IGES recently released the "1.5°C Roadmap" which outlines a 1.5°C-aligned pathway to provide guidance on decarbonisation for Japan’s business sector. The report summarises various socioeconomic changes that will occur as we move toward a 1.5°C world and sets out business opportunities, in the form of five changes and 20 opportunities. The Roadmap is intended to be a quick reference for wide range of businesses and other stakeholders.
This session begins with an explanation of the 1.5°C Roadmap by the authors, followed by narratives from private companies on their on-going efforts to take advantage of the "20 Opportunities". Discussion will then focus on the following points:
This session will showcase some forward-looking examples and provide some implications for the wide range of business stakeholders who would like to seize business opportunities through the decarbonisation process.
To achieve the goal of limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5°C and to realise a sustainable and prosperous society, the 1.5°C Roadmap outlines the social changes that will take place and the actions required.
Research Advisor, IGES
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
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
Research Manager, Climate and Energy, IGES
CEO, i GRID SOLUTIONS Inc.
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
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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