Mr.

Junichi FUJINO

Junichi Fujino ([email protected]) received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, focusing on analysing the world’s energy system in the year 2100 (SDG 7). In 2000, he began his work at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and engaged in “Low Carbon Society Scenarios Research Project towards 2050” in Japan and Asia. He has participated in the government’s committee for Japan’s greenhouse gas emission reduction toward the 2015 Paris Agreement (SDG 13). Since the autumn of 2010, he has been a committee member for promoting the "FutureCity” initiative and has supported local governments in sustainable city planning. He has also served as a member for the “Urban Planning and Sustainability Committee” under the Tokyo 2020 Olympics Organizing Committee, as well as the Chair of the “Decarbonisation Working Group”. Nowadays he has served as the acting chair of “Decarbonizing Leading Areas” by MoEJ since Jan 2022 (SDG 11). Currently, his focus is on supporting Asian countries/local governments in efforts to decarbonise and achieve the SDGs (SDG 17).
He has continued to join Climate COP since COP11 in 2005, UN High Level Political Forum in 2018 when he launched the first batch of Voluntary Local Reviews for Shimokawa town, Toyama city, Kitakyushu city, Biodiversity COP15 in 2022, and UN climate and SDGs synergy conference in 2019. He has been an IGES full-time researcher since April 2019.