The summit’s extensive programme unites the brightest minds across industries and governments, bringing together key sectors such as natural gas, hydrogen, ammonia, renewables, and emerging digital technologies. Through leadership panels, expert discussions, and collaborative dialogue, the event is essential for those looking to align their business strategies with the future of energy, ensuring sustainable growth, energy security, and decarbonisation.
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: From Clusters to Competitiveness: Transforming Heavy Industry through Fuel Switching, Infrastructure and Innovation",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s industrial transformation hinges on the reinvention of its major industrial zones – Chubu, Keihin, Kitakyushu, and others – as integrated energy and export hubs. These clusters concentrate heavy-emitting sectors such as steel, cement, refining, and transport, offering a unique opportunity to scale shared infrastructure for clean fuels, CCUS, and energy efficiency. But the challenge extends beyond decarbonisation: industrial players face mounting pressure from investors, customers, and policymakers to lead in climate performance without compromising cost or competitiveness. This session brings together leaders from across industry and infrastructure to explore how strategic fuel switching, cross-sector partnerships, and enabling finance are turning compliance into competitive advantage. </p>\n<p>What are the most viable pathways for transformation across hard-to-abate sectors? How can Japan’s clusters serve both domestic decarbonisation and regional export ambitions? And what public-private mechanisms are driving early investment in shared systems and international connectivity?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Learn how Japan’s industrial clusters are becoming launchpads for competitive industrial transformation – leveraging clean fuels, infrastructure, and strategic partnerships to enable growth and long-term resilience.</p>\n<p> </p>",
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"Title": "MINISTERIAL PANEL: Energy Security and Diplomacy in a Divided World",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Amid geopolitical rivalry, supply chain disruption, and shifting trade flows, Asia’s governments face a dual challenge: securing resilient domestic energy systems while strengthening international alliances. Japan’s reliance on seaborne fuels and global supply chains puts diplomacy at the centre of strategy – with the U.S., ASEAN, and the Middle East all playing critical roles. This ministerial dialogue explores how governments are recalibrating domestic security measures while engaging in trade, standards, and foreign policy to safeguard supply and competitiveness in a multipolar world. </p>\n<p>How are ministries addressing resilience at home? How is Japan using diplomacy to secure LNG, nuclear, hydrogen, and ammonia partnerships? Can Asia cooperate more closely on shared infrastructure, carbon standards, and trade rules?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Hear how Asian governments are redefining energy security and diplomacy – balancing domestic resilience with international partnerships to navigate an increasingly volatile global landscape.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: LNG in Asia’s Energy Future: Growth, Security, and Market Influence",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Asia remains the driving force in global LNG demand, with both established buyers and fast-growing new markets reshaping trade flows. As supply fragility, energy nationalism, and climate scrutiny intensify, the region’s role will hinge on flexible contracts, modernised infrastructure, and lower-carbon cargoes. With a wave of new LNG supply coming onstream, the market is shifting back in favour of buyers – prompting portfolio reviews and a recalibration between spot, short-term, and long-term contracts. Managing supply concentration risks as the U.S. and Qatar dominate future capacity, navigating geopolitical uncertainties that threaten project development, and balancing the need for supply diversity with competitive economics are all rising challenges for the region’s energy security. At the same time, utilities, traders, and governments are weighing buyer appetite for emerging LNG sources while expanding partnerships and influencing market rules at a pivotal moment for the global gas industry. </p>\n<p>How are buyers adapting to shifting supply dynamics and carbon regulations? Which infrastructure priorities will unlock long-term resilience? How can Asia leverage its market influence to drive innovation and stability in LNG?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain a strategic, Asia-wide perspective on how LNG is evolving to meet rising demand, manage concentration and geopolitical risks, and shape the future of global gas markets through innovation, resilience, and market influence.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Hydrogen and Ammonia at Scale: Turning Value Chains into Viable Markets",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Hydrogen and ammonia are moving from pilots to large-scale deployment, but demand in power, shipping, and industry still lacks commercial certainty. Building commercial confidence will require co-investment in transport and storage infrastructure, harmonised certification schemes, and bankable offtake agreements that can underpin multi-billion-dollar supply chains. While CfDs will play a supporting role in bridging cost gaps, the central challenge now is whether international partnerships and market design can move beyond feasibility studies to deliver cost competitiveness, bankable contracts, and predictable demand. </p>\n<p>Which sectors are closest to commercial uptake of hydrogen and ammonia? What policy, pricing, and certification mechanisms will stimulate demand and de-risk investment? How can regional and global cooperation align infrastructure, standards, and trade flows to accelerate market formation? What lessons can be learnt from European subsidy frameworks, and how can their design and implementation be adapted to accelerate hydrogen and ammonia market formation in Asia?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Explore how industry and government are moving hydrogen and ammonia from strategy to system-wide adoption, with international partnerships and market mechanisms driving demand creation and commercial certainty.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Competing Visions: How Will the Global Energy System Evolve by 2035?",
"sessionDescription": "<p>The global energy system is entering a period of profound transformation – defined by geopolitical fragmentation, climate ambition, shifting trade flows, and accelerating demand from electrification and AI. CEOs must navigate an increasingly complex mix of security pressures, investment constraints, and transition demands. LNG, clean hydrogen, and flexible thermal supply are gaining prominence alongside the rapid scale-up of clean power. The path forward won’t be linear – but will reward those who balance realism with ambition and forge partnerships across borders and sectors. </p>\n<p>What investment priorities will define leadership in the next energy cycle? How are CEOs adjusting strategies to manage volatility, policy uncertainty, and rising demand? Where are the next opportunities for growth, resilience, and regional collaboration?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Learn how global energy CEOs are navigating complexity, redefining competitiveness, and shaping the long-term evolution of energy systems worldwide.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Energy Transformation at Scale: Delivering the Next Wave of Global Projects",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Global energy transition ambitions are now colliding with the realities of large-scale project delivery. From LNG and hydrogen hubs to offshore wind arrays, CCUS networks, and grid-scale storage, the next decade will demand unprecedented capital deployment, infrastructure buildout, and cross-border coordination. Yet cost inflation, supply chain fragility, labour shortages, and permitting delays are threatening timelines and budgets. The race is on to mobilise the finance, EPC capacity, and regulatory certainty needed to execute transformative projects at speed and scale. </p>\n<p>How are global energy companies rethinking project design, contracting, and risk allocation to keep pace with demand? Which regions and technologies are emerging as the most bankable opportunities for large-scale deployment? How can industry and government work together to overcome the delivery bottlenecks holding back the next wave of investment?</p>\n<p>Attendee Insights: </p>\n<p>Understand how industry leaders are overcoming cost, capacity, and coordination challenges to deliver the flagship projects that will define the next phase of the global energy transition.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: From Vision to Delivery: Japan’s Strategic Energy Future",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s 7th Strategic Energy Plan balances energy security with decarbonisation – keeping LNG as the backbone of reliable supply while scaling renewables, hydrogen, ammonia, nuclear, and electrification. Delivery now depends on execution at scale. New tools such as the Long-Term Decarbonisation Power Source Auction (LTDA) and Contracts for Difference (CfDs) are being deployed alongside LNG investment, grid upgrades, and transition finance to unlock bankable projects and attract capital. At the same time, scenario planning is becoming central to Japan’s policy process, ensuring today’s investment choices remain resilient to multiple futures – from shifting trade patterns to disruptive technologies. With Japan and its neighbours already looking toward 2050 and beyond, the conversation is expanding from near-term delivery to how post-2050 pathways can shape competitiveness, resilience, and decarbonisation across the region. </p>\n<p>What are the most urgent delivery priorities across Japan’s energy mix? How can LTDA, CfDs, and other mechanisms build investor confidence while balancing security with transition? How can scenario planning and post-2050 strategies guide today’s investment and regulatory decisions?</p>\n<p>Attendee Insights:</p>\n<p>Understand how Japan is shifting from vision to delivery – combining LNG security with clean energy growth, scenario planning, and post-2050 strategies to strengthen bankability, resilience, and long-term competitiveness.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Fuelling the Future: Upstream Strategy in an Era of Fragmentation",
