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令和6（2024）年度東京大学大学院公共政策学教育部専門職学位課程（公共政策大学院）入学試験合格者（一般選抜）は、以下のPDFファイル記載のとおり。 合格者（PDF）

A1A2「CAMPUS Asia Joint Course: Public Policy in Japan」履修者募集！ 福島県双葉町へのフィールドトリップや総務省の若手官僚との課題解決型演習 本講義では、地方自治体や中央省庁の政策担当者と連携し、日本の自治体が抱える問題について実践的な講義を予定しています。今年度は福島県の双葉町を題材に、地域復興をテーマとします（テーマは若干変更されうる点に注意してください）。本講義では福島からのゲストの講義や、中央省庁への訪問、フィールド・トリップ、グループワークで構成されます。総務省の現役官僚が複数名参加することを予定しています。学生は、複数のグループに分かれて総務省の官僚とともに課題解決型の演習に取り組んで、最後にプレゼンテーションを行います。 本講義にはキャンパス・アジアの学生が参加するため、各チームはアジア出身の学生で構成されます。本講義に参加することで、東大在学中にアジア各国に知人を作りたい、将来アジアで活躍したいという学生を歓迎します。 評価方法などは初回のオリエンテーションで説明します。本講義はA1A2の水曜日の5・6限ですが、2単位の講義であるため、講義がない週もあります。また、講義の性質上、グループワークが存在しますが、グループ内でのワークについてはグループ毎に時間を設けてもらうこと、また、フィールドトリップは週末に実施されるなど、若干不規則になる点に注意してください。講義における言語は英語になります。 本講義において、12月の土日に福島県のフィールドトリップを実施する予定です。（1泊2日を予定しており、福島県双葉町周辺で宿泊予定です。現在、12月9日～12月10日を予定していますが、変更の可能性がある点に注意してください）。 東京大学から福島への移動費（貸し切りバス）、宿泊費（その間の食費）は東大負担を予定していますが、それ以外は原則、自己負担になる点に注意してください（コロナの状況次第では中止になる可能性がある点にもご留意ください）。 フィールドトリップの実施などから、本講義の参加者に上限があります。そのため、希望者の人数がクラスの上限を超えた場合、英語のスコアなどをベースにセレクションをする点にご留意ください（講義の性質上、キャンパス・アジアにアプライすることが確定している学生、フィールドトリップに参加することが確定している学生が優先される点に注意してください）。 参加希望の学生は9月25日（月）9月28日（木）までに下記についてexchange.j@gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jpに提出してください。セレクションがある場合、その結果については東大の事務から連絡します。履修者は必ず10月4日（水）の初回オリエンテーションに参加してください。なお、キャンパス・アジアに既に所属している学生は本講義の履修が必須となるため、下記の提出は不要です。 ＜下記をメールに記載・添付してください＞ ・氏名、所属コース、学年 ・最新のTOEFLのスコア（添付の上、提出） ・キャンパス・アジアへアプライする予定（確定、未定、参加なし） ・フィールドトリップへ参加する予定（確定、未定、参加なし） ・A4 1ページ以内で、Statement of Purpose（英語）を記載してください。  

