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- Successful Applicants Adopted in the 2012 Study of Countermeasures against Global Warming (Global Warming Mitigation Technology Promotion Project relating to Greenhouse Gas Generated in Non-Energy Fields)
Successful Applicants Adopted in the 2012 Study of Countermeasures against Global Warming (Global Warming Mitigation Technology Promotion Project relating to Greenhouse Gas Generated in Non-Energy Fields)
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) called for the submission of candidate projects for the FY 2012 Study of Countermeasures against Global Warming (Global Warming Mitigation Technology Promotion Project relating to Greenhouse Gas Generated in Non-Energy Fields) in order to consider the establishment of a Bilateral Offsetting Credit Mechanism to appropriately evaluate Japan's contribution to the emission reduction and absorption of greenhouse gas in developing countries utilizing Japanese low-carbon technology, infrastructure, and other techniques. METI hereby announces that 6 projects were successfully adopted on July 26, 2012.
1. FY 2012 Study of Countermeasures against Global Warming (Global Warming Mitigation Technology Promotion Project relating to Greenhouse Gas Generated in Non-Energy Fields)
METI is aiming at the establishment of a mechanism, provisionally called a Bilateral Offsetting Credit Mechanism, to appropriately evaluate Japan's contribution to the emission reduction and absorption of greenhouse gas achieved in developing countries by undertaking projects in those countries for reducing greenhouse gas emissions utilizing Japanese technology and other techniques.
The purpose of the FY 2012 Study of Countermeasures against Global Warming is to study certain issues including: [i] the feasibility of developing a bilateral cooperation with developing countries about countermeasures against greenhouse gas generated in non-energy fields, such as those against deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+); [ii] the probability that reduction of greenhouse gas emissions will be effective; [iii] contribution to establishing a methodology for reducing greenhouse gas emissions; and [iv] ideal ways for establishing other mechanisms, all of which would be conducted for establishing a Bilateral Offsetting Credit Mechanism.
2. Process for adopting applicants and the results
- Invitation period:
- June 4 to June 22, 2012
- Total number of applications:
- 12
- Successful applicants:
- 6 (For details of the projects of the successful applicants, see 3. List of the Successful Applicants below.)
Note 1: Third party-panels examined the possible applicants based on the following criterion, and selected those which marked a high score: [i] significance in terms of negotiations (as a partner country); [ii] significance in terms of technology; [iii] significance in terms of details of policy recommendations; and [iv] feasibility of formulated methodologies.
Note 2: The projects proposed by the successful applicants will be determined as adopted projects after concluding a contract with the applicants.
3. List of the Successful Applicant
| No. | Companies | Project theme (provisional translation) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kanematsu Corporation | A survey for searching for a new REDD+ project and a feasibility study of BOCM in Indonesia |
| 2 | Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. | A feasibility study of a project for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by introducing countermeasures against large-scale peat fire in Indonesia |
| 3 | Chugai Technos Corporation | A project for preventing deforestation by creating alternative agricultural lands, etc. through utilization of coal ash in Indonesia |
| 4 | Jcam Agri Co., Ltd. | Reducing nitrous oxide from agricultural lands by disseminating coated fertilizer in Malaysia and Indonesia |
| 5 | YL Building Co., Ltd. | Improvement of the MRV methodology proposed last fiscal year and a survey for proving the feasibility of a pilot project, aiming at launching a REDD+ project in reserved mangrove forests in Indonesia |
| 6 | Marubeni Corporation | A feasibility study of a REDD+ project in Indonesia |
Release Date
July 26, 2012
Division in Charge
Global Environmental Affairs Office, Environmental Policy Division, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau