Announcement of Seminar on City-to-City Collaboration for Zero Carbon Society 2025

  Cities are responsible for approximately 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption. As such, in order to achieve the Paris Agreement’s 1.5-degree target, it is vital that cities accelerate the transition to a decarbonized society, and address various urban issues such as environmental pollution and circular economy in an integrated manner. MOE Japan has been implementing the "City-to-City Collaboration Program for Zero Carbon Society (C3P)," based on the belief that knowledge sharing and technical cooperation through city-to-city partnerships are effective measures to support such a transition. Since its establishment in FY2013, 56 cities and regions in 13 countries mainly in Asia and 23 municipalities in Japan have participated in this program.
  This seminar will bring together C3P stakeholders and others from Japan and abroad who are working on local decarbonization, with aim to build momentum for local decarbonization and inspire a decarbonization domino effect both domestically and internationally. The seminar will be held in the vibrant and international city of Osaka, ahead of the opening of the Expo 2025 (theme: Designing Future Society for Our Lives) in April, 2025, with the expectation that it will generate synergy to bring about a decarbonized society.

Organiser: Ministry of the Environment (MOE), Japan

Co-Organiser: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

Venue: Congrès Convention Center (Grand Front Osaka North Building B2F) and online

Date/time: January 23, 2025, 10:00-12:30 JST (Registration at the venue 09:30 JST-)

How to participate: This seminar will be held in person and online (Japanese-English simultaneous interpretation will be provided). Pre-registration is required for participating in the session via the following website by January 21, 2025.
    https://www.iges.or.jp/en/events/20250123

Program: Presentations and discussions will be made by local governments in Japan and abroad which are participating in the City-to-City Collaboration Program for Zero Carbon Society (C3P), and companies which are actually engaging in overseas environmental business via the C3P.

• The latest information of the program will be updated accordingly on the following website of “Seminar on City-to-City Collaboration for Zero Carbon Society 2025”:   

　　　  https://www.iges.or.jp/en/events/20250123

• In addition to the seminar, closed session for mutual learning related to local decarbonization and excursion on decarbonization project are also scheduled.​

  

  Pre-registration is required to cover the event. Please send an email to register to the following email address by January 16, 2025. Describe the subject of the email as “Application to cover the Seminar on City-to-City Collaboration” and write your name, affiliation, and contact information in the main body of the email. If you wish to take pictures at the event site, state a request in the email. At the event site, present your ID card at the reception.

[Contact]
Office for International Cooperation for Transition to Decarbonization and Sustainable Infrastructure,
Global Environment Bureau, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
   Email:chikyu-infra@env.go.jp