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The effect of energy use on social development and outcomes cannot be understated. From the use of fuel for cooking to renewable energy for electrification and heating, studies of country data positively correlate energy consumption and benefits to life expectancy, literacy rates, GDP and the Human Development Index. A concept called the energy-development nexus is a central tenet in the theory and practice of development policy. The authors point out a less known side to this nexus in which distributed, sustainable energy provides a role in crisis settings and state building to empower vulnerable communities, such as conflict, refugee and other critically marginalised groups. One study from the UK’s Department for International Development highlighted that in countries prioritised as fragile and conflicted-affected situations in 2014, 43% of the population had electricity access, compared to 58% in other countries. The situation has been characterised in a World Bank study as “a central economic dimension of the so-called ‘conflict trap’: a sub-optimal equilibrium whereby poor performance in the energy sector therefore not only results from violence, but may also be one factor that creates the structural conditions for a continuation of violence.” The authors argue that consideration of multiple intersecting dimensions is required to address this effectively. Energy types (such as household fuel, electricity, and mechanical power) must be matched with energy infrastructure (such as centralised or decentralised), end users (including households, businesses, and community), level of access, service quality and access cost. In any given context, design dimensions can be informed by practical considerations. For example, in conflict scenarios, there are added concerns that any investment into centralised production might end up vulnerable to attack. Theft and conscientious management by operators can pose other complications. By weighing up the scale of provision, consideration of options provided by modern decentralized electricity may supplement unreliable grid access, while also helping the environment in the case of renewable energy. In their central outlook for the use of energy for peace, the authors cite studies on the microeconomic impacts of electrification in developing countries. Overall well-being was assessed to be improved. However, the impact across scenarios was varied. To better understand the conditions for promoting socioeconomic changes, the authors conclude there is an opportunity for academic researchers to collaborate with developers in project design, deployment and assessment. They add that future implications must be considered in any design for electricity provision. This includes avoiding dependencies that could lead to vulnerability to high prices, and implementing modular systems which can adapt to future needs and grid connections. Importantly, local needs can only be effectively addressed by partnering with local communities, organisations and businesses. The book’s main analysis comes from examinations of key crisis situations around the world, broken down into three parts. The first looks at how energy policy over coal has widened social divisions in Kosovo and Vietnam. In Kosovo, the lock-in of massive usage of domestic coal has continuously degraded the quality of life, especially among socially excluded people. In Vietnam, NIMBY objections to the location of a coal-fired power plant stirred tensions between the central and the local. The second part explores how a different type of energy provision can help foster social inclusion. In Columbia, improvement to electricity access is vital for the large number of people displaced by past civil conflicts, not only for their livelihood but also for social inclusion. This mechanism is also identified in Myanmar, where electricity in refugee camps is a trigger for social inclusion. The third part highlights the decision-making process in this context. In Rohingya camps in Bangladesh, the politics of energy development discourse are held far from the refugees themselves, endangering the mechanism of social inclusion examined in the previous part. In contrast, case studies in India have shown the importance of participatory decision-making for social inclusion. In South Sudan, the importance of recognising the relation between renewable energy and peace building is highlighted by its innovative financing mechanism called the Peace Renewable Energy Credit. For each of these crisis settings, the authors offer their assessment for future energy development, including the roles of international organisations, local stakeholders and access programs, as well as opportunities for nation building and sustainability; which could one day encompass not only energy, but peace for all.   Publication information Energy Policy for Peace, 1st Edition - August 23, 2023, Academic Press Editors: Daniel Kammen, Hisashi Yoshikawa, Kensuke Yamaguchi Paperback ISBN: 9780128173503 eBook ISBN: 9780128173510 https://shop.elsevier.com/books/energy-policy-for-peace/kammen/978-0-12-817350-3   Edited by Clement Ng Image by creativeart on Freepik

