Invitation to theSymposium on the Environment andSustainable Development:
Roles of Japan with Regard toGlobal Environmental Issues
The Japan Development Bank, with joint sponsorship by the Japan Economic
Research Institute, has organized a symposium on the environment and sustainable development.
This symposium is intended for those who are interested in the role of economics in global
environmental issues. Panelists are to express and exchange their own views on issues related tothe above title and expected roles of Japan towards them. The symposium is envisaged to shedlight on key issues in tackling one of the most significant and difficult long-range problems weencounter.
The background of this symposium is to broaden the research activity of the ResearchCenter on Global Warming, established in 1993 within the Research Institute of Capital
Formation, JDB. Its primary purposes are to foster economic research on environmental
atmospheric disequilibrium, and to search for policy and institutional arrangements capable ofeffectively correcting environmental degradation.
The Japan Development Bank hopes that this symposium will provide the audience
with a framework for understanding the interplay between the environment and the economy,
particularly the Japanese economy, in the coming decades,
The symposium is to be carried out in simultaneous translation.
Outline of the Symposium
1. Name of the Symposium
Symposium on the Environment and Sustainable Development:
Roles of Japan with regard to global environmental issues
2. Time and Date
2: 00 pm to 5: 00 pm, November 10 (Friday), 1995
(Hall to open from 1:30 pm)
3. Place
Keidanren Kaikan (14th floor) in 1-9-4, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo-1-4. Time Schedule of the Symposium• 2: 00 pm Opening Address

Yoshihiko Yoshino(Governor, JDB)

• 2: 05 pm Introduction of Panelists

Prof. Hirofumi Uzawa• 2: 10 pm Speeches by Panelists
Environment and Equity
Prof. Kenneth J. Arrow
Prof. Partha Dasgupta
Environment and Economic GrowthProf. Dale W. Jorgenson
Prof. Masahiro Kuroda
Environment and Sustainable GrowthProf. William D. Nordhaus
Prof. Karl-Göran Mäler
Prof. Martin L. Weitzman
Countrywise Policies and Environmental Effects
Prof. Mohan Munasinghe• 3: 45 pm to 4: 00 pm

Break• 4: 00 pm Panel Discussion• 4: 55 pm Closing Address

Shinji Ohno
(Executive Director, RICF, JDB)

• 5: 00 pm Finish-2-5. List of the Panelists
Professor Kenneth J. Arrow
Department of Economics, Stanford University (Nobel Laureate)
Professor Partha Dasgupta
Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge
Professor Dale W. Jorgenson
Department of Economics, Harvard University
Professor Masahiro Kuroda
Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University
Professor Karl-Göran Mäler
Director, The Beijer Institute, and Stockholm School of Economics
Professor Mohan Munasinghe
University of Colombo, and the World Bank
Professor William D. Nordhaus
Department of Economics, Yale University
Professor Hirofumi Uzawa
The Japan Academy, and Department of Economics, Chuo University
Professor Martin L. Weitzman
Department of Economics, Harvard University

The symposium is coordinated by Professor Hirofumi Uzawa, Principal Counselor,Research Center on Global Warming, JDB.

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