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Northeast Asia Energy Cooperation Workshop Program
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Northeast Asia Energy Cooperation Workshop Program
In 2003, the Baker Institute’s Energy Forum began an important research collaboration with energy and economic policy think tanks in Japan and China on “The Future of Energy Security and Energy Policy in Northeast Asia: China, Japan and the United States.” The joint project brings together scholars from the three countries to examine the future of energy policy formation in Northeast Asia .
As part of the multi-year effort, the Baker Institute’s Energy Forum, the Institute for Energy Economics, Japan, the UFJ Research Institute of Tokyo, Horizon Survey Research of Beijing, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and Boodc Inc. of China are hosting a series of international workshops and original sponsored research projects examining the future of energy security, energy policy formation and environmental awareness in Northeast Asia, focusing on the potential for coordination between China, Japan and the United States. These workshops bring together scholars and policy-makers from all three countries to examine three key factors affecting the future of energy and environmental policy formation in Northeast Asia:
- The changing attitudes, knowledge and influence of the Chinese people on energy and environmental issues;
- The changing relations between China ’s government regulatory and ownership institutions and its state-owned oil and gas companies;
- The potential for Chinese, Japanese and American governments, state-owned oil and gas companies and multi-nationals to construct multi-lateral institutions of energy and environmental policy coordination .
The Baker Institute and UFJ co-sponsored three workshops in 2004:
Petroleum Strategies and Regional Cooperation, with Boodc Inc. of China and the Chinese Association for Asian and African Studies, in Beijing, March 6-7, 2004
International Workshop on Energy and Energy Security Policy in Northeast Asia, with the Institute for Energy Economics of Japan, in Tokyo, March 9, 2004
Energy Security and Environmental Awareness in China, with Horizon Survey Research of China, at the Baker Institute, Houston, June 30, 2004.
The Baker Institute, IEEJ and UFJ are co-sponsoring three workshops in 2005:
Investment in China's Local Energy Infrastructure, With Horizon Survey Research, at the Baker Institute, Houston, April 11, 2005US-Japan-China Joint Workshop: Energy Infrastructure of China, With the Energy Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, China, in Tokyo, July 14, 2005
Shanghai and the Global Energy Economy: Cooperation on Energy and Environmental Policy Among China, Japan and the United States, With the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, in Shanghai, July 16, 2005
The principal investigators of this project are research fellows Steven W. Lewis and Amy Myers Jaffe.
The James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, located in Houston, is strictly non-partisan and dedicated to the highest standards of intellectual excellence and integrity with the goal of helping bridge the gap between the theory and practice of public policy by drawing together experts from academia, government, the media, business, and non-governmental organizations. By so doing, the institute will broaden the professional perspective and personal understanding of all those involved in the study, formulation, execution, and criticism of public policy.
Baker Institute weblink http://www.bakerinstitute.org/
The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan was established in June 1966 and certified as an incorporated foundation by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in September that year. The aim of its establishment is to carry on research activities specialized in the area of energy from the viewpoint of the national economy as a whole in a bid to contribute to sound development of the Japanese energy-supplying and energy-consuming industries and to the improvement of people's life in the country by objectively analyzing energy problems and providing basic data, information and reports necessary for the formulation of policies. With the diversification of social needs during the three and a half decades of its operation, IEEJ has expanded its scope of research activities to include such topics as environmental problems and international cooperation closely related to energy.
IEEJ weblink http://eneken.ieej.or.jp/en/
The UFJ Institute was created from a merger in April 2002 between SRIC Corporation and Tokai Research & Consulting, Inc. The UFJ Institute is the think tank of the UFJ Group. It seeks to be one of the most advanced and influential think tanks in the world, working from a global perspective as an "intelligence provider," and creating new intellectual value that contributes to the prosperity of its clients and the advancement of society.
UFJ Institute weblink http://www.ufji.co.jp/eng/index.html
