The Seventh International Conference on Carbon Recycling 2025 Held

1. Overview

The International Conference on Carbon Recycling is an international forum aimed at reaffirming the commitment of participating countries to the development and demonstration of carbon recycling technologies, which are recognized as key to achieving carbon neutrality, with a view to their future social implementation, and at strengthening cooperative relationships among countries.

At this seventh conference, panel discussions were held on the following themes: [i] cooperation on carbon recycling to contribute to CO2 reductions across industrial society, [ii] pathways of carbon recycling technologies towards 2030, and [iii] business models for forming the carbon recycling market.

The conference reaffirmed the importance of promoting the development of carbon recycling technologies to create markets through cost reduction and visualization of environmental value, while also emphasizing the need to establish systems for appropriately evaluating such environmental value and to enhance international collaboration in sharing technologies, funding, and expertise. Furthermore, the conference discussed the importance of expanding the production scale, lowering the procurement cost of CO2 as a raw material, and improving efficiency throughout the entire supply chain as specific measures for cost reduction, as well as the essential need to reduce initial investment and operational costs to build sustainable business models, which are crucial for the social implementation of carbon recycling.

As a side event, a networking occasion was held between Japanese university students and international experts to foster the next generation of carbon recycling leaders. A poster exhibition was also organized to showcase Japan’s industry-academia-government initiatives in CCU/carbon recycling technologies to the global audience.

Japan will continue to accelerate efforts to strengthen international cooperation toward the social implementation of carbon recycling, which is essential for achieving carbon neutrality.

2. Major participants

• Mr. Kihara Shinichi, Director General for Energy and Environmental Policy, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI
• Mr. Saito Tamotsu, Chairman, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
• Dr. Naser Odeh, Principal Fellow in the Climate and Sustainability Team, King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC)
• Dr. Nuki Agya Utama, Director for Energy Policy and Head of the Asia Zero Emission Center (AZEC), Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)
• Dr. Timur GÜL, Head, Energy Technology Policy Division, International Energy Agency (IEA) (video message)
• Mr. Mitsuoka Tsugio, Chairperson, Carbon Recycling Fund Institute (video message)

Related Material

• Summary Document of the 7th International Conference on Carbon Recycling 2025(PDF:273KB)

Related Link

• 7th International Conference on Carbon Recycling 2025

Division in Charge

International Strategy on Energy Resources Office, Natural Resources and Fuel Department, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy