ASAYAMA Shinichiro｜National Institute for Environmental Studies

Research Subject

Fiscal Year: 2025
- 27194 : Social Systems Domain
- 27198 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
- 27222 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
- 27236 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
- 27239 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
- 27246 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
- 27251 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
- 27252 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
- 27334 : Development of scenarios focusing on carbon dioxide removal under 1.5 degree climate change mitigation
- 27433 : Ethical and policy legitimacy of national net-zero targets: An assessment from multiple equity perspectives
- 27434 : Capacity for environmental innovation policy: Cases of emerging climate change options
- 27551 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
Fiscal Year: 2024
- 26811 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
- 26837 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
- 26852 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
- 26855 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
- 26862 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
- 26870 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
- 26872 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
- 26902 : Development of scenarios focusing on carbon dioxide removal under 1.5 degree climate change mitigation
- 26933 : Ethical and policy legitimacy of national net-zero targets: An assessment from multiple equity perspectives
- 27045 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
Fiscal Year: 2023
- 26406 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
- 26426 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
- 26438 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
- 26440 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
- 26452 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
- 26457 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
- 26458 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
- 26472 : Global analyses of technological, economic, and social feasibility of the pathway towards a zero-carbon society
- 26563 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
- 26744 : Establishing ELSI for strategies of developing and promoting decarbonization technologies in Japan
Fiscal Year: 2022
- 25984 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
- 25985 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
- 25987 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
- 25990 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
- 26016 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
- 26017 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
- 26018 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
- 26060 : Global analyses of climate mitigation for achieving net-zero emissions and sustainable development
- 26096 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
- 26140 : The science and politics of adapting climate change: The case of climate engineering and climate migration
- 26141 : Global analyses of technological, economic, and social feasibility of the pathway towards a zero-carbon society
- 26189 : Establishing ELSI for strategies of developing and promoting decarbonization technologies in Japan
Fiscal Year: 2021
- 25504 : Decarbonized and Sustainable Society Research Program
- 25523 : Proposal and evaluation of environmentally efficient technologies and systems in collaboration with local communities
- 25532 : Simultaneous achievement of global decarbonization and sustainability
- 25534 : Establishing a Regime Inclusive of Future Generations in a Sustainable Society
- 25616 : Global analyses of climate mitigation for achieving net-zero emissions and sustainable development
- 25684 : The science and politics of adapting climate change: The case of climate engineering and climate migration
- 25685 : Global analyses of technological, economic, and social feasibility of the pathway towards a zero-carbon society
- 25708 : Social systems domain: Foresight and advanced basic research
- 25709 : Social systems domain: Policy-oriented research
- 25710 : Social systems domain: Intellectual research infrastructure development
- 25834 : Development of New Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
- 25878 : Establishing ELSI for strategies of developing and promoting decarbonization technologies in Japan
Fiscal Year: 2020
- 25149 : Studies on Development of Global and Asian Sustainability Scenarios
- 25186 : Global analyses of climate mitigation for achieving net-zero emissions and sustainable development
- 25202 : Development of new Approaches to Environmental Economics and Evaluation
- 25404 : The science and politics of adapting climate change: The case of climate engineering and climate migration

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Research Result (Publication)

Original Paper

Conflicted public perceptions of different net-zero mitigation pathways between feasibility and desirability

Presenter : Asayama S., Fujimori S., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Sugiyama M.
Title : , Communications Sustainability, 1(22): (2026)
Original Paper

International financial support to achieve the net-zero emissions goal could help resolve equity trade-off between developing and developed countries

Presenter : Fujimori S., Fan L., Zhao S., Asayama S., Hasegawa T., Nishiura O., Shiraki H., Takahashi K.
Title : , Communications Earth & Environment, 7(118): (2026)
Original Paper

An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal

Presenter : Low S., Boettcher M., Asayama S., Baum C., Borth A., Brown C., Clingerman F., Dauvergne P., Pryck K.D., Gupta A., Honegger M., Lenzi D., Reitsma R., Schenuit F., Scott-Buechler C., Valenzuela J.M.
Title : , Earth System Governance, 19(100204): (2024)
Original Paper

Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia-Pacific countries

Presenter : Sugiyama M., Asayama S., Kosugi T., Ishii A., Watanabe S.
Title : , Sustainability Science (2024)
Original Paper

The history and future of IPCC special reports: A dual role of politicisation and normalisation

Presenter : Asayama S.
Title : , Climatic Change, 177(137): (2024)
Other Publications

Carbon dioxide removal: perspectives from the social sciences and humanities

Presenter : Hansson A., Asayama S., Bottcher M., Fridahl M.
Title : , Frontiers in Climate, 6:1509331 (2024)
Original Paper

Normalized injustices in the national energy discourse: A critical analysis of the energy policy framework in Japan through the three tenets of energy justice

Presenter : HARTWIG M., Emori S., Asayama S.
Title : , Energy Policy, 174: (2023)
Original Paper

Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies

Presenter : Oshiro K., Fujimori S., Hasegawa T., Asayama S., Shiraki H., Takahashi K.
Title : , One Earth, 6(7):872-883 (2023)
Other Publications

Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC

Presenter : Asayama S., De Pryck K., Beck S., Cointe B., Edwards P., Guillemot H., Gustafsson K., Hartz F., Hughes H., Lahn B., Leclerc O., Lidskog R., Livingston J., Lorenzoni I., MacDonald J., Mahony M., Miguel J., Monteiro M., O’Reilly J., Pearce W., Petersen A., Siebenhuner B., Skodvin T., Standring A., Sundqvist G., Taddei R., van Bavel B., Vardy M., Yamineva Y., Hulme M.
Title : , Nature Climate Change, 13:877-880 (2023)
Other Publications

Reconsidering the lower end of long-term climate scenarios

Presenter : Fujimori S., Nishiura O., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Shiogama H., Takahashi K., Takakura J., Tsuchiya K., Sugiyama M., Asayama S.
Title : , PLOS CLIMATE, (16):1-5 (2023)
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Controversies

Presenter : Asayama S., De Pryck K., Hulme M.
Title : , A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022)
Original Paper

The oxymoron of carbon dioxide removal: Escaping carbon lock-in and yet perpetuating the fossil status quo?

Presenter : Asayama S.
Title : , Frontiers in Climate, 3:673515 (2021)
Original Paper

Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

Presenter : Asayama S., Hulme M., Markusson N.
Title : , Climatic Change, 167:25 (2021)
Original Paper

Threshold, budget and deadline: beyond the discourse of climate scarcity and control

Presenter : Asayama S.
Title : , Climatic Change, 167:33 (2021)
Original Paper

Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality

Presenter : Asayama S., Emori S., Sugiyama M., Kasuga F., Watanabe C.
Title : , Sustainability Science (2020)

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Conflicted public perceptions of different net-zero mitigation pathways between feasibility and desirability

Presenter : Asayama S., Fujimori S., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Sugiyama M.
Title : , Communications Sustainability, 1(22): (2026)
International financial support to achieve the net-zero emissions goal could help resolve equity trade-off between developing and developed countries

Presenter : Fujimori S., Fan L., Zhao S., Asayama S., Hasegawa T., Nishiura O., Shiraki H., Takahashi K.
Title : , Communications Earth & Environment, 7(118): (2026)
An earth system governance research agenda for carbon removal

Presenter : Low S., Boettcher M., Asayama S., Baum C., Borth A., Brown C., Clingerman F., Dauvergne P., Pryck K.D., Gupta A., Honegger M., Lenzi D., Reitsma R., Schenuit F., Scott-Buechler C., Valenzuela J.M.
Title : , Earth System Governance, 19(100204): (2024)
Public attitude toward solar radiation modification: results of a two-scenario online survey on perception in four Asia-Pacific countries

Presenter : Sugiyama M., Asayama S., Kosugi T., Ishii A., Watanabe S.
Title : , Sustainability Science (2024)
The history and future of IPCC special reports: A dual role of politicisation and normalisation

Presenter : Asayama S.
Title : , Climatic Change, 177(137): (2024)
Normalized injustices in the national energy discourse: A critical analysis of the energy policy framework in Japan through the three tenets of energy justice

Presenter : HARTWIG M., Emori S., Asayama S.
Title : , Energy Policy, 174: (2023)
Alternative, but expensive, energy transition scenario featuring carbon capture and utilization can preserve existing energy demand technologies

Presenter : Oshiro K., Fujimori S., Hasegawa T., Asayama S., Shiraki H., Takahashi K.
Title : , One Earth, 6(7):872-883 (2023)
The oxymoron of carbon dioxide removal: Escaping carbon lock-in and yet perpetuating the fossil status quo?

Presenter : Asayama S.
Title : , Frontiers in Climate, 3:673515 (2021)
Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

Presenter : Asayama S., Hulme M., Markusson N.
Title : , Climatic Change, 167:25 (2021)
Threshold, budget and deadline: beyond the discourse of climate scarcity and control

Presenter : Asayama S.
Title : , Climatic Change, 167:33 (2021)
Are we ignoring a black elephant in the Anthropocene? Climate change and global pandemic as the crisis in health and equality

Presenter : Asayama S., Emori S., Sugiyama M., Kasuga F., Watanabe C.
Title : , Sustainability Science (2020)

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Controversies

Presenter : Asayama S., De Pryck K., Hulme M.
Title : , A Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2022)

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Carbon dioxide removal: perspectives from the social sciences and humanities

Presenter : Hansson A., Asayama S., Bottcher M., Fridahl M.
Title : , Frontiers in Climate, 6:1509331 (2024)
Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC

Presenter : Asayama S., De Pryck K., Beck S., Cointe B., Edwards P., Guillemot H., Gustafsson K., Hartz F., Hughes H., Lahn B., Leclerc O., Lidskog R., Livingston J., Lorenzoni I., MacDonald J., Mahony M., Miguel J., Monteiro M., O’Reilly J., Pearce W., Petersen A., Siebenhuner B., Skodvin T., Standring A., Sundqvist G., Taddei R., van Bavel B., Vardy M., Yamineva Y., Hulme M.
Title : , Nature Climate Change, 13:877-880 (2023)
Reconsidering the lower end of long-term climate scenarios

Presenter : Fujimori S., Nishiura O., Oshiro K., Hasegawa T., Shiraki H., Shiogama H., Takahashi K., Takakura J., Tsuchiya K., Sugiyama M., Asayama S.
Title : , PLOS CLIMATE, (16):1-5 (2023)