Overview:

Sustainability transitions have attracted more and more attention from the academia, policy practitioners, and industries. While researchers have tried to gain insights for sustainable socio-technical transitions from historical trajectories, the geographical or political, socio-economic, and cultural contexts of different countries complicate the process of governing transitions. In this workshop, Asia-Pacific and European researchers are invited to discuss the challenges, possible pathways and cooperation towards sustainable transitions.

Organizers：

Technology Governance Policy Research Unit, Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo
Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), The University of Tokyo

Co-organizers：

H-UTokyo Lab. (Hitachi and U-Tokyo Joint Research) WG3, ANU-UTokyo Strategic Partnership

Language：English with simultaneous Japanese translation

Registration：

Advance registration is required.
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Program(tentative):

16:00-16:05 Opening remarks

Hideaki Shiroyama (Director of the Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo)

16:05-16:25 Presentations (Ⅰ-1) “Transition pathways to net-zero: Comparing different strategies”

Jochen Markard (Institute of Sustainable Development, Zurich University of Applied Sciences; Department of Management, Technology and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland)

16:25-16:45 Presentations (Ⅰ-2) “The historical dismantling of tramways in France as a case of destabilisation and phase-out of an established system”

Bruno Turnheim (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Science, Innovation and Society (LISIS), Gustave Eiffel University (UGE), France; Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), University of Manchester, UK)

16:45-16:55 “Japan’s socio-technical scenarios towards carbon neutrality by 2050: Report from the H-UTokyo Lab”

Hideaki Shiroyama (Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo)

16:55-17:15 “Local learning and global-local niche interaction: Deployment of solar photovoltaics in Japan”

Yi-chun Chen et al.
(Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo)

17:15-17:25 Break

17:25-17:45 Presentations (Ⅱ-1) “Mapping the 50-year evolution of scientific discussions about phase-outs as a tool to tackle sustainability challenges”

Gregory Trencher (Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)

17:45-18:05 Presentations (Ⅱ-2) “Japanese Incumbent Technology Strategies: Emissions Implications of Ammonia Co-combustion”

Llewelyn Hughes (Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University)

18:05-18:45 Open discussion

-Moderator: Hideaki Shiroyama (IFI, The University of Tokyo)
-All presenters, other researchers present

18:45-18:50 Closing remarks

Hideaki Shiroyama (Director of the Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo)

Contact:

Secretariat, Institute for Future Initiatives, UTokyo
Technology Governance Policy Research Unit
E-mail: ifi_tg[at]ifi.u-tokyo.ac.jp（replace [at] with @）