Urban and Regional Carbon Management

International Workshop on Urban and Regional Carbon Management: Towards Low Carbon Cities - Understanding and Analyzing Urban Energy and Carbon

February 17 - 18, 2009
Nagoya, Japan

Organizers

Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
Global Carbon Project (GCP)
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES)

Co-sponsors

Ministry of Environment, Japan
Aichi Prefecture
Nagoya City
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

Venue: Noyori Conference Hall, Nagoya University
Address: Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan
Language: English

Aims

To link scholarly endeavors to policies and bridge research and policies;
To strengthen and develop networks in the area linking urban energy use, urban development and urban carbon management in the climate change mitigation context;
To share research results, modeling and analyses challenges, and to discuss ways to overcoming them;
To explore ideas for developing joint activities such as syntheses, harmonized cross-comparative studies, and policy analyses.

Event Structure

Day 1	Session 1	Urban System Modelling
		Dr. James Keirstead	Imperial College London
		Prof. Ram M. Shrestha	Asian Institute of Technology
		Mr. Aumnad Phdungsilp	Durakaji Pandit University
		Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal	Global Carbon Project
		Dr. Jiang Kejun	Energy Research Institute, China
		Dr. Yoshiki Yamagata	National Institute for Environmental Studies
		Dr. Fabio Grazi	Centre International de Recherche sur l’Environnment et le Developpment (CIRED)
		Dr. Richard Dawson	Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at New Castle University
		Prof. Simon Guy	Architecture Research Centre, The University of Manchester
	Session 2	Urbanization, Urban Form and Land Use in China
		Prof. Yingxin Zhu	Tsinghua University
		Prof. Haixion Pan	Tongji University Shanghai
		Prof. Chen Jin	Beijing Normal University
	Session 3	Study on the Strategic Urban Planning and Assessment of Low-Carbon Cities
	Project Members	Nagoya University	Prof. M. Okumiya, Prof. H. Shimizu, Prof. T. Takeuchi, Dr. A. Murayama, Dr. H. Kato, Dr. T. Kato, Dr. N. Sugiyama, Dr. A. Onishi, Dr. Y. Hirano, Dr. X. Cao, Dr. O. Higashi
		National Institute for Environmental Studies	Prof. T. Ichinose, Dr. S. Dhakal, Dr. Y. Yoshida
		Wakayama University	Dr. H. Tanikawa
		Hiroshima University	Dr. S. Kaneko
Day 2	Session 4	Energy and emissions: Accounting and Policy Implications
		Dr. Paty Romero Lankao	National Center for Atmospheric Research USA
		Dr. Julia Steinberger	Institute for Social Ecology Vienna
		Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal	Global Carbon Project
		Prof. Christopher Kennedy	University of Toronto
		Dr. Niels Schulz	Imperial College London
		Prof. Marilyn A. Brown, Prof. Frank Southworth	Georgia Institute of Technology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
	Session 5	Cities and Climate Change Initiatives
		Mr. Nigel Jolland	International Energy Agency
		Mr. Jan Corfee-Morlot	Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
		Dr. Steve Hammer	Columbia University
		Dr. Alvin Mejia	Clean Air Initiative-Asia Center
		Arnulf Grubler, Niels Schulz, Shobhakar Dhakal	IIASA/Imperial College/GCP
		TBD	Asian Development Bank
		TBD	The World Bank

Documentation

For the benefit of the larger community, all the outcomes will be posted on the website after the events (the files of speakers’ presentations will be posted subject to approval by the speakers).

Registration

This is a closed-workshop, in principle, aimed at invited experts. However, based on strong interests from relevant persons who can provide substantive inputs, few could be accommodated.

Please send pre-registration request to Ms. Yukako Ojima (ojima.yukako [at] nies.go.jp) or Dr. Osamu Higashi (higashi [at] urban.env.nagoya-u.ac.jp) with your name, your title and organization, and contact details.

Contact

For substantive information, please contact Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal, Global Carbon Project.