Energy transition dialogue

On 15 Nov 2016, high-ranking German and Japanese domestic and systematic member will be assembly in Tokyo to take partial in a German-Japanese appetite dialogue. The executive doubt to be addressed will be: “How can general team-work expostulate brazen a appetite transition?” One instance of such team-work is a recently-established German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) that was combined during a beginning of Professor Peter Hennicke, former boss of a Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy.

“When we was in Japan in 2012, we was repelled to see a border of a triple disaster in Fukushima for myself”, says Professor Hennicke today. After a series of visits and discussions, a thought of substantiating an consultant legislature was put brazen with a perspective to paving a approach for renewable energies and an desirous appetite potency strategy. “We wish to learn as most as probable from one another”, says Professor Hennicke.

Despite their differences in terms of appetite routine and supply, Japan and Germany face identical challenges: namely to renovate their appetite systems so that supply is cumulative long-term in a approach that is as low-risk and resource-friendly as possible, not to discuss mostly climate-neutral. At a same time, their appetite systems also need to sojourn internationally rival via this routine of ecological modernisation.

The German-Japanese Energy Transition Council was shaped in May 2016 with a support of a German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), Stiftung Mercator, a Federal Foreign Office and a economics ministries of Germany and Japan. Professor Hennicke und Masakazu Toyoda from a  Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ) are a co-chairs. The Wuppertal Institute and a IEEJ support a Council’s work as a systematic secretariats. The 20-member GJETC met for a initial time in Sep 2016.

The executive concentration of a Council’s work is on pity knowledge concerning appetite matters. Based on successful examples of good use in both countries, a aim is to open adult new and long-term perspectives on a trail towards an desirous appetite transition – with a inhabitant and general reach. “If a appetite transition can be implemented in these dual high-tech countries in a approach that is socially concordant and economically sustainable, these examples could offer as a plans for other countries”, says Professor Hennicke.

Article source: https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/development-dialogue/energy-transition-dialogue