Asia Center for Air Pollution Research (ACAP)

Japan Environmental Sanitation Center

FY 2025 Other activities

Academic activities

Dr. Toshimasa OHARA

Second Lead Author Meeting of 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers(IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories)
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Next-Generation Monitoring and Assessment System for Air Pollution
  • Title: “Forum for Approaches to Air Pollution and Climate Action" Integrated Approaches to Air Pollution and Climate Action: Monitoring, Technology, and Financing from Japan
  • Organizer: Ministry of the Environment, Japan; Asia Center for Air Pollution Research
Current status of surface ozone and future projections based on 2050 scenarios in East Asia
  • Title: Air 2025・Smart Cities – Sustainable and Clean Air Technology Innovation Forum II
  • Organizer: National Central University
Overview and Formation Mechanism of Air Pollution - Based on Japan’s Air Pollution History -
  • Title: FY2025 JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program, Capacity Development towards Air Quality Management
  • Organizer: JICA

Dr. Meihua ZHU

■ Lecture
Synergistic Mitigation of Climate Change and Air Pollution In East Asia
  • Title: Forum on Energy and Climate meets in Ibaraki
  • Organizer: The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

Dr. Keiichi SATO

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Trend analysis of PM2.5 components measured by a continuous automatic analyzer at Japanese sites
  • Title: 2025 Annual Meeting of CRP-BAQONE Project
  • Organizer: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, National Institute of Environmental Research

Dr. Hiroyuki SASE

Member, Organizing Committee(10th International Nitrogen Conference, N2026)
Coordinator, Unit 8.04.06, Nitrogen and Sulfur Deposition(International Union of Forest Reserch Oranization, IUFRO)
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Establishment of a Next-Generation Monitoring and Assessment System for Air Pollution in East Asia
  • Title: Better Air Quality Conference 2026
  • Organizer: Clean Air Asia,the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

Dr. Junichi Kurokawa

North-East Asia Clean Air Partnership (NEACAP) Science and Policy Committee (SPC) Committee Member (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP)/North-East Asian Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation (NEASPEC))
IPCC Scoping Meeting Methodology Report on Short-lived Climate Forcers (SLCFs): 2027 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines Participants(IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories)

Mingqun Huo

CCQM-GAWG Task Group on Ozone Cross-Section Change Management Task team 6: Long Term Trends Team Member (BIPM)