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Mr. Douglas
G. Cogan, Deputy Director of the Social Issues Service and Director
of the Tobacco Information Service, Investor Responsibility Research Center
(IRRC), Washington, DC
He joined IRRC in 1982.
Mr. Cogan is the author of the new IRRC report, Climate Change and
Corporate Governance: Making the
Connection. The
report examines how 20 of the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases
are factoring climate change into their business strategies and governance
practices. Mr. Cogan recently
testified before Congress to provide an investor perspective on climate
change and clean air legislation.
Mr. Cogan is the author or co-author of several books
on energy and environmental topics.
His 1992 book, The Greenhouse Gambit: Business and Investment Responses to
Climate Change, was one of the first to focus on the
implications of climate change for the electric power, auto, agriculture
and forest products industries.
Since 1994, Mr. Cogan has covered the U.S. global warming
shareholder campaign and written more than three dozen company analyses on
this topic.
Mr. Cogan has also written extensively on fiduciary
issues related to social investing and shareholder activism. In 2000, Mr. Cogan edited Tobacco
Divestment and Fiduciary Responsibility:
A Financial and Legal Analysis. The report
examined legal and fiduciary issues raised by fund trustees who seek to
align investment practices with their institutional missions.
Mr. Cogan is a frequent contributor to IRRC’s Corporate Social Issues Reporter. He also writes analyses of shareholder
resolutions and provides guidelines consulting for institutional investors
that subscribe to IRRC’s proxy voting and agency voting services.
IRRC is an independent research firm that is the
leading source of high quality, impartial information on corporate
governance and social responsibility issues affecting investors and
corporations worldwide. Founded in
1972, IRRC provides research, software products and consulting services to
more than 500 institutional investors, corporations, law firms,
universities and foundations.
Consistent with its charter, IRRC takes no advocacy positions on the
issues it covers.
Mr. Cogan is a graduate of Williams
College. He graduated cum laude
and received highest honors in political economics.
Dr. Robert K. Dixon, Senior Advisor for Climate
Change, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, DC
 Dr. Robert K. Dixon is Senior Advisor for Climate Change, Office
of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, U.S. Department of Energy (DoE).
He has more than 20 years of energy and environment experience with three
federal agencies, the private sector and academia. Dr. Dixon earned his B.S, M.S. (1979)
and Ph.D. (1982) degrees from the University of Missouri, Columbia,
Missouri.
Dr. Dixon was a tenured faculty member
at the University of Minnesota and Auburn University from 1982 to
1989. He was competitively awarded
an Exxon Fellowship in 1984 and a Smithsonian Fellowship in 1985. Dixon also served as a Visiting
Professor at Oxford University, United Kingdom, Humboldt University,
Germany, Delhi University, India and Kasetsart University, Thailand during
the 1980s. He is the author or
co-author of seven books and over 125 scholarly journal articles on energy
and environment science and policy topics.
He was a consultant to the Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP) during the Reagan Administration.
The U.S. Agency for International
Development (AID) and Winrock International employed him in 1986 to manage
energy science and policy programs in Asia. During this period he helped develop AID=s network of Renewable Energy Program Support Offices (REPSO)
and led energy policy reform efforts in 11 countries. Dixon led or developed energy and
environment projects, sponsored by various bilateral (e.g., USDA, NASA) and
multilateral (e.g., UNDP, World Bank, UNEP) organizations in over 80
countries worldwide (1982 to present).
Dr. Dixon is co-founder Plant Health
Care, Inc. (1987). Plant Health
Care, Inc., a biotechnology research and development firm, markets or
licenses processes and products in all 50 U.S. states and more than 30
foreign countries. Dixon started
his career with the Allied Corporation and managed a large-scale research,
development and technology deployment program for four years. He is the co-author of two U.S. patents.
In 1989, Dixon joined the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency=s (EPA) Office of Research and Development as a Senior
Scientist. He led a national
research and development program to support the Clean Air Act and
Amendments. In 1991, Dixon was
seconded to EPA=s Policy Office to support the Administrator and the Executive
Office of the U.S. President (Bush Administration) in preparation for the
1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit). He was awarded EPA=s bronze medal for his contributions in 1992. He was an adjunct
Professor at Oregon State University from 1989 to 1997.
Dr. Dixon led two Presidential
Initiatives: U.S. Country Studies Program (1992 to 1998) and the U.S.
Initiative on Joint Implementation (1995 to 1998) to advance U.S. strategic
interests in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). Dixon has served on the U.S. negotiating
team for the FCCC since 1990. He has also served in a variety of senior
U.S. diplomatic assignments, lived in six countries during his career, and
developed foreign language capabilities.
In 1997, Dr. Dixon joined DOE=s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). At DOE he has been engaged in policy analysis,
research and development and program management. From 1999 to 2002 Dr. Dixon served as Deputy Assistant
Secretary and led the largest renewable energy research and development
program in the world. He is
currently Co-Chairman of the International Energy Agency’s Renewable Energy
Working Party.
Dr. Dixon lectures at the Johns Hopkins
University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced and International Studies
(SAIS) and Georgetown University.
He appears on public television programs such as the Discovery
Channel. Dr. Dixon has been an
advisor to Ted Turner=s UN Foundation, the Soros Foundation, the International
Foundation for Science, CARE and other philanthropic organizations. He also has been a consultant and
contributor to the U.S. National Academy of Science and the U.S. National
Academy of Engineering activities during the past 10 years. Dixon has been honored with awards from
the public and private sector, as well as, scientific organizations for his
distinguished public service.
 Dr. Daniel
J. Dudek, Chief Economist, Environmental Defense
Specializes in the reduction and control of atmospheric pollutants through
the development of markets for environmental commodities to manage local
and global pollution from stationary and mobile sources. Led the team
credited by President George H.W. Bush with breaking the logjam on acid
rain. Participated in market development activities of the US sulfur
dioxide allowance trading system for the reduction of acid rain, including
auctions, spot and future markets. He was also involved in the creation of
tradable production entitlements for chlorofluorocarbons for compliance
with the Montreal Protocol, a US EPA-approved mobile-stationary source
trading program for hydrocarbon and nitrogen oxide reductions in
nonattainment areas, the volatile organic material trading program in
Illinois, the emerging regional nitrogen oxides trading market in the
eastern US, and the evolving greenhouse gas market. He brokered the first
interpollutant trade which involved sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide,
developed the first emission trade in Poland, facilitated the first
international GHG trade involving options, partnered with BP to develop
their internal GHG trading system, and is developing SO2 emissions trading
in China in partnership with the State Environmental Protection
Administration.
Advisor, Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development; Ministry of Environment, Poland; United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development; Regional Environment Center,
Budapest; Acid Rain Advisory Committee and Clean Air Act Compliance
Committee, US Environmental Protection Agency; Chicago Board of Trade;
Secretary of Energy Advisory Board; British Petroleum; Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; State Environmental Protection Administration,
People’s Republic of China; and advisor to various
public and private institutions.
Author of numerous articles,
abstracts, and papers on creating strategies for using market forces to
solve environmental problems.
Assistant professor of resource
economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst (1982-86); agricultural economist, Natural Resource.
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Dr. Alexander Golub, Senior
Economist, Environmental
Defence, Washington, DC
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 Involved
in the development of climate change strategy for Russia and other NIS
countries (development of institutions for the emissions trading and
economic analysis for forward trade). Also working on the emissions
trading and GHG reduction policy for the biggest Russian Company “United Energy System”, which accounted for almost
half of Russian CO2 emissions.
Approximately
20 years of experience in the field of environmental economics, natural
resources management, and global climate change mitigation policy. Lead
expert in several international policy and advisory projects.
Successfully completed assignments for the GEF, the OECD, the World Bank,
US EPA, Bureau of Economic Analysis, TACIS, Denmark's EPA, Czech
Environmental Protection Agency, the Russian Environmental Protection
Committee, and several regional environmental protection committees.
Research
fellow, Kennedy School of Harvard University (1998-2000); Project
Director for the Harvard Institute of International Development (HIID)
(1998-2000); also conducted workshops on climate change economics and
policy issues in Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Philippines and Climate
Change and Development Workshop in HIID. Leader of the World Bank study
on greenhouse gas emission management in Russia (1997-98); Accredited
IPCC expert and adviser to the Russian and the Kazakh governments.
Ph.D., Moscow
University; Doctor of Economics, Central Economics and Mathematics
Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.
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Dr. David L. Greene, Corporate Fellow, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Knoxville, U.S.A.
