IPCC Symposium "Learning the Latest Findings on Climate Change Mitigation from Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC" to be Held

1. Outline of the event

Date and time

May 19, 2022 (Thur.), 13:00-17:10 (Reception starts at 12:30)

Format

• Venue: Iino Hall and Conference Center, (Iino Building 4F to 6F, 2-1-1 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo <Map>
• Online: Registered participants will receive a link to join online.

Organizers and co-organizers

Organizer: METI
Co-organizer: Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)

Languages

Japanese/English (simultaneous interpretation available)

2. How to apply

Please apply via the RITE website (in Japanese).
It is free to participate, but applications will be closed as soon as the capacity is reached.

3. Main details of the symposium

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) serves as the source of the latest scientific knowledge on climate change. It released the Working Group III (WGIII) contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), its latest report on climate change mitigation, in April of this year. The report follows the Working Group I (WGI) contribution released last August (The Physical Science Basis) and the Working Group II (WGII) contribution released in February of this year (Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability), and provides a comprehensive assessment on climate change mitigation based on the latest scientific knowledge. The purpose of this IPCC symposium is to give an overview of the AR6 WGIII Report, and to spread the latest knowledge on climate change mitigation.

For this symposium, Professor Jim Skea, Co-chair of WGIII of the IPCC, who was responsible for compiling the contribution, has been invited from the UK to give a lecture on the message to civil society and the future of climate change described in the Assessment Report. There will be lectures by two of the Japanese writers who worked on the contribution, Akimoto Keigo (RITE, main author of chapter 17 of the SPM, "Accelerating the Transition in the Context of Sustainable Development") and Morita Kanako (Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, main author of chapter 15, "Investment and Finance"). In addition, experts in various fields of energy, industry, and finance have been invited to hold a panel discussion titled "How to Tackle Global Mitigation in the Near-, Med-, and Long-Terms Based on the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC."

We look forward to greeting many participants interested in the IPCC Assessment Report and climate change mitigation.

Program

12:30	Reception starts
13:00	Opening and address by the organizer: Kihara Shinichi (Deputy Director-General, METI [In charge of environmental issues]) Address by the co-organizer: Dr. Yamaji Kenji (President, RITE)
13:10	Keynote Speech "IPCC’s Mitigation Assessment: Conclusions from AR6 and Future Challenges" Jim Skea (Co-Chair of Working Group III of the IPCC)
13:50	Lecture: " Complementary views of the IPCC WGIII report and perspectives from recent global energy situation " Akimoto Keigo (Group Leader/Chief Researcher, RITE)
14:20	Lecture: " The need of transformation of societal systems to achieve the 1.5°C "        Morita Kanako (Senior Researcher, Climate Change Laboratory, Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute)
14:50	Break
15:05	Panel Discussion Theme: "How to Tacle Global Mitigation in the Near-,  Med-, and Long Terms Based on the Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC" Moderator: Arima Jun (Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo) Panelists: (In alphabetical order) Akimoto Keigo (Group Leader/Chief Researcher, RITE) Jim Skea (Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III) Hayashi Reiko (Director and Deputy President, BofA Securities Japan, Co., Ltd.) Morita Kanako (Head Researcher, Climate Change Laboratory, Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Forest Research and Management Organization) Tezuka Hiroyuki (Fellow, (Global Environment), JFE Steel Corporation) Yamashita Yukari (Managing Director, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) Yonekawa Takahito (Deputy General Manager of the Decarbonization Business Department and Group Manager of the Technical Development Group, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd.)
17:05	Closing remarks: Honjo Takashi (Senior Managing Director, RITE)

Related links

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to Release Working Group III Contribution to Sixth Assessment Report (April 4, 2022)

Division in Charge

Global Environmental Affairs Office, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau