Online seminar: Climate Scenarios for the Financial Sector: The NGFS Workstream

  • Date：
    Fri, Nov 08, 2024
  • Time：
    16:00 - 17:00 (JST)
  • Location：
    Online - Zoom
  • Language：

    English

  • Host：

    Social scenario research program towards a carbon neutral society, JST Social Scenario Research Project

    Japan Model Intercomparison Platform (JMIP) for Sustainable Futures Research Unit, Institute for Future Initiatives, the University of Tokyo

  • Registration：

    Participation fee: free
    Registration by noon, November 7
    Applications will be closed when capacity is reached.

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Event Overview

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming online seminar in our seminar series of the JST Social Scenario Research Project “Social scenario research program towards a carbon neutral society “.

Dr. Ju, affiliated with IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) Vienna, Austria, will present the workstreams in the annual release of NGFS (Network for Greening the Financial System). The deliveries of participating model teams include long-term transition pathways, climate risk, and transition risk variables (see scenario portal here). Reviewers of scenario results are 130+ central banks and financial supervisors. How the feedback from central bank reviewers and financial sector users is collected and updated in release cycles will also be introduced.

The event will be moderated by Prof.Yasuko Kameyama at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo.

[About Dr. Ju Yiyi]
The presenter Dr. Ju Yiyi works as a research scholar in the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program in IIASA. She runs policy scenarios (e.g., on nationally determined contributions (NDCs), Net Zero, and 1.5°C) through the MESSAGE model to provide long-term mitigation pathways. These scenarios serve as input to multiple projects (e.g., NGFS, SSPs, ELEVATE funded by EU, CMIN funded by EFC). Her personal research interests focus on industrial decarbonization, financial risks of mitigation, and climate policy instruments. Before joining IIASA, she worked in Japan (University of Tokyo and Waseda University) for 5 years on energy economics.

[About the Project and the Seminar Series]
The JST Social Scenario Research Project aims to contribute to the realization of a carbon-neutral society in Japan, emphasizing sustainable development through science and technology. This initiative envisions a desirable future society and explores the pathways, options, and strategies to achieve it. Since April 2023, the project has expanded to integrate knowledge from a broad range of researchers, including those from the humanities and social sciences, fostering further development and societal contribution. A key aspect of the project is the “Social Scenario for Accelerating Carbon Neutral Transition,” focusing on both quantitative and qualitative analyses of carbon-neutral technologies, and developing strategies for societal implementation and system design. The seminar series with scenario experts is part of this effort, facilitating the exchange of knowledge and strategies to accelerate the transition to a carbon-neutral society.

Inquiry

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We held the first webinar of our webinar series of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) Project on Social Scenario Research for Realizing a Low-Carbon Society.
In this online seminar, Dr. Luis Sarmiento of the Central Bank of Mexico gave a lecture titled “Comparison of Decarbonization Scenarios Across the Atlantic: The Energy Modeling Forum of the United States and Europe.”

The lecture was based on a large-scale model comparison project on U.S. and EU climate strategies, published in the journal Energy and Climate Change in July 2024 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2024.100144). It shared the latest insights useful for ongoing policy discussions on Japan’s NDC and energy plans. In the Q&A session, topics such as the impact of greenhouse gases other than CO2 and the role of nuclear energy were discussed, highlighting the need for further research to achieve more robust results.

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