Climate Change Policy in Japan

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.

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

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