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  GraSPP Research Seminar—Economic Policy, Finance & Development Series― Green Finance in Addressing Climate Change Impacts in ASEAN+3 Date & time     Friday, October 6, 2023 | 18:30-20:00 Venue Lecture Hall B, 4th floor, International Academic Research Building, Hongo campus Language   English Registration This is an in-person seminar open to the public. Please register here. Abstract Climate change is a global challenge that is overwhelming the capacity of Planet Earth and its ecosystems. The resulting adverse consequences threaten people’s livelihoods and well-being. Therefore, it is our urgent task to address these challenges to humanity. Failure to do so may lead to worldwide societal collapse or even eventual human extinction before the end of the 21st century. This seminar focuses on the impacts of climate change on ASEAN+3 economies, discusses their implications for financial markets, and explores the role of green finance as a solution. Yonsei University’s Graduate School of Environmental Finance has been working with the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) on climate change risks in the context of ASEAN+3 Climate Initiatives. Program Introduction by Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa Session 1    Economic impacts of climate change and the implications for financial markets by Prof. Seong-Hoon Kim, Yonsei University Introduction to the climate change index Macroeconomic impacts of climate change on ASEAN+3 economies Implications for financial markets and investment decisions Session 2    Green finance as a solution by Prof. Suk Hyun, Yonsei University Introduction to green finance: concepts and definitions How green finance can mitigate the climate change impacts Green bonds and sustainable investments Session 3    Panel discussion moderated by Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa How to adapt financial strategies to climate realities Potential and challenges of green finance -Discussants Prof. Chung Sik Yoo, Yonsei University Ms. Mami Negishi, Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. Prof. Seong-Hoon Kim Prof. Suk Hyun, Yonsei University About the speakers and discussants Professor Chung Sik Yoo is an accomplished academic and thought leader. He has dedicated over three decades to economic development, energy and environment, and neoclassical political economy. Earning his BA and MA from Yonsei University, he further honed his skills with an MA and PhD from U.C. Berkeley. Since 1992, he has been a faculty member of the Department of Economics at Yonsei University's Future Campus. His commitment to Yonsei University extended into administrative roles from 2010 to 2012, where he served as the head of the Academic Information Office and as the dean of the College and Graduate School of Political Science and Economics. Since 2019, he has been the principal professor for the Yonsei-KOICA Long-Term Master's Program. He has also been an editorial board member for prestigious journals like the Korean Economic Review and held vice-presidential roles in various economic and regional studies associations in Korea. Ms. Mami Negishi joined Daiwa Securities in 2004, specializing in the bond market, with 14 years of experience in bond trading and the Debt Capital Market Department. She has been engaged in advisory services for bond issuances by various issuers, including local governments and corporations. With extensive overseas experience, working in IB operations in Singapore and Vietnam, she has been Managing Director of the Sustainability Solutions Department since April 2023. Ms. Negishi holds a master's degree in International Public Policy from Osaka University. Professor Seong-Hoon Kim is a Research Professor at the Graduate School of Environmental Finance at Yonsei University–Mirae, Korea. He earned his PhD in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2013. His research focuses on the causes of business cycles and their transmission mechanisms, with the principal emphasis on the roles of misperception and mispricing. His recent research includes the economic impacts of climate change and how people's misperceptions and mispricing of carbon amplify the impacts. Professor Suk Hyun is the head professor of the Graduate School of Environmental Finance at Yonsei University. Before joining East Asia International College (EIC) at Yonsei University in 2018, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California Department of Economics and a research fellow at the Korea Capital Market Institute (KCMI). He worked as an economist at the Bank of Korea from 2009-2010 and spent three years from 2006-2009 in Japan as a bond market specialist at Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). His expertise lies in international finance, the bond market, and the Japanese economy, with recent research covering infrastructure bonds, green bonds, capital market development, and financial integration in Asia. He has a bachelor's degree in economics from Yonsei University and earned his master's degree and PhD in economics from Keio University. Professor Toshiro Nishizawa has been a full-time faculty member of The University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP) since July 2013 after serving at the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). Early in his career, he spent years working at Japan’s EXIM Bank, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the IMF, and the World Bank. Prof. Nishizawa has been actively engaged in policy dialogue and research activities with his interests in Asian economies, financing for development, Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs), and sovereign debt. He holds a BA in Latin American studies from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (1982), a BA in economics from the University of Tokyo (1984), and an MSc in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1988).   For inquiry Professor Toshiro Nishizawa | tnishizawa<at>pp.u-tokyo.ac.jp Please replace <at> with @.

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GraSPP has been working closely with Viet Nam’s Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment to enhance intellectual exchange between Japan and Viet Nam since 2015 with the financial support of the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO). GraSPP and CIEM provide a summary of the discussion at the most recent workshop.

