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*Global Leadership or Status Quo Proponent?: Japan at the COP 26*

*[Remote: ZOOM ONLY]*

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/5:30PM - 7PM PST // 8:30PM - 10:00PM EST - March 10th, 2022/

/10:30AM - 12:00AM JST - March 11th, 2022/

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/W//hat are the key drivers behind climate innovation and partial energy status quo in Japan//? /

/What was Japan's contribution to the COP 26 in Glasgow?/

/What is Japan's role in addressing the global climate emergency/?

Speakers:

*Dr. Kameyama Yasuko *(Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan)

*Dr. Masako Konishi *(World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Japan)

*Dr. Llewlyn Hughes *(Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University (ANU))

*Dr. Hiroshi Ohta *(Waseda University)

Moderator/Discussant:

*Yves Tiberghien* (Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research; Institute of Asian Research)

Please access the***Sign Up Link* <https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/negotiating-at-the-brink-how-does-the-world-solve-the-climate-crisis-tickets-272491257687>**and *Event Page* <https://cjr.iar.ubc.ca/6741-2/>**here.

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EVENT #2 in a 3- part series on global climate change with a focus on Japan's role in a comparative setting.


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*Yves Tiberghien*

Professor, Department of Political Science, UBC

Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, School of Public Policy/Institute of Asian Research, UBC

Director of Center for Japanese Research, UBC

Distinguished Fellow, Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada

Canadian Chair on the PAFTAD <https://paftad.org/> International Steering Committee

Twitter: *@Yves_Global*

Email: yves.tiberghien@ubc.ca <mailto:yves.tiberghien@ubc.ca>

Bio and Web page: https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/yves-tiberghien <https://politics.ubc.ca/persons/yves-tiberghien>/

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/Traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) people/

/Latest Book:/Tiberghien, Y. (August 2021). /The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox/ (Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108973533 <https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108973533>

/Recent articles:/

• 14 Feb 2022. "Existential gap: Digital/AI Acceleration and the Missing Global Governance Capacity <https://www.cigionline.org/articles/existential-gap-digitalai-acceleration-and-the-missing-global-governance-capacity/>," CIGI Online Article, project on peaceful competition (with Danielle Luo and Panthea Pourmalek)

• 6 Feb 2022. "Japan slams the borders shut on Omicron <https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/02/06/japan-slams-the-borders-shut-on-omicron/>, /East Asia Forum /(with Saya Soma)

• 8 Nov 2021. "The good, the bad and the incongruous at the Rome G20 <https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/11/08/the-good-the-bad-and-the-incongruous-at-the-rome-g20/>" in /East Asia Forum/

• 28 Oct 2021. "South Korea's deepening social fractures amid COVID-19 success <https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/10/28/south-koreas-deepening-social-fractures-amid-covid-19-success/>" in /East Asia Forum /(with Yoojung Lee)

• 24 Sept 2021. "Taiwan's COVID-19 vaccine struggles <https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/09/24/taiwans-covid-19-vaccine-struggles/>" in /East Asia Forum /(with Jackie Zhao)

• 13 Sept 2021. "Delta upends the East Asia COVID-19 model <https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/09/13/delta-upends-the-east-asia-covid-19-model/>," in /East Asia Forum/

/Book interview./August 2021: https://politics.ubc.ca/news/prof-yves-tiberghien-examines-why-east-asian-countries-handled-covid-better-in-his-new-book/ <https://politics.ubc.ca/news/prof-yves-tiberghien-examines-why-east-asian-countries-handled-covid-better-in-his-new-book/>]