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EU-JP Climate Change Seminar held at the Delegation

EU News 62/2014

17 February 2014

On 12 February, in a seminar co-organized by the Delegation of the European Union to Japan and the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, representatives from both the EU Commission's Directorate General in charge of climate change as well as from the Japanese Ministry of Environment (MoE) and the Ministry of Trade, Economy and Industry presented their respective institutions' assessment of last year's UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw. Moreover they shared their views on how to move forward towards an ambitious and legally binding climate change agreement by the year 2015 and compared notes on their experiences and domestic policy initiatives. Mr Jake Werksman, EU Chief Negotiator at the Conference in Warsaw, presented the recent Commission's proposal for a 2030 climate and energy framework while DG Soichiro Seki from MoE described "Actions for Cool Earth", Japan's Diplomatic Strategy for Countering Global Warming. With shared objectives and ambitions as well as common challenges, Japan and the EU will need to continue their close cooperation in order to tackle climate change and to steadily move towards an ambitious climate change agreement in 2015.

As the manager for a large Japanese company noted: "The seminar allowed me to get a just in time presentation of the New EU climate and energy framework for 2030."

Photos courtesy of the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation URL