Seminar - Net Zero by 2050 in the UK and Japan
- 12 October 2021
- Online
- https://dajf.org.uk/event/net-zero-by-2050-in-the-uk-and-japan
- events@dajf.org.uk
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Many countries around the world are announcing pledges to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades to combat climate change, with a global goal to achieve net-zero by 2050 in order to limit global warming to a 1.5°C temperature rise. But there are crucial questions over how these targets can be hit. For instance, what does the transport and energy supply industry need to do to meet the 2050 target? And what are the biggest challenges in carbon reduction? In this webinar, the speakers will present on current policies and strategies, and the challenges we face in meeting these targets, focusing on how the UK and Japan are planning to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, including plans for low-carbon energy systems.
About the contributors
Jeffrey Hardy
Dr Jeffrey Hardy is a Senior Research Fellow at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, where he leads a team in the UK Energy Revolution Research Consortium examining the policy and regulation of smart local energy systems. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Public Power Solutions, Deputy Chair of the UK Power Networks Customer Engagement Group, and Director of Sustainable Energy Futures Ltd. Previously he was Head of Sustainable Energy Futures at the GB energy regulator, Ofgem and Head of Science for Work Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He’s also worked at the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the UK Energy Research Centre, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Green Chemistry Group at the University of York and at Sellafield as a research chemist in a nuclear laboratory.
Masamichi Hasebe
Professor Masamichi Hasebe is Professor in the Marine Science Faculty at Kobe University. He has worked for various government ministries and public bodies, including the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Economic Affairs Bureau, and the OECD’s Financial and Public Finance Bureau (Maritime Transport and Tourism Section). After gaining a Master’s in Law at University College London in 2000, he became Legal Councillor at the International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds. In 2006 he became Councillor to the Minister’s Secretariat at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and in 2012 Chief Researcher in the Research Proposal and Planning Office at the Daiwa Institute of Research. He was subsequently Councillor to the Minister’s Secretariat at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. He returned to Japan in 2021 and is currently active as a lecturer.
