Tsukuba 3E Forum Declaration 2008
June 1, 2008
The 2nd Tsukuba 3E Forum Meeting
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded in its 4th Assessment Report published inFebruary 2007 that the global warming is steadily in progress and the cause of that is "very likely" to be humanactivities. At the G8 Summit held in Heiligendamm, Germany in June 2007, Japan proposed the "Cool Earth 50"
Initiative aiming at 50% reduction of green house gas (GHG) emission by 2050. Furthermore, at the 13thConference of Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP13) held in Bali,
Indonesia in December 2007, the GHG reduction of each country was seriously discussed. The climate change andthe global warming problems are now highlighted as the important issues that should be steered internationally.
Under these circumstances, we held the 1st meeting of the Tsukuba 3E Forum in December 2007 and dared todeclare 50% reduction of CO2 emission in Tsukuba by 2030, and we try to build up a low carbon society system,"3E City Tsukuba Model", that can be applied to any middle sized cities in Japan and overseas.
After the 1st meeting, we have discussed the availability of individual technologies and their integrated system forreducing GHG emission in several task forces created under the Tsukuba 3E Forum. In addition, we have also been
discussing the transforming values and life-style, environmental education and establishing partnership between
sectors comprising the City of Tsukuba to challenge the issues. In this 2nd Forum meeting, industries, academia,
public administration and citizens gathered, identified important issues and deepened the discussion to create
concrete action plan to achieve our goal.
We have invited guest speakers who are directly involved in tackling the global warming and environmental
problems in cities outside Japan and asked them to share the history, present situation and future prospects. We
have obtained valuable information for our future activities such as the content of the practice and the process ofmaking measures, and have learned that strengthening international collaboration with these cities outside Japan
will be quite useful for promoting activities and remedial measures to achieve low carbon society.
Based on the discussions and agreements made in the Forum meeting, following activities for creating the action
plan will be promoted with the collaboration of universities, research institutes, organizations, industries andcitizens related to Ibaraki prefecture, City of Tsukuba and Tsukuba Science City;
1. In order to achieve the high goal of carbon dioxide reduction, the technological innovations such as development
in renewable energy sources and traffic systems are necessary in contributing to energy conservation and low
carbon consumption. Since there exist accumulation of leading advanced technologies for each of these fields inTsukuba, the universities and public/private research institutes that have close ties with Tsukuba Science City
are strengthening the collaboration and promoting the further technological innovation.
2. With a view to realize low carbon society, it is important to systematically integrate individual technologies, andto proceed from experimental study towards the practical use in a broad perspective and on a public consensus.
It is quite important to involve citizens in addition to industries, academia and government. Based on theactivities of the Tsukuba 3E Forum and the Tsukuba Environmental City Promoting Committee, by which the"Tsukuba Environmental Style Plan" was compiled, we are establishing partnership between universities,
public/private research institutes, industries, organizations, citizens, students and the municipality.

3. Under the partnership of industries, academia, government and citizens, we will create and carry out the concrete
plan for a series of process ranging from the integration of various technologies, development of social systems,
to demonstration, experiment and practical use in the field of the City of Tsukuba. We will lead our country andthe world by establishing the model for application and promotion of environmental technologies and socialsystems that includes the cycle of monitoring, evaluation and review in their implementation process.
4. To realize low carbon society, like a social revolution, it is necessary to change people’s mind, and then promotevarious activities in energy savings, especially the nourishing of circular society and change of life-style, inparallel to the technical innovation. Together with the Tsukuba Environmental City Promotion Committee, we
promote research activities to establish citizen's way of life pivoted on future as a philosophy, and presentappropriate relationship between human beings and the nature, which is now being asked as the environmental
problems are becoming more serious.
5. To realize circular society and low carbon society, we will develop environmental leaders capable of nourishing
low carbon mind by exploiting intellectual resources of Tsukuba Science City, and actively and continuously
promote activities to cultivate an awareness of the issue both in school and society. Furthermore, we extract
points of argument and investigate the specific measures to achieve healthy and cultural life of citizens in lowcarbon society.
6. We will start planning a framework of biomass town that conducts sound utilization of biomass resources. On theother hand, it is important to raise self-sufficiency rate of food and to promote consuming locally produced foodin view of reducing carbon dioxide emission along with transportation and securing safe and reliable food. We
investigate practical ways of effective land use.
7. Since it takes decades to tackle global warming problems, each generation has to play its role steadily, and thecollaboration beyond generation is necessary. We promote the collaboration among generations in addition tothe collaboration between organizations conducting the program to realize low carbon society in Tsukuba.
8. To realize world scale low carbon society, it is important to promote collaboration among regions and cities athome and abroad, and to share the mind toward the future and the practical means of realizing low carbonsociety. We are aiming at the close collaboration among industries, academia, government and citizens
developing in Tsukuba Science City as "Tsukuba Model". Then we will show it to all over the country andabroad, especially in Asian countries.
9. Cities highly concerned with environmental issues in the world are already actively conducting projects forglobal warming problems. We promote collaborations with these cities to share the information and thepractical measures, and to disseminate the results cooperatively.
Building international network between cities as described in "9" above is quite useful for developing andpromoting innovative technologies towards low carbon, safe and healthy environmental science city, and promoting
environmental educations. Considering that this forum meeting is held as a related event of G8 Science andTechnology Ministers Meeting to be held on June 15 in Okinawa, we take active steps to induce that the science andtechnology ministers participating in the meeting share the understanding of the usefulness of international networkand hopefully forward this message to the G8 Hokkaido Toyako Summit.