Asia’s growing vulnerability to a warming climate and significant share of greenhouse gas (GHG) makes achieving a net zero future a development imperative in the region. But what steps will countries in Asia need to take to make such a future feasible? To be sure, some of the key changes will be seamless and straightforward; however, many of the shifts necessitate hard sacrifices and overcoming entrenched interests. In fact, there will require building outside-the-box thinking about cross-collaboration among government, industry and other stakeholders. This side event entitled ‘How can Asia Achieving a Net Zero Future in Asia?’ is intended to spotlight the opportunities and challenges to reaching across the aisle to build coalitions for transformative changes within and across countries in Asia. This will need greater collaboration between governments at national, sub-national city-to- city as well as industry and civil society to accelerate transition to a carbon neutral Asia. In examining ways that key stakeholders can work together, the side event will feature how new modes of socio-technological collaboration such as technology co-innovation can facilitate transitions. The side event will have a frank discussion with stakeholders from Asia around on their experiences and views on accelerating to net-zero goals. The key questions that will guide the discussion are:
• How can technology and innovation usher a transformative change in Asia to accelerate towards net-zero targets?
• How can government, both at national and city level strengthen industry collaboration for Asia’s transition to net-zero?
Event Details
Room 9, Tutankhamun, Area C
IGES
Presentation Materials
Session I Ushering a transformative change towards net-zero: Role of Technology and Innovation | |||
16:45 | Opening Remarks and Chair Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, IGES |
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Opening Remarks and Chair R R Rashmi, Distinguished Fellow and Programme Director, Earth Science and Climate Change, TERI |
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Presentations | |||
16:51 |
Net-zero: Shaping Policies for transformative change in Asia Kentaro Tamura, Director, Climate and Energy Division, IGES |
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Technology Co-innovation for transformative change Nanda Kumar Janardhanan, Research Manager & Senior Researcher, Climate and Energy Division, IGES |
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Financing low-carbon technology diffusion in the MSMEs in India Manish Kumar Shrivastava, Senior Fellow, Earth Science and Climate Change, TERI |
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Hard to Abate Sector – GIZ India Jai Kumar Gaurav, Senior Advisor (Climate Change and Circular Economy) at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH |
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Session II Building Coalitions for Transformative Change: Role of Governments and Industry Stakeholders | |||
17:23 | Opening Remarks and Chair Satoshi Watanabe, Ministry of Environment, Japan/ ISHII Naoko, Director for the Center for Global Commons, The University of Tokyo |
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Opening Remarks (Online) Hishamuddin Mohd Ali, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic & International), University of Technology Malaysia |
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17:29 | Coalitions and Partnerships for Accelerating City/Regional-level Transition into Net Zero Emission Chau Loon Wai, UTM-Low Carbon Asia Research Centre, University of Technology Malaysia |
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PaSTI and Innovation Makoto Kato, General Manager/Principal Researcher, OECC |
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Unlocking Collaborative Innovation Lesley Mitchell, Associate Director, Forum for the Future, UK |
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Enabling Net Zero in Cities and Beyond: Role of Analysis Meredydd Evans, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL, Washington, USA |
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Concluding | |||
18:01 |
Concluding Remarks Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, IGES |
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Summing Up/Observation Anna Shpitsberg, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Transformation, U.S. Department of State |
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Q&A |