On February 15, 2023, GraSPP and CIEM hosted the Viet Nam-Japan Policy Research Forum Workshop 2023 titled “Promoting Japan-Viet Nam Cooperation for Green Growth after the Pandemic.” The workshop at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Hanoi, certified as a program to celebrate the 50th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Japan and Viet Nam, attracted more than 70 participants from government, academia, business, professional associations, international organizations, and the media.

Background

Acknowledging the adverse consequences of climate change, all countries are working on plans to reduce carbon emissions along with efforts to heal the pandemic damages. In its economic restructuring process, Viet Nam also reaffirmed its commitment to reducing carbon emissions by 2030. In October 2021, the Government of Viet Nam approved “the National Green Growth Strategy for 2021-2030, vision towards 2050.”

While the strategy and government commitment are a welcome step in the right direction, Viet Nam needs to build capacity for green growth, including access to environment-friendly technology and adequate human resources. Against this background, Viet Nam must collaborate effectively with foreign partners and investors. Given economic ties and a shared understanding between the two countries on the importance of green growth, deepening cooperation with Japan is essential.

The workshop aimed to provide a platform for sharing experiences and perspectives on Japan-Viet Nam cooperation for green growth. A summary of the workshop discussion was shared with policymakers in Viet Nam.

The workshop was the eighth of the international workshops GraSPP and CIEM had jointly hosted since 2015.

Opening session

Dr. Tran Thi Hong Minh, President of CIEM, declared the workshop’s opening and illustrated the rapidly changing global and regional trends over the past years, especially emerging geopolitical tensions and the disruptive crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. President Tran Thi Hong Minh then described how Viet Nam, as a developing and highly open economy, suffered from many direct and indirect impacts of climate change and how proactive Viet Nam had been to mitigate such impacts. She continued that, to realize its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, Viet Nam had introduced various policies and regulations to promote green growth and a circular economy with an emphasis on cooperation with international partners. As a leading economic partner for Viet Nam over decades, she added, Japan signed with Viet Nam in 2021 a cooperation agreement on low-carbon growth for 2021-2030 and implemented a comprehensive support program for the energy transition in Viet Nam through the Asian Energy Transition Initiative (AETI). President Tran Thi Hong Minh encouraged the speakers and participants to discuss the current development context and key trends and make recommendations, especially regarding the directions of Viet Nam-Japan cooperation, to strengthen green growth after the pandemic. She expressed special thanks to TIFO for financial support and GraSPP for its long-standing partnership with CIEM in organizing the annual series of Viet Nam-Japan Policy Research Forum workshops.

Mr. Kazuo Kusakabe, Chief Representative of Hanoi Representative Office of Toshiba Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, following his congratulatory address to the host organizations, highlighted that Viet Nam needed to continue promoting projects in support of green growth to achieve the carbon neutrality target by 2050 and address climate change adaptation. Mr. Kusakabe also gave an overview of Toshiba’s programs to promote green growth, such as those related to air quality, waste and wastewater treatment, and waste robot systems, among others, to promote sustainable and green growth as its business goal. He added that Toshiba was one of the leading suppliers of generators and thermal power plants while developing renewable energy and intelligent transportation systems.

Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa from GraSPP shared his excitement to host Viet Nam-Japan Policy Research Forum’s annual dialogue offline for the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and expressed appreciation to the TIFO for its long-standing generous support since 2015. Prof. Nishizawa described the world as full of persistent uncertainties and risks while referring to “polycrisis,” which had become a buzzword since the January World Economic Forum’s Davos summit. He continued that climate-change-related risks were one of the biggest threats facing us as part of polycrisis: “a cluster of related global risks with compounding effects, such that the overall impact exceeds the sum of each part.” Despite such dismal prospects, Prof. Nishizawa shed light on the two bright spots: a radical shift in recent years in the development paradigm toward a green economy and green growth and the enduring bilateral cooperation between Viet Nam and Japan for the past decades. Given these two bright spots, he encouraged the participants to exchange their thoughts and innovative ideas to enhance bilateral cooperation and address the global green agenda in challenging times.

