Press Release

December 09, 2015
  • Global Environment

"3rd JCM Partner Countries' High-level Meeting" was held in COP21

"3rd JCM Partner Countries' High-level Meeting" was held in COP21

Ministers and Representatives from 16 JCM partner countries and Japan have participated the "3rd JCM Partner Countries' High-level Meeting" held in 8 December, 2015 at Japan Pavilion in COP21 (Paris) as a side event. The Ministers and Representatives welcomed the progress in the JCM and shared their continuous will to further implement the JCM through mutual cooperation.

【List of Representatives】

H.E. Ms. Tamayo Marukawa, Minister of the Environment and H.E. Mr. Tsuyoshi Hoshino, Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan

H.E. Mr. Namdag Battsereg, Minister of Environment, Green Development and Tourism, Mongolia

H.E. Mr. Anwar Hossain Manju, Hon'ble Minister of Environment and Forests, Bangladesh

H.E. Dr. Shiferaw Teklemariam, Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ethiopia

Ms. Fatuma Hussein, Acting Director, Climate Change Secretariat, Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Kenya

H.E. Mr. Thoriq Ibrahim, Minister of Environment and Energy, Maldives

H.E. Mr. Tran Hong Ha, Vice Minister of Natural Resource and Environment, Viet Nam

Mr. Phouvong Luangxaysana, Director General, Department of Disaster Management and Climate Change, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Laos

H.E. Mr. Rachmat Witoelar, Minister and President's Special Envoy for Climate Change, Indonesia

H.E. Mr. Edgar Gutiérrez Espeleta, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica

H.E. Ms. Olai Uludong, Ambassador to the European Union and Climate Change, Palau

Dr. Tin Ponlok, Secretary General of the General Secretariat of National Council for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Environment, Cambodia

H.E. Mr. Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico

Mr. Khalid Abuleif, Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia

Mr. Juan Pedro Searle, Head of the Climate Change Unit, Ministry of Energy, Chile

H.E. Thet Thet Zin, Deputy Minister for Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Myanmar

Ms. Prasertsuk Chamornmarn, Executive Director, Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization, Thailand

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(Joint Crediting Mechanism)

Japan establishes and implements the JCM in order both to appropriately evaluate contributions from Japan to GHG emission reductions or removals in a quantitative manner achieved through the diffusion of low carbon technologies, products, systems, services, and infrastructure as well as implementation of mitigation actions in developing countries, and to use them to achieve Japan's emission reduction target.

Japan has established the JCM with 16 countries (Mongolia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, Maldives, Viet Nam, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Costa Rica, Palau, Cambodia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Myanmar and Thailand) as of Nov. 2015.

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