RIETI & EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation Joint Webinar

Towards carbon neutrality -Challenge of Japanese & EU industry and system- (Handouts and Video)

Information

  • Time and Date: 4:00pm-6:00pm (Tokyo) / 9:00am-11:00am (Brussels), June 24, 2021
  • Hosts: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) / EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation

Video

Handouts

First Session: Industry Challenge

Presentation: Hydrogen

Speakers:

UETAKE Nobuko (Deputy Senior General Manager, Green Solution Project Asahi Kasei Corporation)

Erwin PENFORNIS (Air Liquide Group Vice-President H2E World Business Line Vice-President of Strategy, H2-Force)

Presentation: Battery

Speakers:

MATSUMOTO Shoichi (CEO, Envision AESC)

Diego PAVIA (CEO, InnoEnergy (European Battery Alliance))

Moderator:

TANABE Yasuo (Managing Director of Japan Side, EU-Japan Center for Industrial Cooperation)

Discussion

Second Session: Policy and Institutional Challenges

Presentation: CBAM and Carbon Pricing

Speakers:

Andrei MARCU (Executive Director, European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition)

Alexandre AFFRE (Deputy Director General, Business Europe)

ARIMURA Toshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, School of Political Science and Economics & Director, Research Institute for Environmental Economics and Management Waseda University)

TEZUKA Hiroyuki (Fellow (Climate Change), JFE Steel Corporation)

Moderator:

WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI)

Discussion