A kickoff seminar for the Miyashiro Town Zero Carbon Promotion Council in Miyashiro Town, Saitama Prefecture, in which Nippon Institute of Technology participates as a council member, was held on August 2024, 8 at the town's community center, Shinshukan, for businesses in Miyashiro Town, Miyashiro Town council members and staff, and local people involved in promoting decarbonization.
The Miyashiro Town Zero Carbon Promotion Council is expected to be an organization that will bring together industry, academia, and government to promote decarbonized urban development toward the realization of a zero-carbon city in Miyashiro Town.
At the kick-off seminar held prior to the establishment of the council, Miyashiro Town Mayor Yasuyuki Arai stated his expectations for the council and emphasized the importance of Miyashiro Town as a whole working on global warming countermeasures, not just the local government. Next, experts gave lectures on the current state of decarbonization in Miyashiro Town, measures that need to be taken, and examples of decarbonization technologies, deepening a common understanding of decarbonization. Nippon Institute of Technology Professor Takashi Amemiya (Head of NIT-EMS) and Assistant Professor Yuta Fukazawa (Department of Architecture) were also invited as lecturers, and gave lectures related to their respective fields of expertise on the themes of "Miyashiro Town's GHG calculations and future global warming countermeasures" and "Decarbonization of buildings toward 2050."
In fiscal 2024, the group plans to work towards the goal of formulating the regional policy section of the Global Warming Countermeasures Action Plan (a plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions throughout the entire area of a local government toward 2030 and 2050).
