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The 3rd Workshop of Japan-UK Joint Research Project on
Low-Carbon Societies (LCS)“Roadmap to a Low-Carbon World”
Date: 13th-15th February, 2008
Venue: Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, Iidabashi, Tokyo
Overall workshop structure• A two-day expert workshop will be followed by a one-day symposium:o The expert workshop (13th-14th February) will explore the roadmap to a lowcarbon world through presentations and small-group discussionso The symposium (15th), will be addressed by high-level speakers in themorning. Discussion points explored at the expert workshop will be presented
by panel discussion in the afternoon – the audience will be able to interact
using hand-held electronic opinion counters.
• The third workshop outputs – the report and executive summary and the “call foraction” – as well as a summary of conclusions from the whole workshop series will be
discussed among the experts in the final session on the third day before being
finalised by the international Steering Committee.
The expert workshop
1) Around 60 experts will be invited. These will include low-carbon society researchers;
officials at national, sub-national and city level who are dealing with city planning,transportation policy, technological development, assistance to developing countries, andclimate change; business and financial experts and NGOs.
2) The expert workshop consists of two series of key-note speeches, parallel sessions,interactive sessions and post-parallel sessions.
3) Four key issues will be discussed in the parallel sessions:
Topic 1 [Behavior]: Behavior change and its impact on delivering LCSs.
Topic 2 [Sustainable Development]: Aligning sustainable development with LCSs
Topic 3 [Enabling: Investment]: mechanisms to enable LCSs
Topic 4 [Barriers and Opportunities]: approaches to sensitive LCS sectors
Key-note Speech in plenary session: Each speaker will cover key discussion points foreach group (20min: 15min talk and 5min Q&A).
Parallel Session: Participants will be divided into 4 groups with 4-8 lead speeches in thegroup (1-2 slides if necessary, 5min maximum). Discussion will be directed to explore key
messages and findings/evidences in each area.
Interactive Session: Each of the four groups will report back to plenary and respond tochallenges.
Post-Parallel Session: The groups will reconvene and refine their outputs based on
discussions during interactive session.
4) The third workshop outputs – the report and executive summary and the “call for action” –as well as a summary of conclusions from the whole workshop series will be discussed
among the experts in the final session on the third day before being finalised by theinternational Steering Committee.

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Symposium
1) Around two hundred people, who have some relation to and/or are stakeholders in thetopic, will be invited.
2) The morning session will involve high-level presentations from international speakers.
3) The afternoon session will host a panel discussion based on outcomes of the expert
workshop. Audience participation will be encouraged and an interactive hand-held opinion
counter will help facilitate frank and lively exchange between panelists and audience.
4) The symposium will be web-cast at a later date.
5) Lunch buffet will be prepared for all symposium participants.
Timetable of the 3rd LCS Workshop
Feb.13 (Wed)Expert WS (day 1)
MorningFeb.14 (Thu)
Expert WS (day 2)

8:30- Registration

8:30- Registration

9:00- Orientation

Second Round
9- Plenary (2)Key-note speech Group 1-4

First Round
10:00 Plenary (1)Key-note speechGroup1&2 (20min each)[this is not clear if it meansgroup 1 and 2 or what]
10:40- Refreshment breakFeb.15 (Fri)
Symposiumand Expert WS (day 3)
9- Registration
9:30- Minister of theEnvironment, Japan
9:40- UK Ambassador
9:50- Introduction

10:20- Refreshment break
10:40- Parallel (2)(including 4-6 speeches)

High-level speech
10:10- High level speech1
10:40- High level speech2
11:10- High level speech3

12- Lunch
11:00- Key-note speechGroup 3&4
11:40- Parallel (1)(including 4-6 speeches)

Afternoon

12:30- Lunch
13:30- Parallel (1) (cont.)
14:40- Refreshment break
15:10- Interactive (1)(“Challenge” each other)
16:30- Post Parallel (1)17- Adjourn

11:40- Lunch (buffet)

