{"id":3366,"date":"2022-07-11T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2022-07-11T17:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:36:10","slug":"webinar_coal_phaseout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/news-topics\/webinar_coal_phaseout\/","title":{"rendered":"[Video\/Slides available] Challenges on Phaseout of Coal Power Generation: From Perspectives of the Policies in the UK and Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3426\" src=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/20220708_screenshots-1024x134.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/20220708_screenshots-1024x134.png 1024w, https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/20220708_screenshots-300x39.png 300w, https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/20220708_screenshots-768x101.png 768w, https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/20220708_screenshots-1536x201.png 1536w, https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/20220708_screenshots-2048x269.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&lt;\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u306f<a href=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/news-topics\/webinar-coal-phaseout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u3053\u3061\u3089<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><strong>Japan Climate Initiative Webinar Series<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><strong>Challenges on Phaseout of Coal Power Generation: From Perspectives of the Policies in the UK and Japan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers&#8217; Meeting was held in Berlin, Germany, on May 26-27. A joint statement of the G7 countries released after a two-day meeting agreed on the goal of achieving predominantly decarbonised electricity sectors by 2035. They also committed to prioritizing concrete and timely steps towards the goal of an eventual phase-out of domestic unabated coal power generation.<\/p>\n<p>The UK, which is leading the movement of these major countries, has set a goal of completely phase out coal power by 2024 and decarbonizing electricity centered on renewable energy by 2035. On the other hand, Japan has a policy of continuing to use coal even after 2030 by aiming for zero emissions of coal-fired power generation using hydrogen and ammonia.<\/p>\n<p>In this webinar, we introduced the policies surrounding coal-fired power generation in Japan and the UK, and discussed the challenges facing coal-fired power generation and what are the paths that will enable coal phase-out.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">PDF files of the speakers&#8217; slides are available in the program below.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Recorded video is available here.<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Challenges on Phaseout of Coal Power Generation: From Perspectives of the Policies in the UK &amp; Japan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1EmIs4RiOTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Date and Time<\/span>: 4:00pm &#8211; 5:30pm JST, Friday, July 8th, 2022<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Format<\/span>: Online (Zoom Webinar)<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Interpretation<\/span>: Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation is available.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Admission<\/span>: Free<br \/>\nOrganized by Japan Climate Initiative (JCI)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Program<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. Welcome<br \/>\n<a href=\"#KT\">Ken Tanaka<\/a>, Climate &amp; Energy Group Officer, WWF Japan<\/p>\n<p>2. Presentation<br \/>\ni) Current status and challenges of Japan&#8217;s coal-fired power generation policy\u3000<a href=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/JCI-webinar0708_REI-YO_web2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slides<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#YO\">Yuri Okubo<\/a>, Senior Researcher, Renewable Energy Institute<\/p>\n<p>ii) UK Journey to phase out coal power\u3000<a href=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/07\/04.07.22-UK-Coal-presentation-002.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slides<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#MW\">Dr. Matthew Webb<\/a>, Deputy Director for the COP26 Energy Transition Campaign, Department for Business Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy, Government of the UK<\/p>\n<p>3. Discussion \/ Q&amp;A<br \/>\nYuri Okubo, Senior Researcher, Renewable Energy Institute<br \/>\nDr. Matthew Webb, Deputy Director for the COP26 Energy Transition Campaign, Department for Business Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy<br \/>\n<a href=\"#KT2\">Kae Takase<\/a>, Associate Director, CDP Worldwide-Japan\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2022\/06\/JCI20220708_CDP-KT2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Slides<\/a><br \/>\nModerator: Ken Tanaka, Climate &amp; Energy Group Officer, WWF Japan<\/p>\n<p>4. Closing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Profiles<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 14.9713%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3878\" src=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/matt-web2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 3.83878%;vertical-align: top\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 81.19%;vertical-align: top\"><a id=\"MW\"><\/a><strong>Dr. Matthew Webb, Deputy Director for the COP26 Energy Transition Campaign, Department for Business Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy, Government of the UK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matt Webb is Deputy Director for the COP26 Energy Transition Campaign team in the International Climate Change directorate of the Department for Business, Energy &amp; Industrial Strategy. Matt works in partnership with the Cabinet Office on the COP26 Energy Transition Campaign and has oversight of the Powering Past Coal Alliance launched by the UK and Canada in November 2017.