1：Thursday,
October 15, 2015
Day 1Program
Thursday,DayOctober
15, 2015
10:00〜12:00

Opening Ceremony at the Ballroom “Hoʼoh”
Opening Speech by Juro Saito (Chairman, Global Environmental Action (GEA))
Address by H. I. H. the Crown Prince
Guest Speech by Shinzo Abe (Prime Minister, Japan)
Keynote Speech by Achim Steiner (Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP))
Awards Ceremony of the 4th Contest for Activities on Biodiversity

12:00〜13:00

Luncheon at the Banquet Room “Kiri”

13:00〜14:30

Session 1: Towards a New International Framework on Climate Change~Framework for the post 2020 period, Clarity and transparency of the INDCs, Assessing the INDCs
submitted and Contributions to COP21/Paris 2015~
Opening Remarks by Chair of the Conference: Wakako Hironaka (Director General, Global Environmental Action (GEA))
Session Chair: Itaru Yasui (Honorary Advisor, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE))
Presentation

François Gemenne (Executive Director, Politics of the Earth Programme, Sciences-Po)
Yukari Takamura (Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University)

Free Discussion

14:30〜14:45

Coffee Break at the foyer

14:45〜16:15

Session 2: Building a Society for Realizing Reduction and Mitigation ofGreenhouse Gas Emissions~Energy strategies, Smart cities and infrastructure building, Hydrogen societies, advancedtechnologies and technology transfer and Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM)~
Session Chair: Shuzo Nishioka (Senior Research Advisor, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES))
Presentation

Paul Netter (Process Environmental Manager, the Environmental, Health and Safety Division,Compagnie de Saint-Gobain)

Bernard Delmas (President and CEO, Nihon Michelin Tire Co., Ltd.)Jim Skea (Professor, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London)
Free Discussion

16:15〜16:30

Coffee Break at the foyer

16:30〜18:00

Session 3: Adaptation Measures for Reducing Climate Change Impacts~Assessing impacts of and managing risks such as natural disasters, agriculture and food production,
ill-health; Building resilient social systems to reduce risks related to climate change;
Discussing the shape of international cooperation and support~
Session Chair: Paul Shrivastava (Executive Director, Future Earth Secretariat)
Presentation

Taikan Oki (Professor, Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo)

Free Discussion

19:00〜20:30

4Welcome Reception hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the Iikura GuesthouseDay 216,
Friday, October 16, 2015
Day 2 Program
Friday, October：2015
10:00〜12:00

Session 4: Actions for Achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)~The post-2015 development agenda and its Effective means of implementation~
Session Chair: Macharia Kamau (Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary and Permanent
Representative, Kenya Mission to the United Nations, New York)

Presentation

Kazuhiko Takemoto (Director, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Studyof Sustainability (UNU-IAS))

Norichika Kanie (Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University)Måns Nilsson (Deputy Director and Research Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI))Free Discussion

12:00〜13:30

Luncheon at the Banquet Room “Kiri”

13:30〜15:00

Session 5: Roles of Epistemic Communities in Policy-Making~Facilitating communication between scientists and stakeholders in the real world, Scientificknowledge and expert advice, Comprehensive approaches in problem-solving, Roles IPCC, ICSU,IPBES or other epistemic communities to play~
Session Chair: Hironori Hamanaka (Chair of the Board, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES))
Presentation

Gordon McBean (President, International Council for Science (ICSU))
Fumiko Kasuga (Future Earth Secretariat Global Hub Director - Japan)
Anne Larigauderie (Executive Secretary, Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity andEcosystem Services (IPBES))

Free Discussion

15:00〜15:30

Coffee Break at the foyer

15:30〜17:30

Wrap-up Session
Reports from Session 1-5
SummaryClosing

18:00〜20:00

Reception at the Banquet Room “Kiri”

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