13- Parallel (2) (cont.)
13:40- Interactive (2)(“Challenge” each other)15- Post Parallel (2)15:30- Refreshment break
All topics
16- Overall
18- Adjourn

13- Panel Discussion(Explain key messages andaction plans exploredduring Expert WS)
30min from each topic
15- Overall Discussion
15:30- Closing Remarks,
President of NIES
16- Final session of Expert
WS (Call for Action andExecutive Summary)

17- Adjourn
Free night(Preparation for panel
discussion in symposium)
Staff Room is located at “Seseragi” in Third Floor during 12th to 15th Feb.
(Only for International Steering Committee (SC) members:- steering committee meeting including group chairs and rapporateurs will be held at 15:0017:00 on Feb.12, prior to the Expert Workshop in Crystal Room in Ground Floor.
- steering committee meeting will be held at 17:00 on Feb. 15, after the Expert Workshop)

Evening

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Structure of the Expert Workshop
Plenary Session (20min each): Each key-note speaker will cover key discussion points foreach group.
Parallel Session (120min): Participants will be divided into 4 groups during parallel session.
Each group work will cover 4-8 (1-2 slides if necessary, 5min maximum) lead speeches
and discussions to explore key messages and action plans in each area. Each expert willjoin 4 groups.
Interactive Session (80min): All participants will get together to report back from eachgroup work in parallel session and have discussions with each other to fine-tune key
messages and action plans.
Post-Parallel Session (30min): Participants will divide into same groups as in parallelsession and polish their outputs while taking in account discussions during interactivesession.
Overall Session (120min): Simulation for the panel discussion in symposium

Day1: Orientation (60min): purpose and process ofthe 3rd WS from co-chairs and group chairs

Plenary session (20min x 4): Key-note speech

Parallel session (120min):group discussions including 4-8 lead speeches (5min)Group3
Group4
Group1
Group2
Enabling:
Barrier andBehavior
SD
Investment
Opportunity

Interactive session (80min):
Report back and “Challenge” each other

Post-Parallel session (30min): fine-tune discussions
Group1Behavior

Group2SD

Group3
Enabling:
Investment

Group4Barrier andOpportunity

Group chairs will coordinate discussion at each group.
Each participant will join two different group discussion during day1 and day2.

Day2: Overall session (120min): simulation forthe panel discussion in symposium

3X2for Day1& Day2

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The 3rd Symposium of Japan-UK Joint Research Project on Low-Carbon Societies“Roadmap to Low-Carbon World”
Date: 15th February, 2008
Venue: Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, Iidabashi, Tokyo.
Welcome Address
9:30-9:40

Dr. Ichiro Kamoshita, Minister of the Environment, Japan

9:40-9:50

Sir Graham Fry, British Ambassador to Japan

Purpose of this symposium
9:50-10:10

Co-chairs: Dr. Shuzo Nishioka (NIES) and Dr. Jim Skea (UKERC)

High-level speech
10:10-10:40

Roadmap to Low-Carbon World – Asian Consciousness
Dr. Emil Salim, Former Minister for Environment, Indonesia

10:40-11:10

Roadmap to Low-Carbon World – Business Perspectives
Mr. Mitsuhiko Yamashita, Executive Vice President, Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.

11:10-11:40

Towards a Low-Carbon UK
Mr. David Warrilow, Head of Climate, Energy and Ozone:
Science and Analysis Division, UK Defra

11:40-13:00 Lunch for all participants

Panel Discussion: Interactive discussion using electronic opinion counters
13:00-15:30

Co-chairs: Dr. Shuzo Nishioka (NIES) and Dr. Jim Skea (UKERC)

Group1: Behaviour change and its impact on delivering low-carbon societies
Jeremy Watson (Arup, UK) and Yuichi Moriguchi (NIES, Japan)
Group2: Aligning Sustainable Development with low-carbon societies
Ogunlade Davidson (University of Sierra Leone) andTaka Hiraishi (IGES, Japan)
Group3: Investment: enabling low-carbon societies
Jose Alberto Garibaldi (Energeia, Mexico) andTakejiro Sueyoshi (Special Advisor to the UNEP Finance Initiative)
Group4: Barriers and Opportunities: approaches to sensitive low-carbon sectors
Jim Watson (SPRU, UK) and Naoya Tsukamoto (MoEJ, Japan)
Overall Discussion
Closing Remarks
15:30-15:40

Dr. Ryutaro Ohtsuka, President, NIES
All presentations and discussions will be webcast.

