Mr. Takahashi obtained his master’s degree from Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo in Japan on the monitoring of land cover change in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. After serving as a consultant at the consulting company which provided CDM development services etc, he joined IGES in 2009. He started his work on the CDM/JI capacity building programme in Asian countries. He currently engages MRV programs for Joint Crediting Mechanism and research on voluntary offset credit systems, emissions trading systems, and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. So far, he has been in charge of China, Indonesia, Thailand, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines and Myanmar. From 2013 to 2015, he gave lectures on global environmental issues and climate change as a part-time lecturer at College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University.
