Climate Change Policy in Japan - From the 1980s to 2015

Amidst growing environmental concerns worldwide, Japan is seen as particularly vulnerable to the effects of a changing climate. This book considers Japan's response to the climate change problem from the late 1980s up to the present day. As the 2015 international climate change conference projects beyond 2020, the book concludes by analyzing how Japan has placed itself in the global climate change debate and how the country might and should respond to the problem in the future. This is the first book to explore Japan's climate change policy over three decades and will interest students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Comparative Politics, and Climate Change Policy.

List of contents

1. Framing Japan's response to climate change
2. Emergence of the climate change problem and adoption of the UNFCCC (1980S-1994)
3. COP3 and the Kyoto Protocol (1995-2002)
4. Struggling to find the "Post-Kyoto" Regime, 2002-2010
5. The Tohoku earthquake and reconsideration of Japan's energy policies (2011-2015)
6. Conclusion
Annex 1: Chronicle of Japan's Climate Change Policy

About the author

Yasuko Kameyama is Deputy Director at the Center for Social and Environmental Systems Research, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan

Summary

Amidst growing environmental concerns worldwide, Japan is seen as particularly vulnerable to the effects of changing climate. This book considers Japan’s response to the climate change problem from the late 1980s up to the present day, assessing how the Japanese government’s policy-making process has developed over time. From the early days of climate change policy in Japan, through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conferences and Kyoto Protocol, right up to the 2015 negotiations, the book examines the environmental, economic, and political factors that have shaped policy. As the 2015 Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change projects forward beyond 2020, the book concludes by analyzing how Japan has placed itself in the global climate change debate and how the country might and should respond to the problem in the future, based on the findings from accumulated history.

Product details

• Authors: Yasuko Kameyama, Yasuko (National Institute for Environme Kameyama, Yasuko (National Institute for Environmental Studies Kameyama, Kameyama Yasuko
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.11.2016
• EAN: 9781138838598
• ISBN: 978-1-138-83859-8
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment; Routledge Studies in Asia and the Environment
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Japan, Ethnic Studies, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social and cultural history, Central / national / federal government policies, Environmental policy & protocols, c 1990 to c 1999, c 1980 to c 1989, Central government policies, Environmental policy and protocols, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General