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Expected outputs from the 3rd low-carbon society workshop
1) International Steering Committee “Call for Action”
This should be a short and direct document from the international steering committee callingon the G8 and emerging countries to implement key measures that will help in the transition
to a low-carbon society. It will detail key areas for action as identified during the thirdworkshop.
It should be presented during the Environment Ministerial and the Gleneagles Dialogue
Ministerial with a view to seeking endorsement from participating countries.

2) Report from 20 countries on Low-Carbon Society Scenarios
Should examine development pathways and current starting points, both in reference toputting each country on a trajectory towards transitioning to a low-carbon society and in
addressing climate goals. We can expect a review of current emissions and energy use
alongside national programmes that address the need for pro-growth strategies that also
avoids dangerous climate change.
We can expect this to be identify starting points for countries and could help to recognise thesimilarities and difference in approaches across regions. We should be able to use this as astand alone document in this regard, however it could also be used as part of the overall
conclusion document.
3) Executive summary of the 3rd workshop
This document will summarise the discussions during the third workshop and should
concentrate on the key messages delivered by participants. We will need to use thisdocument to link the evidence base generated by the collaborative energy modelling, whilst
identifying the key areas for a range of stakeholders to consider.
We can expect this document to be used in both the Environment Ministerial and theGleneagles Dialogue during Japan’s presidency of the G8 in 2008. It could also be used in
the preparations for the G8 summit by disseminating it to colleagues in the G8 +5 countries,
particularly Environment Ministers.
We could use the executive summary during other international meetings, such as G20
dialogues, the Major Economies Meeting and the UNFCCC COP in Poland in 2008.
4) Full report of the 3rd workshop
This will be a more in depth look at the discussions held during the third workshop and should
include a thorough examination of the conclusions reached by participants. It will include
papers written by presenters from the workshop and the outcomes of the working groups andthe interactive sessions.
This document can be used to feed into other international fora such as the G8 Environmental
Ministerial Meeting, Gleneagles Dialogue, the Major Economies Meeting and the UNFCCC atofficial level.
5) Summary of conclusions from the workshop seriesThis document will need to integrate conclusions from the workshop series as well as findings
from the energy modelling collaborations. It should also include any policy recommendations
and will need to be accompanied by an executive summary. It should have a clear narrativethat draws both upon the evidence base as well as the examination of policies and measuresthat can put us on a trajectory towards transitioning to a low-carbon economy. It should result

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in a clear recommendation to all areas of policy development and should include anexamination of the roles and opportunities available to key actors such as Governments,
business, individuals and organisations.
This document can be used to feed into other international fora such as the Gleneagles
Dialogue, the Major Economies Meeting and the UNFCCC at official level. It could also be
used to form a side event during the next COP in Poland. We should aim to publish anddisseminate the document to our international colleagues and the organisations theyrepresent.

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Background to the workshop series
The Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MoEJ) and the Department for Environment, Foodand Rural Affairs in the UK (Defra) are jointly promoting a scientific research project towardachieving a Low-Carbon Society (LCS) by 2050. The National Institute for Environmental
Studies (NIES), the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and the Tyndall Centre for Climate
Change Research are conducting research activities in line with this goal. We organised the1st LCS workshop in June 2006 (Tokyo) and the 2nd LCS workshop in June 2007 (London).
The report of the first workshop was presented to the G8 Dialogue meeting in Mexico inOctober 2006. The Executive Summary was distributed to Parties at the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Nairobi in November 2006.
These can be found at the website http://2050.nies.go.jp/200606workshop/.
The report of the second workshop was distributed to Parties at the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Bali in December 2007.
These can be found at the website
http://www.ukerc.ac.uk/TheMeetingPlace/Activities/Activities2007/0706AchievingSustainableLCS.aspx.
The 3rd LCS workshop will be held from February 13 to 15, 2008 (Tokyo) and it willsummarise research outputs for G8 Japan.