Dr. David Greene has spent
25 years researching transportation and energy policy issues for the U.S.
government. His research interests
include analysis of policies to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from transportation,
energy and transportation demand modeling, economic analysis of petroleum
dependence, and understanding market responses to advanced transportation
technologies and alternative fuels.
Dr. Greene earned a B.A. degree from Columbia University in 1971, an
M.A. from the University of Oregon in 1973, and a Ph.D. in Geography and
Environmental Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 1978. He has published over one hundred fifty
articles in professional journals, contributions to books and technical
reports. In recognition of his
service to the National Academy of Science and National Research Council,
Dr. Greene has been designated a lifetime National Associate of the
National Academies.
Dr. Erik F. Haites, President, Margaree Consultants Inc., Toronto, Canada
Dr. Haites is an expert on emissions trading and its potential
application to greenhouse gases. He
was a consultant to the National Round Table on the Environment and the
Economy on the analysis of alternative designs for a domestic greenhouse
gas trading system for Canada. He
was a consultant to the IPE for the design of a domestic greenhouse gas
trading program for the U.K. and a research collaborator for the Heinz
Center project on domestic greenhouse gas emissions trading in the
U.S. Dr. Haites participated in the
PERT pilot program for NOx, VOC and greenhouse gas emissions trading in
southern Ontario. He is currently
involved in a study of the feasibility of multiple pollutant trading
programs for Alberta.
Dr. Haites has assisted the UNFCCC Secretariat on issues related
to the Kyoto mechanisms. Dr. Haites served as Head of the Technical Support
Unit for Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) while its contribution to the Second Assessment Report was
prepared. He has been invited to
testify before the House of Commons Committees on Environment and Natural
Resources and the Ontario Select Committee on Global Warming.
Mr. Peter Heyward,
Assistant Secretary, Environment Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and
Trade, Canberra, Australia
 Mr. Peter Heyward is Assistant Secretary of the Environment
Branch of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia. Since
moving to the Department from the Commonwealth environment portfolio in
1989 in the lead-up to the UN Conference on Environment and Development in
Rio he has held a range of positions, mostly working on multilateral
issues. His overseas postings
include Buenos Aires and most recently Geneva, where he was the Deputy Head
of Mission at Australia’s Mission to the United Nations and participated in
many international meetings, including the World Conference Against Racism.
He was a senior member of the Australian delegation to the World Summit on
Sustainable Development and lead the delegation to the 18th
Subsidiary Bodies meeting on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany.
 Prof. Catrinus Jepma, Universities of
Groningen and Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prof.
Dr. Catrinus J. Jepma, (1953), Ph.D. Econ. (1986),
LLM., is since 1988 a professor of International (Environmental) Economics,
appointed at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Groningen and
Open University, the Netherlands. His fields of specialisation are:
North-South economic relations, East-West European integration,
international finance and investment, international economic policy
co-ordination, and international energy and environmental economics.
His professional experience related to
international energy and environmental economics include:
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He acted as advisor to various
national governments and international institutions (including UNFCCC
Secretariat, FAO, EU) at various occasions.
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He has drafted a number of studies
in the field of energy in conjunction with private sector energy companies.
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He has been heavily involved in
the international policy discussions leading up to the Kyoto Protocol
flexibility mechanisms.
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He was leader of a research team
modelling tropical deforestation issues (see also publication list below).
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He is chairman of the Board of
Experts of Keurhout foundation, the institution verifying if SFM
certificates on timber imported in the Netherlands comply with the SFM
standards of the Netherlands’ government.
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He was the convening lead author
of the writing team for Chapter 7 of Working Group III of the Second
Assessment Report of the IPCC and he was co-ordinating lead author of the
chapter on Policies and Measures of Working Group III of IPCC’s Third
Assessment Report.
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He was the project co-ordinator of
the EU-funded PROBASE project, a research consortium comprising EU-based
and Central European research institutions.
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He is the chief editor of Joint
Implementation Quarterly and co-editor (envisaged) of Mitigation and
Adaptation Strategies.
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In May 2001 he
co-organised/co-chaired a European Commission workshop on “Developing
Synergies between Sustainable Forest Management and Carbon Sequestration”.
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He recently drafted on behalf of
the Netherlands’ government the “Terms of Reference ERUPT 2001, Appendix 4:
Operational guidelines for baseline studies, validation, monitoring and
verification.”
He advises the Netherlands government on the various tenders in the
framework of climate policy, notably ERUPT and CERUPT.
