Mapping the Energy Future

This episode is talking about the following question, “Is Europe's Natural Gas Crisis over?”. Based on the exchange of opinions during his business trip to Europe last week, Dr. Koyama speaks issues related to the European gas crisis that shook the international energy market last year.

This episode is talking about “G7 Ministerial Communiqué”. The G7 Ministers of Climate, Energy and Environment met in Sapporo on April 15 & 16 and issued their communiqué on April 16. This communiqué provides one of the major building blocks for the G7 Leaders’ Meeting which will be held in Hiroshima on May 20 & 21. Mr. Terazawa highlights several points from the communique.

This episode is talking about “Energy Transition and the Importance of Industrial Policy”. Dr. Koyama will panoramically review Japanese, North American and European conditions regarding the topic looming as a key matter of concern to the world.

This episode is talking about “The need to integrate Economic Security and Global Climate Change policies”. These days, economic security and global climate change are often cited as the two most important issues. Yet, the two issues are addressed separately without meaningful coordination between the adopted policies. The world needs to integrate these two issues.

This episode is talking about “Why Energy Efficiency?”. For many, pursuing energy efficiency is not as attractive as developing renewable energies. While you can see the tall towers of wind power generation, you cannot easily appreciate most of the energy efficiency measures that have been introduced. Even if energy efficiency is considered less attractive, it does not mean that it is not as important as renewables. In fact, energy efficiency could and should play a major role in our paths towards carbon neutrality.

This episode is talking about “44th IAEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia”. For the first time, the IAEE held its prestigious annual international conference in the Middle East from February 4-9, 2023. The event addressed critical topics under the theme “Pathways to a clean, stable, and sustainable energy future”. 

This episode is talking about “50 years after the First Oil Crisis”. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the First Oil Crisis that took place in 1973. As we are again in the middle of a global energy crisis, it is important to look back to 1973 and draw lessons that can be incorporated into our response to the current crisis.

This episode is talking about “What is GX?”. The Japanese Government recently launched a policy package that will lead the energy/industry transformation for the next 10 years. And that is called the GX (Green Transformation) Roadmap. Mr. Terazawa, CEO, IEEJ, will give us a brief overview of Japan’s latest policy package, GX.