"sessionDescription": "<p>As demand for LNG and low-carbon fuels continues to grow in Asia, upstream investment is once again a strategic imperative – but the playing field has changed. Geopolitical fragmentation, shifting capital flows, and rising resource nationalism are redefining access, risk, and return. For Japan and other import-reliant economies, securing future supply now means more than long-term contracts – it means upstream partnerships, equity investments, and diplomatic alignment. From the US and Qatar to Southeast Asia and Alaska, new supply is coming online – but competition for offtake and financing is intensifying. </p>\n<p>How are upstream producers adjusting to shifting investor sentiment and geopolitical risk? What role can Japan play in anchoring new supply through equity stakes and offtake agreements? How are energy companies balancing short-term supply reliability with long-term transition positioning?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Explore how global upstream strategies are evolving – and what Japan and Asia must do to ensure long-term, secure access to natural gas and future fuels in a divided energy landscape.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: From Utility to System Orchestrator: Building the Digital Backbone of Urban Electrification",
"sessionDescription": "<p>As electrification accelerates across cities, transport, and industry, utilities are no longer passive retailers – they are becoming the orchestrators of tomorrow’s energy systems. Beyond supplying power, their role now spans managing distributed energy resources, enabling smart city infrastructure, and expanding EV charging networks. This transition requires mastering dynamic pricing, balancing consumption across clusters of energy-intensive users, and strengthening interconnections between regions such as Hokkaido and Kyushu to relieve bottlenecks and share capacity. At the same time, limited network capacity and the integration of electricity supply with real-time usage are pressing challenges that demand investment in digital platforms and AI-driven intelligence. </p>\n<p>How are utilities reshaping their commercial models to capture new value beyond commodity supply, including through dynamic pricing and integrated services? What leading examples of interregional grid connections and urban electrification clusters demonstrate how supply, demand, and digital intelligence can be synchronised? Which regulatory and investment frameworks can unlock capacity expansion and enable utilities to evolve into true system orchestrators?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Discover how utilities are redefining their role in a digital, decentralised energy landscape – building integrated, intelligent systems that connect users, clusters, and regions while unlocking new value streams across the electrification chain.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Intelligent Energy: Harnessing AI for Resilient, Efficient Systems",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from concept to deployment across the energy sector – from optimising LNG trading and power plant operations, to enabling predictive maintenance, grid flexibility, demand response, and carbon tracking. In Japan, where digitalisation is central to the Seventh Strategic Energy Plan, AI offers a pathway to improve demand forecasting, integrate renewables, support EV adoption, enhance demand-side management, and reduce system costs. Globally, AI is already being applied in commodity trading, asset optimisation, and customer platforms, creating opportunities for both incumbents and innovators. But challenges remain: data sharing, cyber resilience, workforce readiness, and regulatory alignment will shape how far and how fast the sector can go. </p>\n<p>How can AI unlock new efficiency gains across power, LNG, and renewables value chains, including demand-side flexibility? What lessons can Japan take from global pioneers in AI-driven grid management, trading, and emissions reduction? What safeguards and governance are needed to ensure AI adoption enhances resilience without creating new vulnerabilities?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Hear how global energy leaders are deploying AI across trading, grids, demand response, and customer platforms – and what it means for Japan’s drive toward a smarter, more resilient, and low-carbon energy system.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: From Vision to Value Chain: Building a Commercial CCUS Ecosystem for Japan and Southeast Asia",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan is entering a decisive phase in its carbon management strategy, launching its first full-chain CCUS projects with leadership from the Ministry of Environment, JAPEX, and JOGMEC. These efforts – focused on industrial clusters, CO₂ shipping, and bilateral storage agreements – are laying the foundation for a viable domestic and regional carbon value chain. At the same time, Southeast Asia is emerging as a key partner in Japan’s regional strategy, with CCUS hubs in Singapore, Sarawak, and West Java offering storage access and investment opportunities. </p>\n<p>How can Japan align regulation, infrastructure, and public-private financing to unlock scale? What lessons from global pioneers can help accelerate deployment? And how can Japan and ASEAN jointly develop the standards, shipping routes, and partnerships to create a bankable regional CCUS ecosystem?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain a strategic perspective on how the Asia-Pacific can develop an interconnected CCUS market – linking projects, infrastructure, and standards to drive large-scale deployment and new commercial opportunities.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Japan’s Carbon Market Evolution: Delivering Compliance by 2026",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s Green Transformation Emissions Trading System (GX-ETS) is entering a decisive phase, shifting from a voluntary framework to mandatory participation in 2026. This transition will bring hundreds of major emitters into compliance, requiring robust MRV systems, regulatory oversight, and new market infrastructure to support effective emissions trading. For companies, the shift means embedding carbon costs into strategy, investing in emissions reduction pathways, and engaging actively with policymakers to shape workable rules. The question now is whether GX-ETS can deliver both compliance and competitiveness, while aligning with Japan’s wider decarbonisation and industrial policies. </p>\n<p>How is GX-ETS changing corporate behaviour and investment decisions as it moves to compliance? What challenges and opportunities arise for businesses, investors, and regulators in building a credible, liquid carbon market? How will the compliance system integrate with Japan’s broader climate and industrial strategies on the path to net zero?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain clarity on Japan’s transition to a compliance-driven carbon market – and what businesses must do now to prepare for 2026 and beyond.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Southeast Asia’s LNG Growth Frontier: Infrastructure, Access, and New Demand Hubs",
"sessionDescription": "<p>A surge of LNG demand is emerging across Southeast Asia, driven by new regas terminals, FSRUs, small-scale LNG hubs, and gas-to-power developments from Vietnam to the Philippines. With significant new global supply coming online, the region is poised to become a vital frontier for demand creation, infrastructure investment, and regional LNG trade. Key markets are advancing ambitious plans to reform markets, diversify supply, and attract investment, creating new opportunities for regional and international players. </p>\n<p>Which Southeast Asian markets are setting the pace? How are buyers and investors adapting to shifting supply dynamics and pricing structures? What partnerships will accelerate project delivery and long-term growth?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Southeast Asia is unlocking new LNG demand through infrastructure investment, flexible delivery models, and regional collaboration.</p>",
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"sessionDescription": "<p>LNG remains a cornerstone of Asia’s energy security and competitiveness – but its long-term credibility depends on accelerating emissions reductions across its value chain. From upstream methane abatement and CCUS at liquefaction plants to cleaner shipping and emissions-transparent trading, the industry is rethinking its operations to meet tightening climate targets. Technologies, policies, and market mechanisms are emerging to drive down lifecycle CO₂ and methane emissions, while also positioning LNG infrastructure for future roles in hydrogen, ammonia, and CO₂ transport. </p>\n<p>How far and fast can these reductions go in the next decade? Which investments deliver the greatest emissions impact per dollar spent? How can industry and governments collaborate to set, measure, and enforce credible standards that withstand global scrutiny?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain clarity on the pace, scale, and economics of cutting LNG’s carbon footprint – and the strategies shaping its place in tomorrow’s clean energy mix.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Women in Energy: Power, Purpose and Progress for Asia’s Energy Future",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Asia’s energy sector is entering a period of generational change – and women are increasingly at the forefront of diplomacy, investment, innovation and regulation. This high-profile dialogue brings together accomplished women from government, industry and finance to discuss not just representation, but responsibility. </p>\n<p>How are they navigating complexity, shaping outcomes, and defining what leadership looks like in a time of transition? What’s changing about how women lead in energy – and what impact is it having? Where is gender equity intersected with national and corporate energy strategy? What advice would today’s leaders offer to those just starting their energy journey?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain inspiration and insight from the women influencing Asia’s energy path – and what their stories reveal about leadership, resilience and opportunity in 2026 and beyond.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Nuclear Innovation: The Role of SMRs, Public Trust and Energy Security",
