Overview of GCP activities andObjective of the workshop

WCRP   IHDP    Diversitas

Yoshiki Yamagata, Head GCP of Tsukuba International OfficeAyyoob Sharifi, Executive Director of GCP Tsukuba International Office 

DiagnosticsPatterns and Variability

Low CarbonCarbon Manag. & Policy

VulnerabilityProcesses & Feedbacks

• Carbon Budget• Methane Budget• REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and 

Processes• Component Assessments: forests, grasslands

• Carbon Budget• Methane Budget• REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and 

Processes• Component Assessments: forests, grasslands

• Carbon pools size and vulnerability (permafrost, methane hydrates, global pools assessment)

• Socio‐economic drivers of emissions

• Carbon pools size and vulnerability (permafrost, methane hydrates, global pools assessment)

• Socio‐economic drivers of emissions

• Future carbon budgets (permissible emissions)

• Negative emissions• Urban development• Energy‐carbon‐water

- Continuum “Ambassadors to Product oriented”. - GCP Product oriented (eg, budgets, assessments)

- Leading and facilitating high-level research and syntheses (SSC members are strongly encouraged to take the lead in a large or small activity)

- Based on networks and consortia

- Policy interaction and outreach

How do we operate?

Outreach and Policy

Scientific Steering Committee

Co‐chairsNebojsa Nakicenovic, AustriaRobert Jackson, USA

SSC Members1. Shobhakar Dhakal, Thailand2. Sabine Fuss, Germany3. Chris Jones, UK4. Galen McKinley, USA5. Elisabeth Malone, USA6. Luiz Martinelli, Brazil7. Glen Peters, Norway8. Shilong Piao, China9. Anu Ramaswami, USA10. Detlef van Vuuren, The Netherlands11. Libo Wu, China

IPO Officers1. Pep Canadell, Australia2. Ayyoob Sharifi, Japan

Regional officers, liaisons1. Anna Peregon, France2. Roisin Moriarty, UK3. Gyami Shrestha, USA4. Yowhan Son, Korea5. Woo Kyun Lee, Korea6. Jean Ometto, Brazil

SSC Ex‐officio members1. Philippe Ciais, France2. Corinne Le Quere, UK3. Mike Raupach, Australia4. Yoshi Yamagata, Japan

International Project and Affiliated Offices

CSIRO,CanberraAustralia

NIES,Tsukuba Japan

US Carbon CycleScience Program

Beijing, China

Partners

Carbo‐Europe, Germany

SCOR‐IOC AdvisoryParis, France

Regional Off.Inter.Proj.Off.

Korea

Future Earth

Global Carbon Project – Scientific Steering Committee

Co‐Chairs and SSC members

Executive directors (IPO) and affiliated offices

Australia 

• C‐stocks & vulnerability

• land, energy & carbon

• patterns & variability 

• regional budgets

Japan

• Urban and Regional Carbon Management (URCM)

•Managing Negative Emissions Technologies (MaGNET)

France

• annual CH4 budgets

• Global Carbon Atlas

• Regional budgets

UK

• annual CO2 budgets

International Project Offices

• oversee GCP operations

• links with sponsors, IPCC, outreach

Partners

• oversee specific activities that require dedicated international co‐ordination

Affiliated/Regional offices

• develop carbon research agenda at the regional level

How are we organized?

GCP Tsukuba International Office Launched the “Urban and Regional Carbon Management 

(URCM)” initiative in 2005 URCM is a place‐based, policy‐relevant scientific initiative aimed 

to support carbon management and sustainable urban development

Alignment with the Future Earth Initiative 

Answers to complex questions that require international collaboration 

Co‐design and co‐production of knowledge Integration of natural, economic, engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences   

Bridging various scales Providing knowledge required to face risks posed by global environmental change

Supporting decision making for sustainable development

Structure of the Workshop

• First day

• Second day

• Third day (GCP memebers and invited speakers)

