Environmental Technology

Global Environmental Policy 2005 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

Homepage of 2004 is here.
Homepage of 2003 is here.

last updated at 2005/7/12

「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（２単位）で、英語で行われます。

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２６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。
- なお、昨年度までのHP上に講義資料を残しておきますので、参考にして下さい。

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 26th July, 2005.
  - 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 report subjects are shown in the following table.

Past lecture slides and report subjects can be seen in these site (2004, 2003).

date	Lecturer (Assistant)	Contents	slide	Report subjects
12-Apr	.	The anniversary of the establishment of The University of Tokyo	.	.
19-Apr	J.Takahashi	Guidance Outline of this lecture series. How to make a policy? Population, Energy supply and consumption, Sectoral shear please read this to understand the next lecture Explanation of technical term and recommended books for Japanese students	ppt	-
26-Apr 10-May	K.Kobayashi@JFS (J.Takahashi)	Tapping into the Power of Communication Limits to Growth Equity, Sustainability, Sustainable development Group Discussion about sustainability * JFS: Japan for Sustainability	ppt1 ppt2 plus result press-j press-e press-a	1) What is sustainability? Explain some of the key concepts behind it and try to define it with your own words. 2) What is your vision and indicators of "sustainable Japan"? You can concentrate on any aspect, such as energy, food, and resources, to develop your idea.
3-May	.	National Holiday	.	.
17-May	T.Waseda	Climate Change and Related International Projects Coupled Atmospheric-Oceanic-Land System El Nino, Decadal Variability, Anthropogenic Change	ppt	Do some research on possible impacts of climate change related to the global warming and discuss the vulnerabilities of our society e.g. increase of diseases in South Asia, increasing storm damages in the Pacific Islands, extreme events (droughts, heavy rainfalls, high/low temperature etc.) Suggested reading: IPCC third assessment report Climate change 2001: The scientific basis and/or Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (TS or full report)
24-May 31-May 14-Jun	M.Akai@AIST (J.Takahashi)	?Energy and Environmental Policies The Road to Kyoto and Beyond R&D Programs, Technology Assessment Group Discussion AIST: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology	ppt1 plus ppt2 ppt3	Develop a wedge with explanation of (1) estimation procedures, and (2) comparison of current market scale, etc. Candidate technologies include; (1) CO2 capture and sequeatration, (2) Renewables (solar, wind, etc.), (3) efficiency improvement (vehicles, etc.), (4) shifting to low carbon fuel (natural gas).
7-Jun	T.Sato	Biological sequestration of CO2 Biomass, Ocean Nourishment, Photobioreactor	ppt	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.
21-Jun	H.Yamaguchi	International Collaborative Programme International collaboration between Japan, Russia and Norway Russian Arctic seas Geographic information system, GIS; Environmental database	ppt	Investigate the modern history of resource development and transportation in cold regions, and discuss the environmental issues.
28-Jun	H.Suzuki	Global Environment and Ocean Space Utilization Advanced Floating Structure Technology Global Environmental and Offshore Technology	ppt	Advanced technologies of 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.
5-Jul	R.Ugo@NEC (J.Takahashi)	Environmental Policy of Private Company Environmental report, Sustainability report, GRI Nontariff barriers, ISO, EMS, ISO14000s, PDCA Group Discussion NEC Corporation	ppt	Fill in your idea on the print distributed at the lecture.
12-Jul	J.Takahashi	Energy saving in transport sector Motorization and measures Group Discussion about energy saving and policy making	see ppt of 19th Apr	Under the condition of both sustainable development and equity mentioned in this lecture series, use statistics and formulate your own idea about how to reduce CO2 emission in civil and/or transport sector.