Webinar "Assessing Net Zero: Integrity Review of 10 Japanese Companies"
Corporate net-zero and carbon neutrality commitments are becoming increasingly common. Climate Integrate is hosting a webinar to present the key findings and analysis from our report "Assessing Net Zero: Integrity Review of 10 Japanese Companies," which evaluates the transparency and environmental integrity of the climate targets of 10 major Japanese companies. We hope you can join us.
Date and time: Tuesday, May 16, 2023, 16:30–18:00
Format: Zoom webinar (first 500 registrants)
How to register: Registration closed
Program: <Opening remarks and moderator: Kimiko Hirata (Climate Integrate)>
- Introduction to the "Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor (CCRM)"
Takeshi Kuramochi (NewClimate Institute)
- Overview of the assessment results for 10 major Japanese companies
Hiroaki Odawara (Climate Integrate)
- Commentary and Q&A
Speakers
Takeshi Kuramochi
Senior Researcher, NewClimate Institute (Cologne, Germany); Visiting Researcher, Utrecht University, Netherlands
After completing his PhD at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, he worked at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) before taking up his current position. His main research focus is greenhouse gas emissions scenario analysis at the national, regional, local government, and corporate levels.
- ・Lead author, UN Environment Programme "Emissions Gap Report" (2016–present)
- ・Member, external peer review group for the UNFCCC Race to Zero campaign (2021–present)
- ・Member, Science Advisory Group, Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) (2021–present)
Selected publications (Google Scholar)
Recent publications in Japanese:
- ・Japan's 1.5°C Benchmark: Implications for Revising the 2030 Climate Target (Climate Action Tracker, March 2021)
- ・"Net Zero: Lessons from Efforts in Europe and the US" (Masahiro Sugiyama, Takeshi Kuramochi, Yukari Takamura, Energy and Resources, May 2021 issue)
Hiroaki Odawara
Program Director, Climate Integrate
Graduated from the Faculty of Economics, Hokkaido University, and completed graduate studies at the university's Graduate School of Public Policy. Joined the Ministry of the Environment in 2014. From 2015 to 2017, he was involved in developing soil environment policy, and from 2017 to 2019, he coordinated various national strategies, including a long-term strategy as a growth strategy under the Paris Agreement, and engaged in climate change negotiations and climate diplomacy at international conferences such as COP, the G7, and the G20. From 2019 to 2021, he supported climate capacity building in developing countries at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat before joining Climate Integrate.
Kimiko Hirata
Executive Director, Climate Integrate
After gaining experience with an environmental organization in the United States, she conducted research, analysis, and advocacy on international negotiations and climate change and energy policy at the NPO Kiko Network from 1998 to 2021. She has participated in the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC since COP3 in 1997. In recognition of her role in helping stop numerous planned coal-fired power plant construction projects as well as her shareholder proposals to financial institutions, she received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2021 (the third Japanese recipient, and the first Japanese woman to be awarded the prize). In 2022, she was named to the BBC's “100 Women” list. She founded Climate Integrate in 2022. Her major publications include "Climate Change and Politics: Achievements and Challenges of Climate Policy Integration," Seibundo (2021), and "Creating a Future Without Nuclear Power or Global Warming" (editor), Commons (2012). She is a visiting associate professor at the Graduate School of Chiba University of Commerce. She graduated from the University of the Sacred Heart and earned a PhD in social sciences at the Graduate School of Social Sciences, Waseda University.
Organizer: Climate Integrate Cooperation: NewClimate Institute