"sessionDescription": "<div class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW16718420 BCX8\">\n<p>Japan’s nuclear sector is entering a new phase, with plans for restarts and advanced reactor development. Small modular reactors (SMRs), next-gen safety features, and integration with clean hydrogen offer renewed relevance. But public trust, cost certainty and international cooperation remain barriers to progress. Japan’s strategy must reconcile innovation with transparency and resilience. </p>\n<p>How are SMRs and next-gen designs reshaping Japan’s nuclear roadmap? What policy and engagement strategies are rebuilding public and investor trust? How can Japan position nuclear as part of a resilient, diversified clean energy mix?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain insights into how innovation, safety and public support are redefining nuclear’s contribution to Japan’s energy and climate goals.</p>\n</div>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Demand-Driven Transition: How End-Users Are Shaping Energy Markets",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Energy-intensive industries and digital platforms are becoming the new drivers of transition. Steel, cement, and chemical companies are under pressure from CBAM and ESG investors, while data centres and transport are creating unprecedented new loads. Japan’s end-users are not just consumers but co-investors – signing PPAs, piloting hydrogen and ammonia, and building closed-loop systems for decarbonisation. Their choices will determine how fast new technologies scale, how financing models evolve, and how competitiveness is defined. </p>\n<p>How are Japan’s energy-intensive industries preparing for carbon costs and trade-linked climate policies? What role are digital and tech companies playing in stimulating new clean energy projects? How can policy, finance, and partnerships accelerate demand-driven decarbonisation?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Discover how industrial and digital end-users are becoming pivotal to Japan’s GX – driving demand for clean fuels, renewables, and financing models that will anchor system-wide transition.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Japan’s LNG Trading Future: New Supply, New Tools, New Opportunities",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan remains the world’s largest LNG importer, but its trading dynamics are being reshaped by the surge of new supply from the US, Canada, and Qatar. These projects, combined with Japan’s position as a price-sensitive anchor market, are fostering deeper liquidity and new derivative products. At the same time, advancements in digital platforms, market intelligence, and emissions-tracking tools are creating more transparent, flexible trading environments. As Japanese buyers rebalance their portfolios, the opportunity lies not just in securing volumes, but in shaping the next phase of LNG price discovery and risk management in Asia. </p>\n<p>How will new supply from North America and the Middle East reshape Japan’s trading strategies and contract structures? What role can Japanese players take in driving the development of new benchmarks, derivatives, and carbon-linked LNG products? How can technology, data, and market intelligence tools enhance liquidity, transparency, and emissions tracking in LNG trading?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Japan’s LNG buyers and traders are leveraging new supply sources and digital tools to expand derivatives, deepen market liquidity, and position Tokyo as a key hub in global LNG trading.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Reinventing Refineries: Integration, Efficiency and Decarbonisation",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s refining and petrochemical sector faces a turning point. Declining domestic fuel demand, tighter emissions expectations, and rising global competition are forcing downstream players to rethink their role in the energy system. Rather than divest or downsize, Japan’s refiners are exploring integration with petrochemicals, efficiency upgrades, clean hydrogen, e-fuels, and circular economy solutions. The challenge – and opportunity – is to transition from commodity fuel producers to value-added industrial platforms aligned with new energy demands. </p>\n<p>How are Japan’s leading refiners adapting their portfolios to balance profitability and decarbonisation? What new revenue streams – from SAF to chemical recycling – can enhance resilience? How can refineries become anchors for regional clean energy ecosystems and innovation zones?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong> </p>\n<p>Learn how Japan’s downstream players are evolving from traditional fuel producers to integrated, future-ready industrial hubs – blending competitiveness with climate alignment.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Clean Fuels in Shipping: From LNG Carriers to Next-Generation Fleets",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Global shipping is under growing pressure from the IMO and markets to decarbonise, and Japan is positioning itself as a leader in the transition. With LNG carriers forming the backbone of today’s fleet, the industry now faces hard choices: whether to double down on LNG as a transition fuel or move early into ammonia, e-methanol, and other clean alternatives. Japan is investing in ammonia-ready engines, bunkering hubs, and pilot corridors with Asia-Pacific partners – but questions remain around deployment timelines, costs, and commercial risk. </p>\n<p>How are shipowners balancing LNG’s role as a bridge fuel with investment in new clean-fuel vessels? Which alliances, ports, and corridors will drive early adoption of ammonia and e-methanol? What role can Japanese buyers, ports, and technology providers play in accelerating commercial rollout?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Japan’s clean fuel strategy is influencing LNG shipping decisions today – and shaping the design of the next generation of global fleets.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Ammonia Ambitions: Building Japan’s Next Green Fuel Supply Chain",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Clean ammonia is moving from concept to commercial reality, with Japan positioned as a central demand hub in the emerging global market. Falling production costs, the rise of export hubs in the U.S., Middle East, Australia, and China, and the scaling of maritime and industrial use are reshaping trade flows. To secure supply at scale, Japan must connect to these global markets through long-term offtake, investment in storage and bunkering, and coordinated infrastructure development. Certification, pricing models, and predictable demand signals will be critical to anchor confidence for producers and buyers alike. </p>\n<p>What role will global supply partnerships play in ensuring Japan’s energy security and industrial decarbonisation? How will cost trends and certification frameworks influence procurement and market formation? What infrastructure priorities – from import terminals to bunkering and storage – are needed to build a resilient, internationally connected ammonia supply chain?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain perspective on how Japan is linking into the global ammonia market – securing supply, scaling storage and bunkering, and forging partnerships that will underpin future trade and industrial decarbonisation.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Solar and Wind at Every Scale: From Deployment to Commercialisation",
"sessionDescription": "<p>From Tokyo rooftops to offshore farms, Japan is accelerating renewable growth across multiple scales. Rooftop solar and distributed projects are creating opportunities to aggregate capacity and cut urban emissions, while offshore and onshore wind are critical to expanding the country’s clean energy base and industrial competitiveness. Yet deployment alone is not enough – renewables must be fully commercialised through market design, revenue certainty, and financing structures that attract sustained investment. Success will depend on rapid permitting, digital aggregation, grid interconnection, and robust supply chains, but also on clear pathways to monetise output through PPAs, green certificates, and export opportunities. </p>\n<p>How can Japan capture cost efficiencies while commercialising renewables across rooftop, onshore, and offshore projects? What investment, financing, and regulatory levers are most effective in turning capacity growth into bankable, long-term markets? How can digital tools, aggregation models, and corporate demand accelerate the commercial uptake of renewables?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Japan can scale renewables at every level – while ensuring deployment translates into commercially viable, investment-ready markets that support competitiveness and long-term resilience.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Drop-In, Scale Up: Biofuels, SAF and e-Methane for Asia’s Industrial Future",
"sessionDescription": "<p>As Asia’s demand for transport and industrial energy rises, drop-in fuels such as biofuels, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and synthetic e-methane are emerging as critical tools for real-world decarbonisation. Across the region, producers, policymakers, and end-users are advancing partnerships, certification standards, and integration of low-carbon molecules into hard-to-electrify sectors. The challenge now is scaling supply chains, securing feedstocks, and ensuring cost competitiveness to meet growing demand. With falling technology costs and rising international interest, these fuels could form the backbone of a resilient, export-ready, and flexible energy future. </p>\n<p>How can adoption be accelerated while building regional production and distribution networks? What role can public policy and trade diplomacy play in securing feedstock, pricing incentives, and infrastructure investment? Can Asia establish a competitive, scalable low-carbon fuels ecosystem that supports both energy security and industrial growth?</p>\n<p>Attendee Insights: </p>\n<p>Learn how cross-border collaboration, investment, and policy innovation are turning drop-in fuels into scalable solutions for Asia’s industrial and transport decarbonisation.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Powering Intelligence: Securing Affordable Clean Energy for AI Growth in Asia",
