Pre-Conference of The Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 2021

Challenges ofDecarbonization Policies andTechnological Innovations
toward Carbon NeutralSocieties in East Asia
Date:
14:00-18:00,
September 24 (Fri.), 2021
(Japanese Standard Time)

Venue:
Web-Conference by ZOOM
Access address:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/3134265387?
pwd=NWVSS1hLV3BLdkw4enNhZUJabk1EQT09* If you would like to attend the conference,
please email to Soocheol Lee(slee@meijo-u.ac.jp)
with your full name, affiliation and email addressby September 20, 2021.

Background of the conferenceThe roadmap toward decarbonization society in East Asia has begun
as Japan, China and Korea declared carbon-neutral last year. This
movement will inevitably leads to carbon neutrality announcements
in other East Asian nations. In order to achieve this ambitious target
in the region, it is crucial that well-designed decarbonization policies
are in place and there are coordinated supports for revolutionary
decarbonization technologies among different sectors.

Conference schedulethe Host: Soocheol Lee(Professor, Meijo University)

the Chair: Shunsuke Managi(Professor, Kyushu University)

13:45

Zoom Open

14:00 〜 14:10

Opening Remark
By Soocheol Lee (Professor, Meijo University)

14:10 〜 14:40"Challenges of Decarbonization Policies and Technological Innovation
toward Carbon Neutral Society in Japan"
By Toshihiko Masui (Head, National Institute for Environmental Studies)

14:40 〜 15:10"Challenges of Decarbonization Policies and Technological Innovation
toward Carbon Neutral Society in Korea"
By Jeongin Kim (Professor, Chung-Ang University, Korea)

15:10 〜 15:40"Challenges of Decarbonization Policies and Technological Innovation
toward Carbon Neutral Society in Taiwan"
By Daigee Shaw (Research Fellow, The Institute of Economics, AcademiaSinica)

15:40 〜 16:10"Challenges of Decarbonization Policies and Technological Innovation
toward Carbon Neutral Society in China"
By Jun Pang (Professor, Renmin University of China)

16:20 〜 17:35

Panel Discussion
Panelists: Hongbo Ren (Professor, Shanghai University of Electric Power)
Yongsung Cho (Professor, Korea Univeristy)
Shih-Mo Lin (Professor, Chung Yuan Christian University)
Soocheol Lee (Professor, Meijo Univeristy)
Hector Pollitt (Chief Economist, Cambridge Econometrics)

17:35 〜 18:00

Q&A from Floor

Closing Remark

By Shunsuke Managi (Professor, Kyushu University)*This conference is supported by Japan Society of the Promotion of Science.
*Contact Information: Soocheol Lee, Tel:+81-52-832-1151, Email:slee@meijo-u.ac.jp

Pre-Conference of The Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 2021

Challenges ofDecarbonization Policies andTechnological Innovations
toward Carbon Neutral
Societies in East Asia
The purpose of the conference
We invite leading academics of East Asia to exchange ideas on how to effectively design decarbonization policies and support
decarbonization technologies toward carbon neutrality in the region. Furthermore we will discuss policy cooperation and strategy
in East Asia to maximize the benefits and minimize the costs associating with carbon neutral climate policies. Successful policy
design, supporting of new technologies, and cooperation in East Asia will not only lead to climate neutrality but will also
strengthen the future industries and the businesses in this region.

the Hostthe Chair
Dr. Soocheol Lee is a Professor of Meijo University. He
graduated from Seoul National University and got Ph.D degree
at Kyoto University. He has leaded Research Group of East Asia
Environmental Policy Studies since 2002 and has written many
books and papers on `Low Carbon, Sustainable Future in EastAsia` with this research group members. He is currently a Vice
President of the Asian Association of Environmental andResource Economics.

Dr.Shunsuke Managi is the Distinguished Professor &Dr. Toshihiko Masui is Head of Social Systems Division,Dr. Jeong-In Kim is a Professor of Chung-Ang University,Korea. He s got a Ph. D degree from the University ofMinnesota. Among awards and acclamations, recentachievements include an excellent Environmental Protection
Award from the Ministry of Environment (2001, 2017), andRecognition Award for the Environment Protection from thePrime Minister (2010). Now he is one of “Carbon NeutralCommittee under President from 2021- 2023.

Dr. Daigee Shaw, Research Fellow at the Institute ofEconomics, Academia Sinica. He had served as President ofChung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, President of theAsian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics,and President of the Taiwan Association of Environmental andResource Economics. Dr. Shaw has published many articles inseveral professional journals, including American Economic
Review, Journal of Econometrics, etc..

Dr. Jun Pang got his Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource

Dr. Hongbo Ren is a professor of Energy and Mechanical

Dr. Yongsung Cho is a professor of Department of Food &Resource Economics, Korea University, received his Ph.D. fromthe University of Minnesota at St. Paul, USA. He was apresident at the Korea Energy Economics Institute. Currently, hehas served as a member of the Presidential Committee onCarbon Neutrality.His research interest is on energy and climate
policy in Korea in comparative context, with particular reference
to East Asia including China and Japan.

Dr. Shih-Mo Lin is currently a distinguished professor at theDepartment of International Business of the Chung Yuan
Christian University in Taiwan. He is also the Director of theCenter for Applied Economic Modeling at CYCU. His researchinterests are multi-regional input-output modeling, computable
general equilibrium modeling, and macro-econometric modelingof economy-environment-energy issues.

Hector Pollitt is the Chief Economist of Cambridge
Econometrics and a fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy
and Natural Resource Governance at the University of Cambridge.
He has contributed to several high-level policy assessments in theEU over the past decade, including the greenhouse gas reduction
targets for 2030 and 2050. He has also worked with the ResearchGroup of East Asia Environmental Policy Studies for almost tenyears, co-editing two of the books it has produced.

Director of Urban Institute at the Kyushu University. He is adirector for Inclusive Wealth Report, a lead author for theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a
coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), an editor of“Economics of Disasters and Climate Change” ,“Environmental Economics and Policy Studies” .

Speakers
National Institute for Environmental Studies. He received
doctoral degree from Osaka University. He has worked atNational Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) since 1998.
He is in charge of the AIM (Asia-Pacific Integrated Model)
project in NIES. He is a lead author of the AR6 of IPCC WG3and Visiting Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Economics from Renmin University of China, at present he is a
professor at the School of Environment and Natural Resources ofRenmin University of China, and currently his main research
field is Climate Change Economics. He had short-term working
experiences as a visiting professor or a researcher at Cornell
Unviersity, Kyoto University, and the World Bank in Washington
DC during past ten years.

PanelistsEngineering, Shanghai University of Electric Power. He got thePhD degree in Environmental Engineering at The University ofKitakyushu in 2009. His current research interests include planand design of distributed and integrated energy system,simulation and analysis of urban energy and environmentalsystem, etc.

* If you would like to attend the conference, please email to Soocheol Lee (slee@meijo-u.ac.jp) with your full name, affiliation and email address by September 20,2021
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