Session 1. Development context inducing efforts to promote green growth

Speaker: Dr. Vo Tri Thanh, President, Brand and Competitiveness Strategy Institute

Commentator: Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP, The University of Tokyo

Moderator: Dr. Tran Thi Hong Minh, President, CIEM

Dr. Vo Tri Thanh illustrated the mainstreaming of green, sustainable, inclusive, and creative development agenda in recent years and the challenges facing Viet Nam. He continued that many economies, including Viet Nam and Japan, had actively promoted green growth and sustainable development initiatives and incorporated green economy concepts into international cooperation agreements. Dr. Vo Tri Thanh pointed out that Viet Nam, one of the countries most affected by climate change, had implemented Green Growth Strategies since 2012 but achieved only three out of 12 targets for 2011-2020 without satisfactory spillover effects, suggesting difficulties in implementing such commitments.

Dr. Vo Tri Thanh considered the circular, digital, and blue economies and ensuing green growth essential for green economy and sustainable development. According to calculations by international organizations and the Ministry of Planning and Investment, he referred to Viet Nam’s potential need for additional funding of $368 billion to implement green transformation. Dr. Vo Tri Thanh concluded that to achieve the goal of net zero emissions by 2050, Viet Nam would need to strengthen international cooperation and find solutions to mobilize domestic and international capital.

Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa agreed with Dr. Vo Tri Thanh’s perspective on the global and regional trends toward a green economy and growth. He interpreted Dr. Vo Tri Thanh’s main thrust as describing changing perceptions in the development paradigm. He illustrated such perceptional changes as sustainable and inclusive development rather than mere economic growth, green rather than brown, or in other words, clean rather than dirty, green tends from physical to digital and from the market-dominance to the revival of the role of state and society.

Prof. Nishizawa emphasized the roles of government, enterprises, and markets in promoting a green economy and establishing an inclusive development model. He admitted that inadequate policy design remained prevalent while market pressure could change consumer behavior and increase competition. He, however, expressed concern about greenwashing and proposed that public policy needed to help reduce short-term trade-offs and profit-making incentives and, at the same time, increase social incentives toward a green economy. He concluded that the transformation cost might be high for the economy and businesses, but the process would create higher benefits in the long term.

Dr. Tran Thi Hong Minh agreed with Dr. Vo Tri Thanh about the achievements in sustainable development and challenges that Viet Nam would face in the coming years. She considered the Green Growth Strategy and Circular Economy Scheme as two basic foundations for green growth implementation in Viet Nam. She emphasized that a circular economy model had been in Viet Nam for a long time, especially in the agricultural sector, and a legal basis for developing a circular economy had been formulated. She added that CIEM was assigned a task to develop a draft decree on a circular economy in priority areas for submission to the government this year. Dr. Tran Thi Hong Minh illustrated how Viet Namese businesses had actively implemented the principles of a circular economy to balance economic and environmental benefits.

Session 2. Key areas enabling green growth in Viet Nam

Speaker: Prof. Tomonori Sudo, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Commentator: Dr. Doan Thi Thanh Ha, Economist, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)

Moderator: Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP, The University of Tokyo

Prof. Tomonori Sudo praised Viet Nam’s proactive and active responses to climate change challenges as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. He shared his thoughts on the definition and approach of sustainable development while describing such key notions as environmental (natural and renewable) capital, economic capital, and social capital. He illustrated how environmental capital would be degraded if renewable capital is lower than demand and thus unable to contribute to enhancing economic and social capital. He suggested that sustainable development should ensure a conversion of environmental capital into economic and social capital, and green factors would be a new source of economic and social development. Prof. Sudo gave five keynotes for green growth: people and economies were directly affected by stress on natural resources and environmental risks; green growth would secure a more sustainable future and could lead to considerable economic and social benefits; green growth would require reconciling short-term priorities with long-term sustainable development goals; efforts on green growth were recent and still limited in scope; and a twin-track policy agenda was needed to guide national and international action on green growth in developing countries. Prof. Sudo concluded that green growth was theoretically ideal and viable, and Viet Nam had enough potential to grow by following a green growth path.

