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Events – 2009
27 May 2009
Zero Emissions Symposium 2009
"The Green New Deal to Promote Environment and Economy"

Venue: UN House, Tokyo (Japan)
Organizers: UNU/ZEF
Language: Japanese & English

featured speakers include:

  • Cekuta, Robert F. (Embassy of the USA to Japan)
  • Fujimura, Hiroyuki (Chairman UNU/ZEF)
  • Kimura, Hidetoshi (Ministry of Environment)
  • Mitsuhashi, Tadahiro (Chiba University of Commerce)
  • Watanabe, Shoji (Agency for Natrual Resource and Energy)

>Programme

26 November 2008
Zero Emissions Symposium 2008
"Zero Emissions and Ecosystem - Conservation of Biodiversity by Zero Emissions Activities"

Venue: UN House, Tokyo (Japan)
Organizers: UNU/ZEF
Language: Japanese & English

featured speakers include:

  • Fujimura, Hiroyuki (Chairman UNU/ZEF)
  • Hibi, Yasushi (Conservation International)
  • Kuroda, Daisaburo (Ministry of Environment, Japan)
  • Osterwalder, Konrad (Rector, UNU)
  • Takeuchi, Kazuhiko (Vice-Rector, UNU)
  • Tani, Tatsuo (Ricoh Co., Ltd.)
  • Tuskada, Takahashi (Kajima Corporation)

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28 May 2008
Zero Emissions Symposium 2008
"Global Warming and Challenge towards Carbon Low Consumption Society"

Venue: UN House, Tokyo (Japan)
Organizers: UNU/ZEF
Language: Japanese & English

featured speakers include:

  • Bodin, Svante (Ministry of Environment, Sweden)
  • Fujimura, Hiroyuki (Chairman UNU/ZEF)
  • Osterwalder, Konrad (Rector, UNU)
  • Mitsuhashi, Tadahiro (ZEF Representative Local Government Network)
  • Tamura, Yoshio (Ministry of Environment, Japan)
  • Taniguchi, Masatsugu (ZEF Representative Business Network)
  • Tani, Tatsuo (RICOH Co. Ltd.)

>Programme

28 November 2007
Zero Emissions Symposium 2007
"Measure to Cope with Global Warming - Prospects and Advanced Measures Adopted today "

Venue: UN House, Tokyo (Japan)
Organizers: UNU/ZEF
Language: Japanese & English

featured speakers include:

  • Fry, Graham (British Ambassador to Japan)
  • Fujimura, Hiroyuki (Chairman UNU/ZEF)
  • Hato, Yuji (Matushsita Electrical Industrial Co.)
  • Ohno, Eishi (Toyota Motor Corp.)
  • Osterwalder, Konrad (Rector UNU)
  • Mitsuhashi, Tadahiro (ZEF Representative Local Government Network)
  • Rahm, Lars (Stockholm Water Co.)
  • Suzuki, Motoyuki (ZEF Representative Academia Network)
  • Watanae, Noriyuki (Johnson & Johnson)
  • Yamane, Ken (BMW Japan)

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04 September 2007
E-Waste Workshop
R07 Congress
Venue: Davos (Switzerland)
Organizers: EMPA & UNU/ZEF European Focal Point
Language: English
31 August 2007

Zero Emissions Forum in Akita

"Aiming at Resource Recycling Society through Collaboration of All Stakeholders"

Venue: Akita City (Japan)
Organizers: Akita City & UNU/ZEF
Language: Japanese
20 July 2007
Zero Emissions Forum in Shonai
"Resource-Recycling and Prevention of Global Warming through Local Energy Production and Utilization"
Venue: Sonai City (Japan)
Organizers: Shonai City & UNU/ZEF
Language: Japanese
30 May 2007
Zero Emissions Symposium 2007
"Global Warming and Low Carbon Society"

Venue: UN House, Tokyo (Japan)
Organizers: UNU/ZEF
Language: Japanese

featured speakers include:

  • Harasawa, Hideo (Director, Social and Environmental Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies)
  • Kondo, Hiroko, Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)
  • Kainuma, Mikiko (Center for Global Environmental Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies)

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19 April 2007

UN Briefing

"E-waste: the Underestimated Risk - Curses and Opportunities of an Increasing Problem

Venue: New York (USA)
Organizers: UNU-ONY, UNU-EHS & UNU/ZEF European Focal Point
Language: English

17 & 18 April 2007
StEP General Assembly
Venue: Andover, Massachusetts (USA)
Organizers: Hewlett Packard & UNU/ZEF European Focal Point
Language: English
26 January 2006
Zero Emissions Forum in Naha
Visions of "Sustainable Energy and Our Society"
Venue: Naha, Okinawa (Japan)
Organizers: Okinawa Prefecture & UNU/ZEF
Language: Japanese