Policy Seminar

Carbon pricing (emissions trading system, ETS, carbon tax, etc.) is set to be introduced in Japan in February 2023. In this webinar, experts will share their experiences, while METI Deputy Director-General will explain the current status of the system and discuss the ideal carbon pricing system for Japan.

In this webinar, the European Commission will explain the outline of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) while Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will discuss initiatives to build sustainable supply chains.

In this webinar, Mr. Hiroo Inoue from the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, will introduce Japan's efforts toward a hydrogen society and the latest developments in Japan-EU hydrogen cooperation.

In this webinar, panelists involved in GAIA-X, CATENA-X, Japanese date strategy and the Ouranos Ecosystem will provide insights about the overview and challenges, and will discuss on crucial topics such as the involvement of all players in the supply chain (especially SMEs) in this data linkage mechanism, ensuring data reliability, achieving globally interoperability, delineating optimal roles between the public and private sectors, and exploring possible industrial cooperation between Japan and the EU and the ideal framework for global data collaboration.

This event will look at recent developments to implement the regulation and will give participants an opportunity to put questions to the Commission experts.

The webinar will present the latest GX policies and specific progress, as well as comment on Japan's GX policy from a European perspective, exploring the Japan-EU Green Alliance. 

In this seminar, the Director-General of DG TAXUD of the European Commission, will talk about the current status, future measures and responses, and discuss together with related parties of Japan.

Organised by Kobe University and the VUB on 18 October 2022, the 12th Annual KUBEC high-level symposium ‘Blue Economy, Green Horizons: EU-Japan Research for Healthy, Sustainable Seas and Oceans’, presented key topical issues and breakthroughs in Ocean research, from the perspectives of economics and governance, technology and innovation, and social sciences. In front of a record audience of 130 participants, the event featured 43 EU and Japanese speakers, including DG RTD Director General (Acting) Signe Ratso, Japanese Ambassador Yasushi Masaki, Kobe University President Masato Fujisawa and Horizon Europe Mission Chairman and former WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy.