Designing Low-Carbon Society Course
The Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance has initiated a 'Designing Low-Carbon Society Course' in the master's program in April, 2009, The proposal to establish this new course was selected by the Ministry of the Environment for the 'Project to Develop Higher Education Environmental Leadership Training Programs' of the academic year 2008. (completed in academicyear 2011)
Course Overview
The course is designed to provide students with a unique opportunity to acquire professional knowledge and skills to develop and build a sustainable low-carbon society in Asia.
Mitigating climate change through achieving major reductions in carbon emissions in the context of sustainable development requires fundamental change in the way we produce and consume energy, do business in our lifestyles, and use land and urban transportation systems. We need to decouple economic development and carbon emissions, lowering carbon intensity of our economic activities, and perhaps eventually de-carbonize our economy and society. The new course will feature ways to identify issues and challenges of building low-carbon economies and societies, and offer solutions through providing an innovative educational program.
This course will be based on wide-ranging lectures, inter-disciplinary practices and fieldwork organized and directed by Keio University faculty members and guest speakers from leading private businesses, NPOs and research organizations in the field of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project development and financing, and those specializing in carbon emission reduction and the use of carbon market in Japan.
This course offers a master's degree to "career professional" student after one year of attending classes and successful completion of his/her master's thesis.
Related Website
ELIAS (Environmental Leadership Initiatives for Asian Sustainability)