 Mr. Peter J. Kalas, Senior Technical Coordinator,
National Strategy Studies Program, The World Bank, Washington, DC
Mr.
Kalas has been since 1998 in charge of the World Bank program of the
National CDM/JI Strategy Studies (NSS Program) and participated also in its
conceptual preparation. The NSS Program was designed to provide the
capacity building assistance to host countries regarding the implementation
of the Kyoto Protocol flexible mechanisms and thus to stimulate international carbon market.
To date, the NSS program has targeted more than 30 countries with 19
completed studies in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and
Asia. Mr. Kalas facilitated the
climate change dialogue with the Governments of all involved host countries
and cooperates closely with national teams of experts.
A
Swiss national, Mr. Kalas joined the World Bank in 1994 on a special
assignment of the Swiss Government to coordinate the multilateral
co-operation in the environmental area with Central and Eastern European
countries (CEEC) within the “Environment for Europe” program. This assignment,
covering all 24 partner countries in the CEEC region, contained also a
close cooperation with the western donor countries to mobilize their
financial support for the preparation of several dozens of environment
projects.
Before
joining the World Bank, Mr. Kalas had worked at the Swiss Ministry of
Economy in charge of the financial development assistance to South America,
Asia and Africa. Between 1991-94, Mr. Kalas also co-ordinated the Swiss
technical assistance in the environmental area in Central Europe.
Born
in Prague (1940), Mr. Kalas graduated at the Czech Technical University in
Prague with a Master degree in energy engineering and economy (with honor).
He left Czechoslovakia in 1968 for Switzerland and his subsequent
professional background included 15 years as an international consultant
with a reputable Swiss company in the field of energy and industry
planning. He managed or participated in nearly 100 projects in more than
thirty countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia that included also
National Power and/or Energy Strategy projects in Nigeria, Colombia,
Malaysia and Bangladesh. He published articles on power and energy
planning.
 Dr.
Jhy-Ming Lu, Director, Sustainable Energy Research Division, Energy &
Resources Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Education:
Ph.D in Geography, Chinese Culture
University, Taiwan
Experience:
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Deputy General Secretary of
National Forum on Sustainable Development
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Manager, Sustainable Development Research
Laboratory, ERL/ITRI
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Project Manager, APEC Energy
Working Group Research & Associated Affairs
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Project Manager, Earthquake
Response Research Program for Energy Supply System
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Project Manager, Strategy Planning
and Mitigating of Taiwan for UNFCCC
 Prof. Warwick J. McKibbin, Australian National
University, Canberra; Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington,
DC
Warwick McKibbin
is Professor of International Economics and Convenor of the Economics
Division in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the
Australian National University. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow at
the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C, and President of McKibbin
Software Group. He was appointed to the Board of the Reserve Bank of
Australia in 2002 for a five years term. Professor McKibbin spent 16 years
on the staff of the Reserve Bank of Australia and has been a visiting
scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance and the United States
Congressional Budget office. He has
been a consultant for international agencies including The United Nations,
The World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, as well as the governments of Australia, Canada, Indonesia,
Japan, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States on issues of
macroeconomic policy, international
trade and finance and
greenhouse policy issues.
Professor McKibbin has published widely in technical journals and
the popular press including the book “Global Linkages: Macroeconomic
Interdependence and Cooperation in the World Economy” written with
Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University and the new book “Climate
Change Policy after Kyoto: A Blueprint for a Realistic Approach” with
Professor Peter Wilcoxen of the University of Texas. He is internationally
renowned for his contribution to multi-country economic modeling through
his development of the MSG multi-country model and the G-Cubed series of
multi-country models that are used in many countries by policymakers,
corporations, financial institutions and academics.
Before moving to the ANU
in September 1993, Professor McKibbin was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings
Institution and an adjunct Professor at the Johns Hopkins University. He received his B.Com (Honours 1) and
University Medal from University of NSW
(1980) and his AM (1984) and a PhD (1986) from Harvard University.
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and a founding
member of the Harvard University Asian Economic Panel.
Dr. Irving M. Mintzer,
Global Business Network, Silver Spring, U.S.A.