"sessionDescription": "<p>AI is becoming one of the world’s fastest-growing energy consumers, fuelled by hyperscale data centres, cloud services, and advanced computing. For Japan and Asia, this creates an urgent challenge: ensuring abundant, reliable, and low-carbon electricity to support digital growth without undermining decarbonisation goals – and without imposing unsustainable costs on consumers and industry. Delivering this balance will require new long-term PPAs, accelerated grid upgrades, flexible LNG and nuclear backstops, and regional cooperation on renewables and interconnections. It also raises difficult questions of pricing and prioritisation: should energy for AI and digital infrastructure be priced differently to reflect its strategic value, or managed to avoid crowding out other critical sectors? </p>\n<p>How can Japan and Asia balance surging AI electricity needs with climate, security, and affordability commitments? What financing and policy frameworks can lower the cost of clean power projects and grid reinforcements at the pace AI requires? Should energy be priced or prioritised differently for AI and digital services, and what are the risks of such an approach? How can partnerships across technology, energy, and government unlock innovative, cost-effective models for powering the next era of digital intelligence?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain insight into how Asia can deliver abundant, low-cost, and low-carbon power for AI – ensuring digital growth is built on a foundation of resilience, competitiveness, and sustainability.</p>",
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"Title": "SPOTLIGHT FIRESIDE CHAT: Regional Leadership in Japan’s GX Transition: From Wind to Semiconductors",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s regional governments are stepping into the spotlight as critical enablers of the Green Transformation (GX), shaping local projects that have national and global significance. In Hokkaido, large-scale wind and renewable development is positioning the island as a future powerhouse for clean energy. Sapporo is emerging as a green hub, aligning city-level strategy with investment in low-carbon infrastructure and technology. In Kyushu, AI, semiconductor, and data centre projects are creating an energy-intensive innovation cluster that will demand new models of power procurement, efficiency, and resilience. </p>\n<p>How are regional governments in Japan creating the policy and infrastructure conditions for GX success? What role can private companies play in scaling projects that balance local priorities with national strategy? How can lessons from Hokkaido, Sapporo, and Kyushu be replicated or adapted in other regions to drive economic and energy transformation?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain unique perspective on how local government leaders and corporate partners are shaping GX delivery on the ground – from renewables in Hokkaido to digital and industrial hubs in Kyushu.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Batteries and Geopolitics: Securing Storage for Energy Security and Flexibility",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Energy storage has become a critical enabler of renewable integration, grid flexibility, and peak demand management – but it is also emerging as a strategic vulnerability. As countries accelerate solar, wind, and electrification, battery deployment is increasingly shaped by geopolitical realities: critical mineral supply risks, concentrated manufacturing in a few countries, and tightening export controls on key technologies. In Japan, the Long-Term Decarbonization Power Source Auction (LTDA) is playing a pivotal role in creating stability and bankability for battery energy storage systems (BESS), providing long-term revenue visibility and helping integrate storage into national and regional power markets. This model demonstrates how policy and market design can underpin commercial confidence while supporting resilience at grid level. Building a robust storage ecosystem will require not only technical innovation, but also coordinated industrial policy, system-level planning, and strong international partnerships. </p>\n<p>Which storage technologies are most commercially viable for different power systems and geographies? How are governments, LTDAs, and companies addressing geopolitical risk in battery supply chains? What policy tools and investment strategies can accelerate deployment while strengthening resilience and regional collaboration?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how storage – supported by Japan’s LTDA framework – can be scaled to balance renewables, enhance grid reliability, and safeguard energy security in an era of geopolitical competition.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Powering a Connected Asia: Market Reform, Grid Integration and Japan’s Regional Role",
"sessionDescription": "<p>As electricity demand rises and systems decarbonise, market reform is no longer just a domestic agenda – it’s a regional imperative. Japan’s experience with liberalisation, flexibility markets, and unbundling offers a critical reference point for neighbouring economies seeking to modernise their power sectors. At the same time, greater regional grid integration – from HVDC links to shared flexibility services – offers huge potential to enhance energy security, reduce costs, and support variable renewables. But policy alignment, regulatory interoperability, and investment incentives remain uneven. </p>\n<p>How can Japan help shape a connected, competitive power market across Asia? What lessons can be drawn from Japan’s deregulation and balancing reforms? And what new coordination models could enable cross-border trade and system resilience across the region?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Japan’s market evolution and regional leadership can accelerate power sector integration, flexibility, and investment across Asia.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: The Future of Power Generation: Balancing LNG, Thermal, and Renewables for System Resilience",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Asia sits at the heart of the global energy transition, accounting for nearly half of global emissions and energy demand. The region’s challenge is acute: phasing down coal, which drives more than 90% of Asia’s power sector emissions, while meeting fast-rising electricity needs from electrification, industry, and AI-driven growth. Renewables will lead the shift, but gas and flexible thermal remain vital to enable coal-to-clean transitions and ensure system stability. Advances in storage, digital grids, and regional interconnections will redefine capacity deployment, but approaches must reflect each nation’s starting point and priorities. The task is not just to meet demand, but to build abundant, resilient power systems that reduce emissions and position energy as a driver of competitiveness. </p>\n<p>How can investment and regulation accelerate coal phase-out while maintaining reliability and affordability? What models can unlock export-ready clean power and scale renewables alongside LNG? How can diverse national strategies add up to meaningful emissions reductions across Asia?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Asia can balance renewables, LNG, and thermal power to deliver resilience, affordability, and emissions reduction – securing energy abundance as a foundation for economic growth.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Financing the Energy Transformation: Unlocking Capital for Asia’s Projects",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Rising costs, policy uncertainty, and geopolitical fragmentation are reshaping how energy projects are financed and delivered across Asia. For developers and project owners, securing capital has become more complex just as the need for large-scale investment intensifies – across clean fuels, CCUS, grid upgrades, and industrial decarbonisation. Japan’s public and private finance ecosystems must now work together to de-risk investment, mobilise blended capital, and structure financing mechanisms that support commercial-scale deployment. </p>\n<p>How can developers tap into evolving instruments like transition bonds, export credits, and sovereign guarantees? What approaches are proving most effective in managing risk across borders and technologies? How can Japan’s financing institutions help unlock momentum for regional energy transition delivery?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain practical insight into how developers can navigate rising costs and complex risk to structure viable, bankable projects across Asia’s evolving energy landscape.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Securing the Foundations: Critical Minerals for the Energy Transition",
"sessionDescription": "<p>From copper and lithium to rare earth elements, critical minerals underpin every pillar of the energy transition – from batteries and wind turbines to grid infrastructure and EVs. Yet supply chains remain concentrated, geopolitically exposed, and environmentally contentious. Global competition for these resources is intensifying as demand projections soar, while permitting delays, ESG scrutiny, and export controls threaten availability. The challenge now is to secure reliable, diversified supply chains that balance cost, sustainability, and national security. </p>\n<p>How can governments and companies collaborate to diversify sources and invest in refining and processing capacity? Which trade, tariff, and stockpiling strategies will mitigate supply shocks? How can recycling and circular economy approaches reduce long-term dependency on virgin extraction?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Understand how critical mineral supply chains are evolving – and the strategies needed to secure access, manage risk, and enable large-scale deployment of clean energy technologies.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Carbon Tariffs and Trade: Competing in a Global Market",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Beyond Japan’s domestic system, carbon policy is becoming a decisive factor in global trade. From the EU’s CBAM to U.S. carbon tariffs and evolving schemes across Asia, emissions data and product standards are now determining market access and industrial competitiveness. China’s national ETS, Korea’s established carbon market, and India’s pilot trading system highlight the speed of change in Asia – raising questions about how regional policies will interact and converge. For Japan’s exporters, aligning with these frameworks is as critical as preparing for GX-ETS at home. The challenge is not only compliance, but also shaping international standards, negotiating market rules, and positioning Japan within the future of East Asia’s carbon pricing landscape. </p>\n<p>How are ETS systems evolving across Asia, Europe, and the U.S., and what lessons can Japan draw from them? How can Japan’s GX-ETS fit into the broader global and regional context to protect competitiveness and market access? What role will East Asia play in shaping the future of carbon pricing, standards, and trade-linked climate policy?