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Seminar

From Leader to Laggard: Japanese Energy and Climate Change Policy

Open to the Public

Hosted by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

Co-Sponsored by the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Belfer Center for International Affairs

TEPCO LNG Plant

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In this seminar, Professor Lipscy will examine the institutional origins of energy and climate change policies. More specifically, the presentation will illustrate how particular electoral institutions either insulate or empower diffuse consumers, and impact energy conservation and climate mitigation policies. The argument explains why Japan turned from a “leader” to a “laggard” in global environmental policy.

Speaker: Phillip Lipscy, Assistant Professor of Political Science; The Thomas Rohlen Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Moderator: Christina Davis, Acting Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (Spring 2019); Professor of Government and Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

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