<br \/>\nMatt was previously seconded as a Senior Associate at E3G, leading international diplomacy on the transition from coal, encouraging progressive Governments to show greater leadership internationally.<br \/>\nMatt has worked at a number of Government departments on a wide range of energy and climate policies since 2003, including: Department for Energy and Climate Change, on energy efficiency, heat policy and 2050 Pathways analysis; Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in support of the demonstration of Carbon Capture and Storage; Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, implementing the Near Zero Emissions Coal collaboration on CCS with China, and the Department for Transport, working on cleaner fuels and vehicles and the environmental impact of aviation.<br \/>\nMatt has a degree in Chemistry from Oxford University a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Cambridge University, and MBA from the Open University.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 14.9713%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2272\" src=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/yuriokubo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 3.83878%;vertical-align: top\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 81.19%;vertical-align: top\"><strong><a id=\"YO\"><\/a>Yuri Okubo, Senior Researcher, Renewable Energy Institute<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yuri Okubo joined the Institute in 2015 as Climate Change Policy Advisor to develop and implement the Institute\u2019s strategy to promote renewable energy from the climate change policy perspectives.<br \/>\nShe started her career working for a NGO (CASA) in Japan and became a research assistant at the Department of Political Science of the University of Zurich where she was engaged in research projects on climate and sustainable development which were funded by the European Parliament, the German Federal Environment Agency and UK organizations. She joined the Foundation myclimate to set up its Japanese affiliation and support the global network. She obtained a master\u2019s degree in International Relations at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies.<br \/>\nAt Renewable Energy Institute, she specializes on climate change policies in general and her research focuses on global and domestic coal power business policies and trends. She also takes the lead for joint studies with international organizations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 14.9713%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3213\" src=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/kae-takase-862x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"862\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 3.83878%;vertical-align: top\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 81.19%;vertical-align: top\"><strong><a id=\"KT2\"><\/a>Kae Takase, Associate Director, CDP Worldwide-Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kae Takase received her Ph. D in environmental studies from graduate school of frontier science, University of Tokyo. She was an economist at Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, and her specialty was econometric modeling of energy supply and demand, and renewable policy. She has worked at Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth, Center for Low Carbon Society Strategy, Japan Science and Technology Agency, and University of Tokyo, and also a senior manager at the CDP Japan. She has been successful in engaging Japanese companies to join Science-based Target (SBT) initiative, and in engaging government to consider better corporate renewable sourcing environment, as a technical partner of RE100.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 14.9713%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3200\" src=\"https:\/\/japanclimate.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/cc9efb5dd9a52aab30c70757b65df5fe-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 3.83878%;vertical-align: top\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 81.19%;vertical-align: top\"><b><a id=\"KT\"><\/a>Ken Tanaka, Climate &amp; Energy Group Officer, WWF Japan<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ken Tanaka works for WWF Japan and serves as the secretariat of the Japan Climate Initiative (JCI) that is co-organized with CDP Japan and Renewable Energy Institute. Before joining WWF-Japan, he worked the Fukuoka Prefectural Government and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in environmental conservation, especially in waste management and recycling including the work supporting the Japanese companies to develop overseas recycling businesses. After that, he worked as a science communicator at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, and he was actively involved in a diverse of projects cooperating with overseas museums, businesses, research institutions etc. He holds a Master of Science in chemistry from Kyushu University.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u306f\u3053\u3061\u3089&gt; Japan Climate Initiative Webinar Series Challenges on Phaseout of Coal Power Generation: From Perspectives of the Policies in the UK and Japan The G7 Climate, Energy and Environment Ministers&#8217; Meeting was held in Berlin, Germany, on May 26-27. A joint statement of the G7 countries released after a two-day meeting agreed on the goal of achieving predominantly decarbonised electricity sectors by 2035. They also committed to prioritizing concrete and timely steps towards the goal of an eventual phase-out of domestic unabated coal power generation. 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