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how global and regional carbon regulations are reshaping competitiveness – and how Japan can position its industries within the next phase of international and East Asian carbon markets.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: From Clusters to Competitiveness: Transforming Heavy Industry through Fuel Switching, Infrastructure and Innovation",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s industrial transformation hinges on the reinvention of its major industrial zones – Chubu, Keihin, Kitakyushu, and others – as integrated energy and export hubs. These clusters concentrate heavy-emitting sectors such as steel, cement, refining, and transport, offering a unique opportunity to scale shared infrastructure for clean fuels, CCUS, and energy efficiency. But the challenge extends beyond decarbonisation: industrial players face mounting pressure from investors, customers, and policymakers to lead in climate performance without compromising cost or competitiveness. This session brings together leaders from across industry and infrastructure to explore how strategic fuel switching, cross-sector partnerships, and enabling finance are turning compliance into competitive advantage. </p>\n<p>What are the most viable pathways for transformation across hard-to-abate sectors? How can Japan’s clusters serve both domestic decarbonisation and regional export ambitions? And what public-private mechanisms are driving early investment in shared systems and international connectivity?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Learn how Japan’s industrial clusters are becoming launchpads for competitive industrial transformation – leveraging clean fuels, infrastructure, and strategic partnerships to enable growth and long-term resilience.</p>\n<p> </p>",
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"Title": "MINISTERIAL PANEL: Energy Security and Diplomacy in a Divided World",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Amid geopolitical rivalry, supply chain disruption, and shifting trade flows, Asia’s governments face a dual challenge: securing resilient domestic energy systems while strengthening international alliances. Japan’s reliance on seaborne fuels and global supply chains puts diplomacy at the centre of strategy – with the U.S., ASEAN, and the Middle East all playing critical roles. This ministerial dialogue explores how governments are recalibrating domestic security measures while engaging in trade, standards, and foreign policy to safeguard supply and competitiveness in a multipolar world. </p>\n<p>How are ministries addressing resilience at home? How is Japan using diplomacy to secure LNG, nuclear, hydrogen, and ammonia partnerships? Can Asia cooperate more closely on shared infrastructure, carbon standards, and trade rules?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Hear how Asian governments are redefining energy security and diplomacy – balancing domestic resilience with international partnerships to navigate an increasingly volatile global landscape.</p>",
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"sessionDescription": "<p>Asia remains the driving force in global LNG demand, with both established buyers and fast-growing new markets reshaping trade flows. As supply fragility, energy nationalism, and climate scrutiny intensify, the region’s role will hinge on flexible contracts, modernised infrastructure, and lower-carbon cargoes. With a wave of new LNG supply coming onstream, the market is shifting back in favour of buyers – prompting portfolio reviews and a recalibration between spot, short-term, and long-term contracts. Managing supply concentration risks as the U.S. and Qatar dominate future capacity, navigating geopolitical uncertainties that threaten project development, and balancing the need for supply diversity with competitive economics are all rising challenges for the region’s energy security. At the same time, utilities, traders, and governments are weighing buyer appetite for emerging LNG sources while expanding partnerships and influencing market rules at a pivotal moment for the global gas industry. </p>\n<p>How are buyers adapting to shifting supply dynamics and carbon regulations? Which infrastructure priorities will unlock long-term resilience? How can Asia leverage its market influence to drive innovation and stability in LNG?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain a strategic, Asia-wide perspective on how LNG is evolving to meet rising demand, manage concentration and geopolitical risks, and shape the future of global gas markets through innovation, resilience, and market influence.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Hydrogen and Ammonia at Scale: Turning Value Chains into Viable Markets",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Hydrogen and ammonia are moving from pilots to large-scale deployment, but demand in power, shipping, and industry still lacks commercial certainty. Building commercial confidence will require co-investment in transport and storage infrastructure, harmonised certification schemes, and bankable offtake agreements that can underpin multi-billion-dollar supply chains. While CfDs will play a supporting role in bridging cost gaps, the central challenge now is whether international partnerships and market design can move beyond feasibility studies to deliver cost competitiveness, bankable contracts, and predictable demand. </p>\n<p>Which sectors are closest to commercial uptake of hydrogen and ammonia? What policy, pricing, and certification mechanisms will stimulate demand and de-risk investment? How can regional and global cooperation align infrastructure, standards, and trade flows to accelerate market formation? What lessons can be learnt from European subsidy frameworks, and how can their design and implementation be adapted to accelerate hydrogen and ammonia market formation in Asia?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Explore how industry and government are moving hydrogen and ammonia from strategy to system-wide adoption, with international partnerships and market mechanisms driving demand creation and commercial certainty.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Competing Visions: How Will the Global Energy System Evolve by 2035?",
"sessionDescription": "<p>The global energy system is entering a period of profound transformation – defined by geopolitical fragmentation, climate ambition, shifting trade flows, and accelerating demand from electrification and AI. CEOs must navigate an increasingly complex mix of security pressures, investment constraints, and transition demands. LNG, clean hydrogen, and flexible thermal supply are gaining prominence alongside the rapid scale-up of clean power. The path forward won’t be linear – but will reward those who balance realism with ambition and forge partnerships across borders and sectors. </p>\n<p>What investment priorities will define leadership in the next energy cycle? How are CEOs adjusting strategies to manage volatility, policy uncertainty, and rising demand? Where are the next opportunities for growth, resilience, and regional collaboration?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Learn how global energy CEOs are navigating complexity, redefining competitiveness, and shaping the long-term evolution of energy systems worldwide.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Energy Transformation at Scale: Delivering the Next Wave of Global Projects",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Global energy transition ambitions are now colliding with the realities of large-scale project delivery. From LNG and hydrogen hubs to offshore wind arrays, CCUS networks, and grid-scale storage, the next decade will demand unprecedented capital deployment, infrastructure buildout, and cross-border coordination. Yet cost inflation, supply chain fragility, labour shortages, and permitting delays are threatening timelines and budgets. The race is on to mobilise the finance, EPC capacity, and regulatory certainty needed to execute transformative projects at speed and scale. </p>\n<p>How are global energy companies rethinking project design, contracting, and risk allocation to keep pace with demand? Which regions and technologies are emerging as the most bankable opportunities for large-scale deployment? How can industry and government work together to overcome the delivery bottlenecks holding back the next wave of investment?</p>\n<p>Attendee Insights: </p>\n<p>Understand how industry leaders are overcoming cost, capacity, and coordination challenges to deliver the flagship projects that will define the next phase of the global energy transition.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: From Vision to Delivery: Japan’s Strategic Energy Future",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s 7th Strategic Energy Plan balances energy security with decarbonisation – keeping LNG as the backbone of reliable supply while scaling renewables, hydrogen, ammonia, nuclear, and electrification. Delivery now depends on execution at scale. New tools such as the Long-Term Decarbonisation Power Source Auction (LTDA) and Contracts for Difference (CfDs) are being deployed alongside LNG investment, grid upgrades, and transition finance to unlock bankable projects and attract capital. At the same time, scenario planning is becoming central to Japan’s policy process, ensuring today’s investment choices remain resilient to multiple futures – from shifting trade patterns to disruptive technologies. With Japan and its neighbours already looking toward 2050 and beyond, the conversation is expanding from near-term delivery to how post-2050 pathways can shape competitiveness, resilience, and decarbonisation across the region. </p>\n<p>What are the most urgent delivery priorities across Japan’s energy mix? How can LTDA, CfDs, and other mechanisms build investor confidence while balancing security with transition? How can scenario planning and post-2050 strategies guide today’s investment and regulatory decisions?</p>\n<p>Attendee Insights:</p>\n<p>Understand how Japan is shifting from vision to delivery – combining LNG security with clean energy growth, scenario planning, and post-2050 strategies to strengthen bankability, resilience, and long-term competitiveness.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Fuelling the Future: Upstream Strategy in an Era of Fragmentation",
