Global Environmental Policy 2004 Homepage

lectured by Jun Takahashi and Makoto Akai

for Graduate School, Summer, Tuesday 5th (16:30-18:10)
ROOM 33, first Floor of the 3rd Building of Engineering Faculty

last updated at 2004/7/13

「国際環境政策」説明（for Japanese Students）

• 本講義は、大学院工学系研究科環境海洋工学専攻における地球環境コースの認定科目です。
  • 学期、曜日、時間、教室、単位、使用言語：　夏学期、火曜、５限（16:30-18:10）、工3号館１F34号講義室、２単位、英語

• 成績評価は出席半分、レポート半分の重みで行います。
  • 毎回の講義に対して講義終了時にアンケート用紙を提出して出席１回とみなされます。
    • このアンケートは日本語で書いてもかまいませんが、極力英語で表現するようにしてください。
    • アンケートに質問を書いている人がいますが、オムニバス講義なので回答するチャンスがありません。回答が必要な質問は高橋教官宛にメールで送って下さい。
  • 講師ごとにレポート課題が出されますので、その中から２つを選んで７月２７日（火）までに環境海洋工学専攻事務室に提出してください。
    • 各レポートはＡ４用紙で３ページ以上。言語は日本語でも英語でも構いません。詳しくはアンケート用紙を見てください。
    • 講義スケジュール、講義で使用した資料、各講師のレポート課題は下の表を見てください。
      • アンケートに、使用するスライドを事前にアップロードしてもらえないかという要望があります。できる限りそのようにしていきたいとは思いますが、日々ダイナミックに情勢の変化する環境・エネルギー問題において古い資料はどんどん価値が無くなってしまうため、各講師ともできるだけ最新の情報を伝えようとしていることも理解して下さい。

Contents of "Global Environmental Policy"

• Assessment: attendance 50%, report 50% (see questionnaire)
  • To get the credits from this lecture series, you need to submit two reports of the homework subjects to the post set in front of the administration office (3rd floor) in Building 3 by 27th July, 2004.
    • Each report must be more than three pages of A4 size paper without a cover sheet.
    • Each report needs the information of your ID number, name, department, subjects and a lecturer’s name. You must write this information at the upper part of the first page of each report.
• Keywords: Global Environments, Environmental Technology, Policy Making
• Objectives:
  • This class is one of the required course for the Joint Program "Greenhouse Gas Mitigation" with the University of Sydney, Australia.
  • Energy and resource are limited, and some global environmental crises are predicted by IPPC. This omnibus lecture series will explain why and how to make the policy for global environmental and energy issues, and what kinds of technologies are expected to solve them.
  • Concerning the environmental and energy issues, advanced researches conducted in Department of Environmental and Ocean Engineering will be introduced.
• Outcomes: Students will be able to get the following information systematically;
  • Current topics concerning global environmental and energy issues,
  • How to make the world and national policy,
  • Environmental technologies and their role in the policy,
  • Advanced environmental researches.

• Schedule and homework subjects are shown in the following table.

  date	Title (materials used in the lecture are linked)	Lecturer (Assistant)	Key Words	Homework subjects (Yellow ones are those of last year. Those of this year will be decided after each lecture, respectively.)
  13-Apr	Guidance [ppt]	J.Takahashi	Outline of this lecture series, How to make a policy?	-
  20-Apr	Statistical information and interpretation for the decision making [ppt]	J.Takahashi	Population, Energy supply and consumption, Sectoral shear, Energy saving -- where and how?	-
  27-Apr	What’s equity, and What’s sustainability? [ppt]	J.Edahiro (J.Takahashi)	Equity, Sustainability, Sustainable development	Visit JFS website (www.japanfs.org) and, (1) Discuss what you found in activities and movement for sustainability in Japan, (2) Propose improvement points for JFS activities. In case of Japanese students, please read 「がんばっている日本を世界はまだ知らない」 too.
  4-May	National Holiday	.	.	.
  11-May	Overview on International Aspects [ppt]	M.Akai	?The Road to Kyoto and Beyond, Recent topics, Climate change, Global worming, UNFCCC, IPCC	-
  18-May	Energy and Environmental Policies [ppt]	M.Akai (J.Takahashi)	R&D Programs, Technology Assessment	-
  25-May	Challenge towards Deep GHG Reduction [ppt]	M.Akai (J.Takahashi)	Kyoto target, Deep reduction of CO2, Mitigation Scenario	Discuss about CO2 capture and sequestration.
  1-Jun	Overview of Global and Climate Change and Related International Projects [ppt]	T.Waseda (J.Takahashi)	Coupled Atmospheric-Oceanic-Land System, El Nino, Decadal Variability, Anthropogenic Change, Simulation, Prediction	Select from below: (1) Given the uncertainties in the current Global Change prediction models, justify the need for further climate research from a view point of an environmental policy decision maker. (2) Given the uncertainties in the current Global Change prediction models, disprove the need for climate research from a view point of an environmental policy decision maker.
  8-Jun	Environmental Policy of Private Company [ppt]	R.Ugo (J.Takahashi)	Environmental report, Sustainability report, GRI, Nontariff barriers, ISO, EMS, ISO14000s, PDCA	Discuss about the followings: (1) What's your idea to the Environmental Regulations, for example "Carbon Tax"? (2) If you were a president of a venture company, do you approve the Environmental Regulations or oppose ? (Approval means that you give higher priority to Environment protection than business.) (3) How do you take a balance between Environment and your business !?
  15-Jun	Tapping into the Power of Communication [ppt]	K. Kobayashi (J.Takahashi)	Environmental NGO, Environmental communication, Information dispatch and exchange, JFS website	.
  22-Jun	LCA and strategic R&D of ultra-fuel efficient automobiles [ppt]	J.Takahashi	Ultra-Lightweight Materials, Passenger car, Truck, Bus, LCA, LCC, Recycle	Under the condition of both sustainable development and equity mentioned in this lecture, use statistics and formulate your own idea about how to reduce CO2 emission in civil and/or transport sector.
  29-Jun	Biological sequestration of CO2 [ppt]	T.Sato	Biomass, Ocean Nourishment, Photobioreactor	Estimate the cost of the forestation, which Japanese industries have been recently invested in foreign countries, such as Australia, with respect to the unit carbon dioxide (US$ or JPY/tCO2). Just pick up one example.
  6-Jul	International Collaborative Programme, INSROP; INSROP GIS; Trial Voyage [ppt]	H.Yamaguchi	International collaboration between Japan, Russia and Norway; Russian Arctic seas; Geographic information system, GIS; Environmental database	Investigate and discuss the feasibility of the development of Russian polar regions including Okhotsk area from technological, economical, social and environmental aspects.
  13-Jul	Global Environment and Ocean Space Utilization [ppt]	H.Suzuki	Advanced Floating Structure Technology, Global Environmental and Offshore Technology	Advanced technologies in Ocean Engineering were introduced concerning the environmental and energy issues. Propose a new concept and system to ease one of the global environmental issues using a Mega-Float, and describe details of the system to realize the concept.

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