Dr. Doan Thi Thanh Ha highlighted the cost of pursuing green growth, especially in the context of developing countries. Dr. Doan Thi Thanh Ha then elaborated on some challenges for Viet Nam, such as the high ratio of unskilled labor force and raw materials exports. She questioned how to convert the unskilled labor force into a skilled workforce and how much it would cost. She illustrated that the production process of electric vehicles in Viet Nam could harm the environment with the lack of strict standards for environmental protection, unlike in developed countries. Dr. Doan Thi Thanh Ha concluded that an essential precondition for addressing the challenges facing Viet Nam would be to acquire knowledge and experience from other countries.

Session 3. Directions and recommendations for Japan and Viet Nam to deepen cooperation for green growth

Speaker: Mr. Nguyen Anh Duong, Director, Department for General Economic Issues and Integration Studies, CIEM

Commentator: Mr. Yoshitomo Kubo, Senior Representative, JICA Viet Nam Office

Moderator: Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP, The University of Tokyo

Mr. Nguyen Anh Duong pointed out that green recovery became imperative after the COVID-19 pandemic, but there emerged a risk of green growth becoming a tool of strategic rivalry across economies without coordinated efforts. He illustrated challenges facing the Asia-Pacific region, such as climate change, identified as one of the highest risks to growth and the supply chain disruption becoming more complicated after the pandemic and Russia-Ukraine conflict. He suggested that adapting the supply chain to sustainable development standards became essential.

Mr. Nguyen Anh Duong provided an overview of Viet Nam’s approach to promoting the achievement of sustainable development goals and green growth, such as the Green Growth Strategy in 2021, the National Action Plan on Green Growth in 2022, the Action Plan for Methane Emissions Reduction in Viet Nam by 2030 in 2022, and the Scheme on Promoting Circular Economy in Viet Nam in 2022, among others. Mr. Nguyen Anh Duong stressed that the essential factor in implementing projects was the budget and the development of a basic legal framework for project implementation. He concluded by proposing directions and orientations towards green growth and cooperation between Viet Nam and Japan, such as building capacity for improving related institutions, regulations, and policies for green growth, strengthening sustainable infrastructures in Viet Nam, promoting low-carbon global value chain, and cooperating to develop international conventions, rules and standards related to green growth, among others.

In response to Mr. Nguyen Anh Duong’s presentation, Mr. Yoshitomo Kubo emphasized the importance of green growth in Viet Nam, citing Viet Nam’s commitment at COP26 to achieving net zero emissions by 2050. He added that financing projects, especially investment in the renewable energy sector, would be beneficial for Viet Nam to respond to climate change challenges and achieve the SDGs through clean energy. Mr. Kubo also showed a few examples of JICA’s cooperation for low carbon green growth in Viet Nam, such as the green growth advisor project in Quang Ninh province, the onshore wind power project in Quang Tri province, and the capacity improvement project for power system operation.

Panel discussion: New directions and recommendations for Japan and Viet Nam to enhance cooperation in the Asia Pacific supply chain beyond COVID-19

Panelists:

Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP, The University of Tokyo

Prof. Tomonori Sudo, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University

Dr. Vo Tri Thanh, President, Brand and Competitiveness Strategy Institute

Moderator: Mr. Nguyen Anh Duong, Director, Department for General Economic Issues and Integration Studies, CIEM

The panelists responded to the questions from the audience and shared their perspectives on the issues discussed in the sessions. Dr. Vo Tri Thanh contended that the world had been facing a debt crisis, posing difficulties for many countries, especially developing ones, and suggested that potential funding sources for green growth could be ODA, bonds, and investment funds. He suggested that Viet Nam should identify priority sectors for green transformation and consider these sectors as the drivers of the nation’s green growth and sustainable development. He added that priority sectors could be high carbon emissions industries, such as transport, manufacturing, and waste disposal. Dr. Vo Tri Thanh concluded that market pressures and technological revolution would increase investment capacity more effectively.