"sessionDescription": "<p>As demand for LNG and low-carbon fuels continues to grow in Asia, upstream investment is once again a strategic imperative – but the playing field has changed. Geopolitical fragmentation, shifting capital flows, and rising resource nationalism are redefining access, risk, and return. For Japan and other import-reliant economies, securing future supply now means more than long-term contracts – it means upstream partnerships, equity investments, and diplomatic alignment. From the US and Qatar to Southeast Asia and Alaska, new supply is coming online – but competition for offtake and financing is intensifying. </p>\n<p>How are upstream producers adjusting to shifting investor sentiment and geopolitical risk? What role can Japan play in anchoring new supply through equity stakes and offtake agreements? How are energy companies balancing short-term supply reliability with long-term transition positioning?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Explore how global upstream strategies are evolving – and what Japan and Asia must do to ensure long-term, secure access to natural gas and future fuels in a divided energy landscape.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: From Utility to System Orchestrator: Building the Digital Backbone of Urban Electrification",
"sessionDescription": "<p>As electrification accelerates across cities, transport, and industry, utilities are no longer passive retailers – they are becoming the orchestrators of tomorrow’s energy systems. Beyond supplying power, their role now spans managing distributed energy resources, enabling smart city infrastructure, and expanding EV charging networks. This transition requires mastering dynamic pricing, balancing consumption across clusters of energy-intensive users, and strengthening interconnections between regions such as Hokkaido and Kyushu to relieve bottlenecks and share capacity. At the same time, limited network capacity and the integration of electricity supply with real-time usage are pressing challenges that demand investment in digital platforms and AI-driven intelligence. </p>\n<p>How are utilities reshaping their commercial models to capture new value beyond commodity supply, including through dynamic pricing and integrated services? What leading examples of interregional grid connections and urban electrification clusters demonstrate how supply, demand, and digital intelligence can be synchronised? Which regulatory and investment frameworks can unlock capacity expansion and enable utilities to evolve into true system orchestrators?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Discover how utilities are redefining their role in a digital, decentralised energy landscape – building integrated, intelligent systems that connect users, clusters, and regions while unlocking new value streams across the electrification chain.</p>",
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"sessionDescription": "<p>Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from concept to deployment across the energy sector – from optimising LNG trading and power plant operations, to enabling predictive maintenance, grid flexibility, demand response, and carbon tracking. In Japan, where digitalisation is central to the Seventh Strategic Energy Plan, AI offers a pathway to improve demand forecasting, integrate renewables, support EV adoption, enhance demand-side management, and reduce system costs. Globally, AI is already being applied in commodity trading, asset optimisation, and customer platforms, creating opportunities for both incumbents and innovators. But challenges remain: data sharing, cyber resilience, workforce readiness, and regulatory alignment will shape how far and how fast the sector can go. </p>\n<p>How can AI unlock new efficiency gains across power, LNG, and renewables value chains, including demand-side flexibility? What lessons can Japan take from global pioneers in AI-driven grid management, trading, and emissions reduction? What safeguards and governance are needed to ensure AI adoption enhances resilience without creating new vulnerabilities?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Hear how global energy leaders are deploying AI across trading, grids, demand response, and customer platforms – and what it means for Japan’s drive toward a smarter, more resilient, and low-carbon energy system.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: From Vision to Value Chain: Building a Commercial CCUS Ecosystem for Japan and Southeast Asia",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan is entering a decisive phase in its carbon management strategy, launching its first full-chain CCUS projects with leadership from the Ministry of Environment, JAPEX, and JOGMEC. These efforts – focused on industrial clusters, CO₂ shipping, and bilateral storage agreements – are laying the foundation for a viable domestic and regional carbon value chain. At the same time, Southeast Asia is emerging as a key partner in Japan’s regional strategy, with CCUS hubs in Singapore, Sarawak, and West Java offering storage access and investment opportunities. </p>\n<p>How can Japan align regulation, infrastructure, and public-private financing to unlock scale? What lessons from global pioneers can help accelerate deployment? And how can Japan and ASEAN jointly develop the standards, shipping routes, and partnerships to create a bankable regional CCUS ecosystem?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain a strategic perspective on how the Asia-Pacific can develop an interconnected CCUS market – linking projects, infrastructure, and standards to drive large-scale deployment and new commercial opportunities.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Japan’s Carbon Market Evolution: Delivering Compliance by 2026",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s Green Transformation Emissions Trading System (GX-ETS) is entering a decisive phase, shifting from a voluntary framework to mandatory participation in 2026. This transition will bring hundreds of major emitters into compliance, requiring robust MRV systems, regulatory oversight, and new market infrastructure to support effective emissions trading. For companies, the shift means embedding carbon costs into strategy, investing in emissions reduction pathways, and engaging actively with policymakers to shape workable rules. The question now is whether GX-ETS can deliver both compliance and competitiveness, while aligning with Japan’s wider decarbonisation and industrial policies. </p>\n<p>How is GX-ETS changing corporate behaviour and investment decisions as it moves to compliance? What challenges and opportunities arise for businesses, investors, and regulators in building a credible, liquid carbon market? How will the compliance system integrate with Japan’s broader climate and industrial strategies on the path to net zero?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain clarity on Japan’s transition to a compliance-driven carbon market – and what businesses must do now to prepare for 2026 and beyond.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Southeast Asia’s LNG Growth Frontier: Infrastructure, Access, and New Demand Hubs",
"sessionDescription": "<p>A surge of LNG demand is emerging across Southeast Asia, driven by new regas terminals, FSRUs, small-scale LNG hubs, and gas-to-power developments from Vietnam to the Philippines. With significant new global supply coming online, the region is poised to become a vital frontier for demand creation, infrastructure investment, and regional LNG trade. Key markets are advancing ambitious plans to reform markets, diversify supply, and attract investment, creating new opportunities for regional and international players. </p>\n<p>Which Southeast Asian markets are setting the pace? How are buyers and investors adapting to shifting supply dynamics and pricing structures? What partnerships will accelerate project delivery and long-term growth?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Southeast Asia is unlocking new LNG demand through infrastructure investment, flexible delivery models, and regional collaboration.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Decarbonising LNG at Scale: The Economics, Timelines, and Market Impact",
"sessionDescription": "<p>LNG remains a cornerstone of Asia’s energy security and competitiveness – but its long-term credibility depends on accelerating emissions reductions across its value chain. From upstream methane abatement and CCUS at liquefaction plants to cleaner shipping and emissions-transparent trading, the industry is rethinking its operations to meet tightening climate targets. Technologies, policies, and market mechanisms are emerging to drive down lifecycle CO₂ and methane emissions, while also positioning LNG infrastructure for future roles in hydrogen, ammonia, and CO₂ transport. </p>\n<p>How far and fast can these reductions go in the next decade? Which investments deliver the greatest emissions impact per dollar spent? How can industry and governments collaborate to set, measure, and enforce credible standards that withstand global scrutiny?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain clarity on the pace, scale, and economics of cutting LNG’s carbon footprint – and the strategies shaping its place in tomorrow’s clean energy mix.</p>",
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"sessionDescription": "<p>Asia’s energy sector is entering a period of generational change – and women are increasingly at the forefront of diplomacy, investment, innovation and regulation. This high-profile dialogue brings together accomplished women from government, industry and finance to discuss not just representation, but responsibility. </p>\n<p>How are they navigating complexity, shaping outcomes, and defining what leadership looks like in a time of transition? What’s changing about how women lead in energy – and what impact is it having? Where is gender equity intersected with national and corporate energy strategy? What advice would today’s leaders offer to those just starting their energy journey?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain inspiration and insight from the women influencing Asia’s energy path – and what their stories reveal about leadership, resilience and opportunity in 2026 and beyond.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Nuclear Innovation: The Role of SMRs, Public Trust and Energy Security",
"sessionDescription": "<div class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW16718420 BCX8\">\n<p>Japan’s nuclear sector is entering a new phase, with plans for restarts and advanced reactor development. Small modular reactors (SMRs), next-gen safety features, and integration with clean hydrogen offer renewed relevance. But public trust, cost certainty and international cooperation remain barriers to progress. Japan’s strategy must reconcile innovation with transparency and resilience. </p>\n<p>How are SMRs and next-gen designs reshaping Japan’s nuclear roadmap? What policy and engagement strategies are rebuilding public and investor trust? How can Japan position nuclear as part of a resilient, diversified clean energy mix?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain insights into how innovation, safety and public support are redefining nuclear’s contribution to Japan’s energy and climate goals.</p>\n</div>",
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"sessionDescription": "<p>Energy-intensive industries and digital platforms are becoming the new drivers of transition. Steel, cement, and chemical companies are under pressure from CBAM and ESG investors, while data centres and transport are creating unprecedented new loads. Japan’s end-users are not just consumers but co-investors – signing PPAs, piloting hydrogen and ammonia, and building closed-loop systems for decarbonisation. Their choices will determine how fast new technologies scale, how financing models evolve, and how competitiveness is defined. </p>\n<p>How are Japan’s energy-intensive industries preparing for carbon costs and trade-linked climate policies? What role are digital and tech companies playing in stimulating new clean energy projects? How can policy, finance, and partnerships accelerate demand-driven decarbonisation?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Discover how industrial and digital end-users are becoming pivotal to Japan’s GX – driving demand for clean fuels, renewables, and financing models that will anchor system-wide transition.</p>",
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"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan remains the world’s largest LNG importer, but its trading dynamics are being reshaped by the surge of new supply from the US, Canada, and Qatar. These projects, combined with Japan’s position as a price-sensitive anchor market, are fostering deeper liquidity and new derivative products. At the same time, advancements in digital platforms, market intelligence, and emissions-tracking tools are creating more transparent, flexible trading environments. As Japanese buyers rebalance their portfolios, the opportunity lies not just in securing volumes, but in shaping the next phase of LNG price discovery and risk management in Asia. </p>\n<p>How will new supply from North America and the Middle East reshape Japan’s trading strategies and contract structures? What role can Japanese players take in driving the development of new benchmarks, derivatives, and carbon-linked LNG products? How can technology, data, and market intelligence tools enhance liquidity, transparency, and emissions tracking in LNG trading?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Japan’s LNG buyers and traders are leveraging new supply sources and digital tools to expand derivatives, deepen market liquidity, and position Tokyo as a key hub in global LNG trading.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Reinventing Refineries: Integration, Efficiency and Decarbonisation",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s refining and petrochemical sector faces a turning point. Declining domestic fuel demand, tighter emissions expectations, and rising global competition are forcing downstream players to rethink their role in the energy system. Rather than divest or downsize, Japan’s refiners are exploring integration with petrochemicals, efficiency upgrades, clean hydrogen, e-fuels, and circular economy solutions. The challenge – and opportunity – is to transition from commodity fuel producers to value-added industrial platforms aligned with new energy demands. </p>\n<p>How are Japan’s leading refiners adapting their portfolios to balance profitability and decarbonisation? What new revenue streams – from SAF to chemical recycling – can enhance resilience? How can refineries become anchors for regional clean energy ecosystems and innovation zones?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong> </p>\n<p>Learn how Japan’s downstream players are evolving from traditional fuel producers to integrated, future-ready industrial hubs – blending competitiveness with climate alignment.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Clean Fuels in Shipping: From LNG Carriers to Next-Generation Fleets",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Global shipping is under growing pressure from the IMO and markets to decarbonise, and Japan is positioning itself as a leader in the transition. With LNG carriers forming the backbone of today’s fleet, the industry now faces hard choices: whether to double down on LNG as a transition fuel or move early into ammonia, e-methanol, and other clean alternatives. Japan is investing in ammonia-ready engines, bunkering hubs, and pilot corridors with Asia-Pacific partners – but questions remain around deployment timelines, costs, and commercial risk. </p>\n<p>How are shipowners balancing LNG’s role as a bridge fuel with investment in new clean-fuel vessels? Which alliances, ports, and corridors will drive early adoption of ammonia and e-methanol? What role can Japanese buyers, ports, and technology providers play in accelerating commercial rollout?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Japan’s clean fuel strategy is influencing LNG shipping decisions today – and shaping the design of the next generation of global fleets.</p>",
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"sessionDescription": "<p>Clean ammonia is moving from concept to commercial reality, with Japan positioned as a central demand hub in the emerging global market. Falling production costs, the rise of export hubs in the U.S., Middle East, Australia, and China, and the scaling of maritime and industrial use are reshaping trade flows. To secure supply at scale, Japan must connect to these global markets through long-term offtake, investment in storage and bunkering, and coordinated infrastructure development. Certification, pricing models, and predictable demand signals will be critical to anchor confidence for producers and buyers alike. </p>\n<p>What role will global supply partnerships play in ensuring Japan’s energy security and industrial decarbonisation? How will cost trends and certification frameworks influence procurement and market formation? What infrastructure priorities – from import terminals to bunkering and storage – are needed to build a resilient, internationally connected ammonia supply chain?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain perspective on how Japan is linking into the global ammonia market – securing supply, scaling storage and bunkering, and forging partnerships that will underpin future trade and industrial decarbonisation.</p>",
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"sessionDescription": "<p>From Tokyo rooftops to offshore farms, Japan is accelerating renewable growth across multiple scales. Rooftop solar and distributed projects are creating opportunities to aggregate capacity and cut urban emissions, while offshore and onshore wind are critical to expanding the country’s clean energy base and industrial competitiveness. Yet deployment alone is not enough – renewables must be fully commercialised through market design, revenue certainty, and financing structures that attract sustained investment. Success will depend on rapid permitting, digital aggregation, grid interconnection, and robust supply chains, but also on clear pathways to monetise output through PPAs, green certificates, and export opportunities. </p>\n<p>How can Japan capture cost efficiencies while commercialising renewables across rooftop, onshore, and offshore projects? What investment, financing, and regulatory levers are most effective in turning capacity growth into bankable, long-term markets? How can digital tools, aggregation models, and corporate demand accelerate the commercial uptake of renewables?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Japan can scale renewables at every level – while ensuring deployment translates into commercially viable, investment-ready markets that support competitiveness and long-term resilience.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Drop-In, Scale Up: Biofuels, SAF and e-Methane for Asia’s Industrial Future",
"sessionDescription": "<p>As Asia’s demand for transport and industrial energy rises, drop-in fuels such as biofuels, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and synthetic e-methane are emerging as critical tools for real-world decarbonisation. Across the region, producers, policymakers, and end-users are advancing partnerships, certification standards, and integration of low-carbon molecules into hard-to-electrify sectors. The challenge now is scaling supply chains, securing feedstocks, and ensuring cost competitiveness to meet growing demand. With falling technology costs and rising international interest, these fuels could form the backbone of a resilient, export-ready, and flexible energy future. </p>\n<p>How can adoption be accelerated while building regional production and distribution networks? What role can public policy and trade diplomacy play in securing feedstock, pricing incentives, and infrastructure investment? Can Asia establish a competitive, scalable low-carbon fuels ecosystem that supports both energy security and industrial growth?</p>\n<p>Attendee Insights: </p>\n<p>Learn how cross-border collaboration, investment, and policy innovation are turning drop-in fuels into scalable solutions for Asia’s industrial and transport decarbonisation.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Powering Intelligence: Securing Affordable Clean Energy for AI Growth in Asia",
"sessionDescription": "<p>AI is becoming one of the world’s fastest-growing energy consumers, fuelled by hyperscale data centres, cloud services, and advanced computing. For Japan and Asia, this creates an urgent challenge: ensuring abundant, reliable, and low-carbon electricity to support digital growth without undermining decarbonisation goals – and without imposing unsustainable costs on consumers and industry. Delivering this balance will require new long-term PPAs, accelerated grid upgrades, flexible LNG and nuclear backstops, and regional cooperation on renewables and interconnections. It also raises difficult questions of pricing and prioritisation: should energy for AI and digital infrastructure be priced differently to reflect its strategic value, or managed to avoid crowding out other critical sectors? </p>\n<p>How can Japan and Asia balance surging AI electricity needs with climate, security, and affordability commitments? What financing and policy frameworks can lower the cost of clean power projects and grid reinforcements at the pace AI requires? Should energy be priced or prioritised differently for AI and digital services, and what are the risks of such an approach? How can partnerships across technology, energy, and government unlock innovative, cost-effective models for powering the next era of digital intelligence?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain insight into how Asia can deliver abundant, low-cost, and low-carbon power for AI – ensuring digital growth is built on a foundation of resilience, competitiveness, and sustainability.</p>",
