Hironori Hamanaka is a highly-respected expert on Japanese environment policy with a career of over 40 years in the environmental field as a policymaker and academic.  As Director-General of the Global Environment Department of the then-Environment Agency, he was directly involved in the negotiations running up to the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.  From 2001 to 2004, he served as Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs at the Ministry of the Environment.  Professor Hamanaka is currently Chair of the Board of Directors at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and Project Professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University, Tokyo.

Professor Hamanaka will discuss the challenges and measures required in materializing the Cancun Agreement to bring about ‘fair and balanced results’ and achieve effective global participation in addressing climate change.

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