Prof. Tomonori Sudo shared his belief that the cost would be the most critical issue in considering when going green, but it would be necessary to consider the green transition as gradually taking place by converting fossil energy to renewable energy. He pointed out that the balance between building fossil and renewable energy plants would be roughly equal but needed to be reconsidered. To help Viet Nam mobilize investment from different sources, he added that companies or financial institutions should align loan appraisal for green projects to the ESG standards. Prof. Sudo gave a couple of examples of processing batteries in electric cars requiring rigorous technology by referring to China’s experience with supporting the electric vehicle battery waste treatment and Toshiba’s Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage System, which uses carbon dioxide to supply batteries to regenerate agriculture.

Prof. Nishizawa suggested that human resource development would play a vital role in green growth in developing countries because high-quality human resources would enable more effective absorption of the transferred technology.

Summary and concluding remarks

Dr. Tran Thi Hong Minh appreciated the attendance of all distinguished professors, speakers, commentators, and participants and emphasized that Japan and Viet Nam should strengthen bilateral cooperation to achieve green growth swiftly and more effectively after the COVID-19 pandemic. Prof. Nishizawa referred to intergenerational consideration in sustainable development and stressed that empathy for future generations would help our societies reconnect with the meaning of life in the global system and help us design a new global system needed to preserve a better economy and environment.

[gallery columns="2" link="none" size="medium" ids="43453,43454"] About the Forum

GraSPP has been working closely with Viet Nam’s Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment to enhance intellectual exchange between Japan and Viet Nam since 2015 with the financial support of the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO). The workshop topics since 2015 are shown together with the speakers and moderators from Japan.

March 3, 2022 (online) | “Viet Nam-Japan Policy Research Forum—New Dynamisms in Asia-Pacific Supply Chains beyond COVID-19: Implications for Japan-Viet Nam Cooperation” (Prof. Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, Prof. Mie Oba, Kanagawa University, and Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP)

March 15, 2021 (online) | “Enhancing Viet Nam–Japan Cooperation for the Sustainable Energy Future in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region” (Prof. Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, Prof. Masahiro Sugiyama, The University of Tokyo’s Institute for Future Initiatives, and Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP)

November 22, 2019, in Hanoi | “How could Viet Nam and Japan Create Mutual Benefit?: Engendering Japan-Viet Nam Industrial Cooperation through Promoting Technology Transfer” (Prof. Kiyohiro Oki, The University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Economics, Mr. Yasuhiro Yamada, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia, and Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP)

November 15, 2018, in Hanoi | “Viet Nam-Japan Policy Research Forum: Deepening Bilateral Cooperation after 10 Years of Viet Nam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement” (Prof. Mie Oba, Tokyo University of Science, Mr. Yasunori Onishi, Japan International Cooperation Agency, and Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP)

October 27, 2017, in Hanoi | “Exploring New Initiatives for Viet Nam-Japan Cooperation amidst Uncertainties in Asia-Pacific Economic Integration” (Prof. Shujiro Urata, Waseda University, and Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP)

March 2, 2017, in Hanoi | “Enhancing Inclusive Growth in the Context of Regional Integration” (Prof. Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, and Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP)

November 13, 2015, in Hanoi | “Partnership Opportunities for Viet Nam’s Successful Inclusion in ASEAN Economic Community” (Prof. Masahiro Kawai and Prof. Toshiro Nishizawa, GraSPP)