Tetsuji Ida

Senior Staff Writer & Editorial Writer (Environment, Energy and Development)

After graduating from Tokyo University (sociology of science and technology) Tetsuji started in journalism as a staff writer for Kyodo News in 1983, later serving as the Washington bureau’s science correspondent from 2001 to 2004 and in his current position since 2016. He is well versed in the topic of climate change, having reported on the issue since before the formal adoption of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 and serving as the main reporter for Kyodo News covering COP3 in Kyoto in 1997. He has reported from the frontlines on environmental, poverty, and conservation issues in many countries in Asia, Africa and South America for more than 30 years. He has covered many international conferences on multilateral environmental agreements, including the UNFCCC, CITES, CBD, Montreal Protocol, Ramsar Convention, WSSD, and Rio+20, and has authored or coauthored twenty books on topics ranging from primate conservation to climate change, fisheries resources, toxic chemicals, natural resources management, and the ocean environment.