashita

High level speech 3
Mr. David Warrilow
12:30- Lunch 12:00- Lunch 11:40- Lunch

13:30-



14:40-

15:10-





16:30-

17:00

Parallel session (1) (cont.)
Group1 / Group2 / Group3 / Group4

Refreshment Break

Interactive session (1)





Post Parallel session (1)

Adjourn
13:00-


13:40-


15:00-

15:30-


16:00-





18:00
Parallel session (2)(cont.)
Group1 / Group2 / Group3 / Group4

Interactive session (2)


Post Parallel session (2)

Refreshment break


Overall session
Group1 / Group2 / Group3 / Group4

Closing Remarks
Dr. Shuzo Nishioka

Adjourn
13:00-






15:00-


15:30-



16:00-




17:00
Panel Discussion
(Explain key messages and action plans explored during Expert Workshop)
30min from each topic


Overall Discussion


Closing Remarks
President of NIES


Final session of Expert Workshop
(Call for Action and Executive Summary)

Adjourn
 
Structure of the Expert Workshop / Symposium
 
A two-day expert workshop will be followed by a one-day symposium:
Expert Workshop
  • The expert workshop (13th-14th February) will explore the roadmap to a lowcarbon world through presentations and small-group discussions.

  • Around 60 experts will be invited. These will include low-carbon society researchers; officials at national, sub-national and city level who are dealing with city planning, transportation policy, technological development, assistance to developing countries, and climate change; business and financial experts and NGOs.

  • The expert workshop consisted of two series of key-note speeches, parallel sessions, interactive sessions and post-parallel sessions.

  • Four key issues were discussed in the parallel sessions.

    Topic1: Behavior change and its impact on delivering LCSs
    Topic2: Delivering LCS through Sustainable Development
    Topic3: Enabling LCSs: Investment
    Topic4: Barriers and opportunities: Approaches to sensitive LCS sectors

  • Expert Workshop for the first 2 days made the draft discussed in Panel Discussion in Symposium. Presentation for 15 minutes and 1-2 of Question

Symposium
  • The symposium (15th), will be addressed by high-level speakers in the morning. Discussion points explored at the expert workshop will be presented by panel discussion in the afternoon ? the audience will be able to interact using hand-held electronic opinion counters.

  • Around two hundred people, who have some relation to and/or are stakeholders in the topic, will be invited.

The third workshop outputs
"the report and executive summary" and the "call for action" as well as a summary of conclusions from the whole workshop series was discussed among the experts in the final session on the third day before being finalized by the international Steering Committee.

These can be found at 'Outcome' page.
 
Image figure of the flow from workshop to symposium
 
Background to the workshop series

The Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MoEJ) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the UK (Defra) are jointly promoting a scientific research project toward achieving a Low-Carbon Society (LCS) by 2050. The National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research are conducting research activities in line with this goal. We organized the 1st LCS workshop in June 2006 (Tokyo) and the 2nd LCS workshop in June 2007 (London).

The report of the first workshop was presented to the G8 Dialogue meeting in Mexico in October 2006. The Executive Summary was distributed to Parties at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Nairobi in November 2006.

These can be found at the website http://2050.nies.go.jp/japan-uk/1st/.

The report of the second workshop was distributed to Parties at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Bali in December 2007.

These can be found at the website http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/TheMeetingPlace/Activities/Activities2007/0706AchievingSustainableLCS.aspx.

 
Contact
  Junichi Fujino,
Senior Researcher,
Center for Global Environment Research (CGER), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES),
16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506 Japan.
Tel: +81-29-850-2504, Fax: +81-29-850-2572
E-mail: lcs@nies.go.jp

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