4th International Workshop on Clean Energy Development in Asian Cities

Date: 26 October 2018 (9:00-18:00)

Host and Venue: Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Chikushi Campus, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Organized by: Kyushu University Platform of Inter / Transdisciplinary Energy Science

Background

Cities throughout Asia have experienced an unprecedented economic development over the past decades. In many cases, this has contributed to their rapid and uncontrolled growth, and has resulted in multiple problems, which include a rapid population increase, enhanced environmental pollution, collapsing traffic systems, dysfunctional waste management, as well as a rapid increase in the consumption of energy, water, and other resources. The twin challenges of global climate change and energy insecurity in Asian cities can only be solved with the rapid devising of clean energy strategies, both for energy supply and energy efficiency. Thus, in an attempt to provide some viable solutions for clean energy strategy development in urban Asia, we aim to organize this annual expert workshop at Kyushu University.

Past workshops

The First International workshop on clean energy development in Asian cities (Technological and political perspectives) was held on 28-29 March 2016 at the Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University. The workshop was intended to be a forum to share the experiences about clean energy development and its applications in Asian cities.The main achievement of the first workshop was to create a knowledge sharing environment for further cooperation and dialogue between different scholars in order to identify challenges and possibilities. The workshop was attended by over 15 delegates from India, Japan, Europe, and the USA.

In continuation of the 1st workshop, the 2nd workshop (Learning from real cases) was organized on 22 Feb 2017 and held at the Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University to enable a sufficient amount of dialogue between scientists and policy‐makers for the specific case studies which may lead to the definition of new collaboration projects on clean energy development in Asian cities. The main objective of the 2nd workshop was set to address the case studies of successful clean energy solutions in Asian cities (India, China, and Japan).

The third workshop (Experiences from Asia and Latin America) took place from 1-3 Feb 2018 at the Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University which, was financially supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP). This comprehensive three-day workshop was built around a number of lectures from the Japanese and Brazilian experts in order to further explore best practices for sustainable urban energy system development. In addition, a hands-on exercise session was conducted in order to provide training for the Urban “Co-benefits Evaluation Tool”. Both Brazilian and Japanese scholars shared the outcomes and the used methodologies in their studies each other, including clean technology and new assessing methodology used in both countries.

Aim and Scope of the 4th workshop

The 4th workshop is designed to provide a solid understanding of key policies and instruments which can be developed in order to boost the capacity of societies to establish Low Emission Strategies Development (LEDS) in Asian cities and achieve the local and global goals of sustainable development. This workshop will capitalize on three hot topics:

1- Low Emission Strategies Development (LEDS) in Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur and Tehran:

a. How the concept of LEDS has evolved in the climate policy discourse in these cities

b. The gaps that LEDS could fill in these cities;

2- Lesson learned from the implementation of LEDS in Tokyo and Sydney

3- The future direction of LEDS in Asian cities from the point of view of the intersection between policy and technology.

Chairs

• Associate Professor  Hooman Farzaneh, IGSES, Kyushu University, Japan
• Professor Hideaki Ohgaki, IAE, Kyoto University, Japan

Scientific Committee

• Professor Jun Tanimoto, IGSES, Kyushu University, Japan
• Professor Takahiko Miyazaki, IGSES, Kyushu University, Japan
• Professor Aya Hagishima, IGSES, Kyushu University, Japan
• Professor Keiichi N. Ishihara, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Japan
• Associate Professor Benjamin McLellan, Graduate School of Energy Science, Kyoto University, Japan 
• Associate Professor Robert Lindner, Q-pit, Kyushu University, Japan

Keynote Speakers

• Associate Professor. GUO Ru, Tongji University, China
• Dr. Yusuke Kishita, The University of Tokyo, Japan
• Associate Professor Muhammad Aziz, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Nobue Amanuma, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan
• Professor  Damien Giurco, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Professor  Yadollah Saboohi, Sharif University of Technology, Iran
• Professor Nasrudin Abd Rahim, UM Power Energy Dedicated Advanced Centre, University of Malaya, Malaysia
• Professor Miguel Esteban, Global Center for Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan