• 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.

• 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

• 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 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.

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