Transcript Summary of 2015 Seminar - Regional Environmental Center

Summary of Last Year’s
Seminar
Kentaro Tamura, PhD
Leader, Climate and Energy Area
Deputy Director, Kansai Research Centre
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
Seminar “Low Carbon Technologies: Bridging Japan and Europe”
11-12 October 2016
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Summary : 2015 July LCT Seminar at REC
Event title:
Seminar on Low Carbon Technologies At the Regional Environmental Center for
Central and Eastern Europe
Date and Venue:
6-7 July 2015 at REC HQ in Szentendre, Hungary
Participants:
37 (policy-makers, researchers, and private sector) from 10 countries (Albania,
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Lithuania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey,
Romania, Hungary, and Japan)
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Summary : 2015 July LCT WS at REC
Agenda – 5 sessions in 1.5 days:
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To discuss the importance of decarbonisation in Central and Eastern Europe
(CEE) and South Eastern Europe (SEE)
To discuss the importance of financing low carbon technology diffusion for
further emissions reductions in CEE and SEE
To introduce the Joint Crediting Mechanism as a potential solution to address
the above issues
To share various schemes and cases under the JCM
Two breakout sessions; “Prioritised Low Carbon Technologies” and “Possible
Cooperation for Technology Diffusion”
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Breakout Sessions
• “Prioritised Low Carbon Technologies” Power sector, district
heating and cooling, transportation and building sectors
– Barriers to Technology Diffusion
• Lack of long-term low carbon strategies
• Lack of financial incentives
• “Possible Cooperation for Technology Diffusion”
– Identification and matching of relevant stakeholders
– Especially, specific technology suppliers and recipients (demand
side)
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Summary : 2015 July LCT WS at REC
Main outcomes:
• Successfully co-organised the first collaborative seminar between MOEJ,
IGES and REC, which welcomed 37 important stakeholders from 10
countries.
• Initiated building a platform to encourage policy dialogue on
decarbonisation and low-carbon technologies (LCTs) between crosscontinental countries.
• Introduced the initiatives of Japan for promoting the diffusion of LCTs and
strengthened its presence in Central and Eastern Europe and South Eastern
Europe
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