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Parallel Session 1 (PS-1)
  • 23 July 2024
  • JST 15:30 - 16:30 (GMT+09:00)
  • Simultaneous interpretation

1.5℃ Roadmap –Seizing Opportunities through Decarbonisation and Creating a Sustainable Future

Summary

This session discussed strategies to achieve the 1.5°C climate change target while improving the well-being of Japanese society. The session was started with an opening speech and introduction of the 1.5°C Roadmap, followed by one of the authors, who explained that there are many business opportunities on the path to the 1.5°C aligned emissions reductions in Japan, and that decarbonisation can contribute to achieving economic growth as well as to improve the human well-being. The first presenter introduced how digital technology can be used to manage the uncertainty of electricity demand and power generation, which enables the introduction of rooftop solar to multiple locations in an economically rational and speedy manner. The second presenter then introduced how efforts to transform existing business practices, including promoting teleworking and optimising supply chains, can lead not only to CO2 reductions, but also to cost reductions and solving other social issues. Finally, in the panel discussion, it was confirmed that businesses and citizens need to act together to take on the 1.5°C target as an opportunity, rather than a burden, and to bring about changes that will lead society in a better direction, while responding to the increase in electricity consumption due to digitalisation on both the supply and demand sides.

Key Messages
  • Accelerating the adoption of existing technologies and solutions, such as renewable energy, work style changes and supply chain optimisation, is crucial for decarbonisation. These actions are now economically viable and can enhance business performance by addressing both energy supply and demand effectively.
  • Harnessing renewable energy in rural areas, while engaging with local communities, can promote a decentralised social structure and boost resilience. This approach encourages business partnerships focused on local issues, revitalising the local economy, improving work-life balance and enhancing quality of life.
  • A shared societal vision for sustainability is essential. Governments must foster environments where companies contributing to sustainability are incentivised, enhancing their predictability. At the same time, citizens and consumers should support businesses that address these challenges and advocate for transformative change.

Session Supporter

Panel Discussion

Opening Remarks
, Research Advisor, IGES
Moderator
, Senior Manager, Announcers Department, tv-asahi
Speaker
KURIYAMA Akihisa, Research Manager, Climate and Energy, IGES
Speaker
, CEO, i GRID SOLUTIONS Inc.
Speaker
, EVP, Corporate Executive Officer, Vice Head of Global Solution Business Group, Fujitsu Limited

Research Advisor, IGES

KAINUMA Mikiko

KAINUMA Mikiko

Research Advisor, IGES

Dr Mikiko Kainuma is Senior Research Advisor to IGES and Secretary General of the International Research Network for Leveraging a Climate-neutral Society (LCS-RNet). Since 1990, she has developed the Asia-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM), which assesses policy options for stabilising the global climate, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. She is a lead author of the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports and the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC. Her awards include the Nikkei Global Environmental Technology Award (1994) and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Integrated Assessment Modelling Consortium (IAMC) (2022).

Senior Manager, Announcers Department, tv-asahi

YAMAGUCHI Yutaka

YAMAGUCHI Yutaka

Senior Manager, Announcers Department, tv-asahi

YAMAGUCHI Yutaka joined TV Asahi as an announcer in 1992. Over the past 30 years, he has been involved in various news programmes, including anchoring the weekend evening news programme 'Super J Channel' for 13 and a half years. For a decade, he served as a reporter for 'Hodo (News) Station' covering climate change issues worldwide. His notable coverage includes reporting from Japan's torrential rain disaster areas, Greenland's melting ice sheets in the Arctic, the Marshall Islands in the Pacific affected by rising sea levels, and the Philippines devastated by Super Typhoon Haiyan. He has also reported on renewable energy projects in Germany and across Japan. Yutaka continues to focus on climate change and renewable energy as his lifelong mission.

KURIYAMA Akihisa

KURIYAMA Akihisa

Research Manager, Climate and Energy, IGES

CEO, i GRID SOLUTIONS Inc.

AKITA Tomokazu

AKITA Tomokazu

CEO, i GRID SOLUTIONS Inc.

After working for an advertising company, he joined i GRID SOLUTIONS in 2009, and as a new business development manager, he promoted the solar power generation and electricity supply business.

Tomokazu also committed himself to build energy solutions for businesses and households.

He founded and became the CEO of VPP Japan in 2017 and i Grid Lab in 2020. (Both companies merged into i GRID SOLUTIONS from 2024.)

In May 2021, he assumed the position of President and Representative Director of i Grid Solutions, Inc.

EVP, Corporate Executive Officer, Vice Head of Global Solution Business Group, Fujitsu Limited

OTSUKA Naoko

OTSUKA Naoko

EVP, Corporate Executive Officer, Vice Head of Global Solution Business Group, Fujitsu Limited

Started career as a sales representative for information service and telecommunication carrier industries.

After working in marketing and business strategy, from 2015, engaged in business development in the area of social issues and led agricultural ICT business, smart agriculture business, etc.

In April 2023, appointed as Head of Social Solution Business Unit.
In April 2024, assigned as Corporate Executive Officer EVP, Vice Head of Global Solutions.

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