2024.11.12 Tue.
- 14:00 - 15:15
- Efforts to Realize Sound Material-Cycle Society through Multilevel Climate Action
- Organizer
- ICLEI Japan・Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
- Co-organizer
- Ministry of Environment, Japan
- Details
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Abstract
At COP28 in 2023, the host country, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), launched the “CHAMP” initiative, with over 70 countries, including Japan, committing to enhanced cooperation with local governments in areas such as strategy formulation, securing funding, implementation, and monitoring to address climate change and sustainable development issues, including Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). The importance of national-local government collaboration for sustainable development is increasingly recognized in global forums like the G7 and G20. In Japan, multi-level collaboration has advanced under the Sixth Basic Environmental Plan, aiming for a circular, symbiotic society by integrating initiatives for Net-zero, a circular economy, and nature-positive approaches. This session seeks to support national and local governments worldwide in progressing multi-level climate action toward NDC revisions by sharing domestic and international visions and initiatives for key challenges, such as decarbonizing the building sector.
Program
Opening Remarks
- TAKEMOTO Kazuhiko | Chair, ICLEI Japan
Opening Remarks
- ONO Hiroshi | Executive Director, IGES
Keynote
- MATSUZAWA Yutaka | Vice Minister for Global Environmental Affairs, MOEJ
High-Level Session
- KOIKE Yuriko | Governor of Tokyo
- SHIMIZU Hayato | Mayor of Saitama City
- Maimunah Mohd Sharif | Mayor of Kuala Lumpur
- Clécio Luis | Governor of Amapá State
- Yana Garcia | Secretary for Environmental Protection, CalEPA
- Niina Ratilainen | Member of Turku City Council
Action Session
- SHIMIZU Hayato | Ditto
- YB Datuk Seri Utama Ir Hasni bin Mohammad | Executive Chairman, Johor Sustainability Centre(Video message)
- FUJINO Junichi | Programme Director, Integrated Sustainability Centre, IGES
Closing Remarks
- MIYAZAKI Katsura | Executive Senior Vice President, JICA
- Session Summary
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In the high-level session, the first session, leaders representing local governments shared insights on specific climate change initiatives implemented by each municipality, the significance of multilevel collaboration, and efforts aimed at realizing a circular symbiotic society. The action session, the second session, highlighted the collaboration between Saitama City and the Johor Sustainability Centre on Sustainable Timber Construction, focusing on the development of sustainable wooden libraries in Johor. This initiative originally started as a SATREPS project in 2010.
Group Photo 
Scene 1 from High-level Session 
Scene 2 from High-level Session 
Family Photo Just after Preceded Signing Ceremony