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"Title": "SPOTLIGHT FIRESIDE CHAT: Regional Leadership in Japan’s GX Transition: From Wind to Semiconductors",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Japan’s regional governments are stepping into the spotlight as critical enablers of the Green Transformation (GX), shaping local projects that have national and global significance. In Hokkaido, large-scale wind and renewable development is positioning the island as a future powerhouse for clean energy. Sapporo is emerging as a green hub, aligning city-level strategy with investment in low-carbon infrastructure and technology. In Kyushu, AI, semiconductor, and data centre projects are creating an energy-intensive innovation cluster that will demand new models of power procurement, efficiency, and resilience. </p>\n<p>How are regional governments in Japan creating the policy and infrastructure conditions for GX success? What role can private companies play in scaling projects that balance local priorities with national strategy? How can lessons from Hokkaido, Sapporo, and Kyushu be replicated or adapted in other regions to drive economic and energy transformation?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Gain unique perspective on how local government leaders and corporate partners are shaping GX delivery on the ground – from renewables in Hokkaido to digital and industrial hubs in Kyushu.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Batteries and Geopolitics: Securing Storage for Energy Security and Flexibility",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Energy storage has become a critical enabler of renewable integration, grid flexibility, and peak demand management – but it is also emerging as a strategic vulnerability. As countries accelerate solar, wind, and electrification, battery deployment is increasingly shaped by geopolitical realities: critical mineral supply risks, concentrated manufacturing in a few countries, and tightening export controls on key technologies. In Japan, the Long-Term Decarbonization Power Source Auction (LTDA) is playing a pivotal role in creating stability and bankability for battery energy storage systems (BESS), providing long-term revenue visibility and helping integrate storage into national and regional power markets. This model demonstrates how policy and market design can underpin commercial confidence while supporting resilience at grid level. Building a robust storage ecosystem will require not only technical innovation, but also coordinated industrial policy, system-level planning, and strong international partnerships. </p>\n<p>Which storage technologies are most commercially viable for different power systems and geographies? How are governments, LTDAs, and companies addressing geopolitical risk in battery supply chains? What policy tools and investment strategies can accelerate deployment while strengthening resilience and regional collaboration?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how storage – supported by Japan’s LTDA framework – can be scaled to balance renewables, enhance grid reliability, and safeguard energy security in an era of geopolitical competition.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Powering a Connected Asia: Market Reform, Grid Integration and Japan’s Regional Role",
"sessionDescription": "<p>As electricity demand rises and systems decarbonise, market reform is no longer just a domestic agenda – it’s a regional imperative. Japan’s experience with liberalisation, flexibility markets, and unbundling offers a critical reference point for neighbouring economies seeking to modernise their power sectors. At the same time, greater regional grid integration – from HVDC links to shared flexibility services – offers huge potential to enhance energy security, reduce costs, and support variable renewables. But policy alignment, regulatory interoperability, and investment incentives remain uneven. </p>\n<p>How can Japan help shape a connected, competitive power market across Asia? What lessons can be drawn from Japan’s deregulation and balancing reforms? And what new coordination models could enable cross-border trade and system resilience across the region?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Japan’s market evolution and regional leadership can accelerate power sector integration, flexibility, and investment across Asia.</p>",
"startTime": "14:00",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: The Future of Power Generation: Balancing LNG, Thermal, and Renewables for System Resilience",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Asia sits at the heart of the global energy transition, accounting for nearly half of global emissions and energy demand. The region’s challenge is acute: phasing down coal, which drives more than 90% of Asia’s power sector emissions, while meeting fast-rising electricity needs from electrification, industry, and AI-driven growth. Renewables will lead the shift, but gas and flexible thermal remain vital to enable coal-to-clean transitions and ensure system stability. Advances in storage, digital grids, and regional interconnections will redefine capacity deployment, but approaches must reflect each nation’s starting point and priorities. The task is not just to meet demand, but to build abundant, resilient power systems that reduce emissions and position energy as a driver of competitiveness. </p>\n<p>How can investment and regulation accelerate coal phase-out while maintaining reliability and affordability? What models can unlock export-ready clean power and scale renewables alongside LNG? How can diverse national strategies add up to meaningful emissions reductions across Asia?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how Asia can balance renewables, LNG, and thermal power to deliver resilience, affordability, and emissions reduction – securing energy abundance as a foundation for economic growth.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Financing the Energy Transformation: Unlocking Capital for Asia’s Projects",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Rising costs, policy uncertainty, and geopolitical fragmentation are reshaping how energy projects are financed and delivered across Asia. For developers and project owners, securing capital has become more complex just as the need for large-scale investment intensifies – across clean fuels, CCUS, grid upgrades, and industrial decarbonisation. Japan’s public and private finance ecosystems must now work together to de-risk investment, mobilise blended capital, and structure financing mechanisms that support commercial-scale deployment. </p>\n<p>How can developers tap into evolving instruments like transition bonds, export credits, and sovereign guarantees? What approaches are proving most effective in managing risk across borders and technologies? How can Japan’s financing institutions help unlock momentum for regional energy transition delivery?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Gain practical insight into how developers can navigate rising costs and complex risk to structure viable, bankable projects across Asia’s evolving energy landscape.</p>",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Securing the Foundations: Critical Minerals for the Energy Transition",
"sessionDescription": "<p>From copper and lithium to rare earth elements, critical minerals underpin every pillar of the energy transition – from batteries and wind turbines to grid infrastructure and EVs. Yet supply chains remain concentrated, geopolitically exposed, and environmentally contentious. Global competition for these resources is intensifying as demand projections soar, while permitting delays, ESG scrutiny, and export controls threaten availability. The challenge now is to secure reliable, diversified supply chains that balance cost, sustainability, and national security. </p>\n<p>How can governments and companies collaborate to diversify sources and invest in refining and processing capacity? Which trade, tariff, and stockpiling strategies will mitigate supply shocks? How can recycling and circular economy approaches reduce long-term dependency on virgin extraction?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights: </strong></p>\n<p>Understand how critical mineral supply chains are evolving – and the strategies needed to secure access, manage risk, and enable large-scale deployment of clean energy technologies.</p>",
"startTime": "16:40",
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"Title": "LEADERSHIP PANEL: Carbon Tariffs and Trade: Competing in a Global Market",
"sessionDescription": "<p>Beyond Japan’s domestic system, carbon policy is becoming a decisive factor in global trade. From the EU’s CBAM to U.S. carbon tariffs and evolving schemes across Asia, emissions data and product standards are now determining market access and industrial competitiveness. China’s national ETS, Korea’s established carbon market, and India’s pilot trading system highlight the speed of change in Asia – raising questions about how regional policies will interact and converge. For Japan’s exporters, aligning with these frameworks is as critical as preparing for GX-ETS at home. The challenge is not only compliance, but also shaping international standards, negotiating market rules, and positioning Japan within the future of East Asia’s carbon pricing landscape. </p>\n<p>How are ETS systems evolving across Asia, Europe, and the U.S., and what lessons can Japan draw from them? How can Japan’s GX-ETS fit into the broader global and regional context to protect competitiveness and market access? What role will East Asia play in shaping the future of carbon pricing, standards, and trade-linked climate policy?</p>\n<p><strong>Attendee Insights:</strong></p>\n<p>Understand how global and regional carbon regulations are reshaping competitiveness – and how Japan can position its industries within the next phase of international and East Asian carbon markets.</p>",
"startTime": "15:20",
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"Title": "CHAIR'S CLOSING REMARKS",
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"startTime": "17:20",
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