Dr. Irving M. Mintzer is Executive
Editor of Global Change Magazine, a Senior Associate of the Pacific
Institute for Studies in Development, Environment and Security, and
a member of the Global Business Network. Since 1983, Dr. Mintzer has been
an active participant in the international debate on national energy
strategies and on policy options to reduce the risks of rapid climate
change. In 1995-96, he was a lead author of Working Group 3 (Economics and
Policy Responses) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
and a co-author of the IPCC Synthesis Panel Report. From 1997 to 2001, Dr.
Mintzer taught courses on multilateral negotiations at the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. During the last
decade, he has testified on energy and climate policy issues before the US
Congress, the British Parliament, the German Bundestag, the Italian
Parliament, and the European Parliament. He has been a Senior Special
Fellow with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (Geneva,
Switzerland) and a visiting scientist with the Swedish Academy of Sciences,
the Soviet Academy of Sciences, and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Dr.
Mintzer holds a Ph.D. in Energy and Resources and a Masters in Business
Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Mintzer is the author of numerous
articles in scientific journals and other periodicals. He is co-editor with
J.A. Leonard of Confronting Climate Change: Risks, Implications, and
Responses (Cambridge University Press) and Negotiating Climate
Change: The Inside Story of the Rio Convention (Cambridge University
Press).
 Prof. Akio Morishima, Chair of the
Board of Directors, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES),
Kanagawa, Japan
Prof. Morishima serves as President of
the Central Environment Council of the Government of Japan, and is
considered as a theoretical leader of environmental law and policy
development in Japan. He is an
internationally eminent lawyer and has long been an enthusiastic supporter
of environmental justice. After
graduating from the University of Tokyo, School of Law in 1958, he was at
Nagoya University for more than thirty-five years, as associate professor,
and professor and Dean at the School of Law, and as the Dean of Graduate
School of International Development.
He contributed to the Basic Environmental Law in Japan as Chairman
of the Policy and Planning Committee of the Central Environment Council and
was mastermind behind the report Basic Environment Plan in 1998 which
outlines the long-term policies for environmental conservation in
Japan. He is the 1996 laureate of
Global 500 Award of UNEP.
 Dr. Charles E. Morrison, President, East-West Center,
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Research
interests
- The Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum
- Asia-Pacific
international relations, economic issues, and security issues
- U.S.-Asia policy,
trade policy, and U.S.-Japanese relations
At the Center for 23
years, he assumed the post of president on August 1, 1998. He has had
extensive involvement in the conceptualization, organization and funding of
policy-oriented educational research and dialogue projects in both Japan
and the United States, and has long been involved in promoting the concept
of Asia Pacific community. He is a founding member of the U.S. National
Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation and member of the U.S. Committee
for Security Cooperation in Asia Pacific. Past chair, U.S. National Consortium
of APEC Study Centers; co-director, East-West Center-University of Hawai‘i
APEC Study Center. Former director of the Center’s Program on International
Economics and Politics, and former U.S. Senate aide. Research adviser to
two binational Japan-U.S. Commissions. Projects include APEC trade and
development cooperation, the New Generation Seminar (exchange program for
young leaders), the Congressional Study Group on Japan, the Congressional
Study Group on the Pacific Islands, and the Asia-Pacific Security Outlook.
Co-edits the annual Asia-Pacific Security Outlook series. He has been
quoted frequently by major news media in the region on issues of regional
cooperation, international relations, U.S. Asia policy and trade policies,
U.S.-Japan relations, and Asian economic issues. He is the author of a wide
range of books, papers and analyses. PhD from Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies (SAIS) specializing in Asian international
relations.
Publications in recent
years include: Community Building with Pacific Asia (report to
the Trilateral Commission). ASEAN: Forum, Caucus & Community.
Asia-Pacific Crossroads: Regime Creation and the Future of APEC.
Development Cooperation in the 21st Century: Implications for APEC. Asia-Pacific
Security Outlook: 2003.
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Mr. Ahmad has been actively engaged in the
areas of engineering, environmental issues, energy development, policy
planning, project management and project cycle management in the government,
non-profit, development agency and private sector in Pakistan, Denmark and
USA since 1992. Mr. Ahmad has been involved in public, donor, and private
sector initiatives in environmental management, climate change studies,
climate change policy, policy analysis, and project design and development.
He has a strong interest in multilateral environmental negotiations and has
worked on the implementation of multilateral environmental agreements in
Pakistan, principally United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and United Nations
Convention on Combating Desertification (UNCCD). 
Mr. Toshiyuki Sakamoto, Director,
Global Environmental Affairs Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry,
Tokyo