9:00–12:30 Urban design and metabolism

13:30–14:45 Ecosystem service

15:10‐18:30 Sessions from Toyota High‐level Symposium on Sustainable Cities

9:00–12:00 Social innovation for sustainability

13:30–17:30 Discussion sessions on the joint project proposal

GCP activities and further discussions

Objectives of the Workshop and Expected Outcomes

Objectives - Discuss the concept of socio‐technical transformation (Days1‐2)

- Elaborating on how socio‐technical transformation forrealizing resilient and low‐carbon communities can beachieved (Days 1‐2)

- Discussing the possibility of linking MaGNET to URCM (Days1‐2)

- Discussion about future activities of GCP (Day 3)Expectedoutcome

- A framework for joint research proposal on socio‐technicaltransformation in urban areas

- Ideas for making a new URCM research strategyRequest (task) Please prepare a hand written one page memo or an email of

your thoughts about the presentations, their relationship withsocio‐technical transformation and your possible contributionto the joint research proposal and send it to the following e‐mail address by noon, Friday, January 16:sharifi.ayyoob@nies.go.jp

Funding opportunity

• Call for proposals for Transformative Knowledge Networks

• Three Transformative Knowledge Networks will each be supported with up to €900,000 over three years.

• Submission deadline 31 March 2015• Objectives:

– craft more effective, durable and equitable solutions to the problems of global change and sustainability;

– increase the use of such knowledge by policy makers, practitioners, the private sector, citizens and activists;

– create a Global Knowledge Trust on social transformations;– engage and communicate effectively with the public.

Issues and Questions

• What are possibilities for transformation?

• What changes at individual, organizational, cultural and systemic levels would be regarded as transformative?

• How can they be realized in ways that are socially acceptable?

• What novel visions for change exist, whose visions count, and how do powerful interests influence trajectories of change? 

• What are the possible levers and who are the potential agents of change? 

• What types of decision‐making processes are required ?

Thematic focus & eligibility criteria

• Internationally comparative research on processes of social transformation

• Should be conducted in relation to concrete problems of global environmental change : Climate change, energy production and consumption, extreme events

• Social science leadership (involvement of low‐ or middle‐income countries, etc.); Interdisciplinary research; Transdisciplinary research; Integrated collaboration; Capacity‐building

Tentative topic: Lifestyle & Mobility

Related to sessions on “urban design and metabolism” and “Social innovation for sustainability”

• Related to energy consumption

• Historical and contextual complexity

• Consequences of the existing patterns (with focus on poor and vulnerable communities, equity etc.)

• How can social change occur? (leadership type, methodology, limitations and challenges, etc.)

• What kind of transformative learning can be achieved?

• What are the “potential agents of change” to be involved?

• What are other potential stakeholders?

Strategies for Transformation(discussed in our Okinawa workshop)

Directly related to the session on ““Social innovation for sustainability” of this workshop

• Urban and community scale• A multitude of cities across the world• Engagement of citizens• Emergent dialogue approach• Building on the work of the existing research groups (networking)• Understanding the elements of self‐organizations• Dynamics of self‐organization and transition • What narratives become identity creating narratives• Optimum scale for self‐organization• Facilitating the capacity to self‐organize• Facilitate transformation to sustainability (process)

Other potential areas to be integrated

• Other potential areas:– Creating net‐zero and net‐positive buildings and neighborhoods 

(Session on urban design and metabolism)

– Ecosystem services and renewable energy (session on ecosystem services)

• Please share your ideas regarding other potential research proposals

Recent Workshops and conferences

• URCM Special Sessions in ICUE 2014 Conference• International Conference and Utility Exhibition on Green Energy for Sustainable Development, March 19–21 2014, Pattaya City, Thailand

• URCM Special Session in ICAE 2014 International Conference, Applied Energy• International Conference on Applied Energy, May 30–June 2 2014, Taipei, Taiwan

• Workshop on Surprise Resilient Scenarios: Emergent Dialogue Approach• November 1–4 2014, Okinawa, Japan

Future workshops

• GCP session at ICAE 2015– 28‐31 March. 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE

– Special session on: Urban energy, systems and design

• Workshop on negative emissions– 1st week of September 2015, Hokkaido, Japan 

– Engaging new people (oil industry and also people with expertise in engineering, social, and legal aspects)

Thanks for your

attention