Japan-UK Joint Research Project
LCS through Sustainable Developmentfor Global Participation
A First workshop was heldin Tokyo, June14-16, 2006.

G8 Gleneagles 2005G20 March 14-16, Chiba
G8 Env. May 25-27, Kobe

Participants from 19 countries;
Asia: Japan, China, India, Thailand,
Taiwan (China)
Africa: South Africa, Nigeria
Europe: UK, France, Germany,Denmark, Spain, Netherlands, Russia
Latin America: Brazil, Mexico, Chile
North America: US, Canada

G8 Japan
July 2008

A Second workshop was heldin London, June13-15, 2007.
A Third workshop will be heldin Japan, Feb13-15, 2008.
Developing and Diffusing Innovations
for our good life and LCS through SD7

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V12, as of Feb 6, 2008About the Hosts
This symposium and workshop - sponsored by the Ministry of the Environment Japan(MoEJ) - is hosted by the MoEJ and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural
Affairs in the UK (Defra), in collaboration with partners National Institute forEnvironmental Studies (NIES), UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC), the Tyndall
Centre for Climate Change Research and the British Embassy to Tokyo, under thedirection of the international steering committee.

About the Partners
Established in 1974, the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) is a researchorganisation for environmental issues. The NIES provides a scientific and technologicalinfrastructure for environmental administration with integrated and interdisciplinary research
on a wide range of issues. The NIES has supported the MoEJ in the arrangement of theworkshop contents and logistics.
The reception on the 13th February is hosted and sponsored by the British Embassy basedin Tokyo.
The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) was set up in 2004 to provide a focus for energy
research in the UK while galvanising collaborative international energy research. A key
supporting function of UKERC is the UKERC Meeting Place, based in Oxford, which aims tobring together members of the UK energy community and overseas experts from different
disciplines, to learn, identify problems, develop solutions and further the energy debate.
The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research brings together scientists, economists,engineers and social scientists, who together are working to develop sustainable responses
to climate change through trans-disciplinary research and dialogue on both a national andinternational level - not just within the research community, but also with business leaders,
policy advisors, the media and the public in general.

Steering committee
A steering committee composed of scientists and policy-makers from Japan, UK, China,Germany, India, Mexico, Sierra Leone, and USA was assembled to steer Defra and theworkshop partners in the arrangement of the workshop:oooooooo

Japan: Naoya Tsukamoto, Yoshiyuki Yoichi, Haruhiko Nishimura, Sachiko
Tsukahara (MoEJ): Shuzo Nishioka, Mikiko Kainuma, Junichi Fujino (NIES)
UK: David Warrilow, Stephen Cornelius, Andrew Bolitho (Defra), Jim Skea(UKERC), Jim Watson (SPRU: Science and Technology Policy Research,
University of Sussex (one of Tyndall Consortium)), Jeremy Watson (Arup).
China: Jiang Kejun (ERI: Energy Research Institute)
Germany: Martin Weiss (European Commission)
India: P.R. Shukla (IIM: Indian Institute of Management)
Mexico: Jose Alberto Garibaldi (Energeia)
Sierra Leone: Ogunlade Davidson (University of Sierra Leone)
USA: Jonathan Pershing (WRI: World Resources Institute)

Workshop co-chairs: Shuzo Nishioka (NIES) and Jim Skea (UKERC)

Contact: Junichi Fujino,
Senior Researcher, Center for Global Environment Research (CGER),
National Institute for Environmental Studies,
16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8506 Japan.
Tel: +81-29-850-2504, Fax: +81-29-850-2572
E-mail: fuji@nies.go.jp

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