June 21 (Sunday)
Lecture 5: Global Governance for Sustainability in the Context of Climate Change (Yukari Takamura, U Tokyo)
Keywords: Global Governance, Sustainability, Climate Change, Energy Transition, Non-State Actors, Finance
Lecture 6: Progress of environmental protection policy toward the sustainable society (Teruyoshi Hayamizu, Ibaraki U)
Japan experienced serious local environmental pollution and then faced global issues. In order to conquer them, environmental protection policy has been developed and enhanced. This lecture first explains the history of local and global environmental problems and how the environmental protection policy has been developed and enforced in Japan, especially for pollution prevention and control. Then the lecture focusses on the current principles and framework of environmental protection policy to move toward the sustainable society with SDGs, including their background and application, and finally discusses the remaining and emerging challenges.
Lecture 7: Sustainable resource and energy consumption by the advanced technology (Satoshi Konishi, Kyoto U)
Innovative energy technology and its possible application is lectured and evaluated, with nuclear fusion as a reference. Energy systems can be analyzed from its supply chain under the constraints of resource, transportation, response to the demands, as well as waste management and environmental impacts. Energy technology is inevitable for the modern society and its economic activities, and at the same time has various risks and external costs through environmental and social pathways. This lecture will provide a new methodology to consider the energy technology from the aspects of sustainable development.
Lecture 8: COVID-19 and SDGs - Global and local perspectives (Takashi Mino, U Tokyo)
The COVID-19 pandemics have been affecting the whole world in different ways and the humanity are forced to reform the society accordingly. The present lecture will discuss the relationship between SDGs and the pandemics and how we should design possible post-corona society. The COVID-19 case is an important example to also discuss global and local perspectives of SDGs.
June 27 (Saturday)
Lecture 9: Building a Sustainable Society in Harmony with Nature (Kazuhiko Takeuchi, U Tokyo)
The global spread of COVID-19 infections serves to remind us of the coexistence between nature and human society. Today, the world is under pressure to deal with two major global environmental challenges: climate change and biodiversity loss. Especially in the field of biodiversity, we need a new Post 2020 Biodiversity Framework for 2030. This lecture will take a look back at efforts made over the past 10 years on biodiversity conservation including the Satoyama Initiative, and I will describe measures for establishing a sustainable society in harmony with nature through transformative changes, such as a decentralized and self-sustaining Regional/Local Circulating and Ecological Sphere (Regional/Local CES) proposed by the Japanese 5th Basic Environment Plan.