Environmental Risk Mitigation

Barbara Weiss is an analyst at the St. Petersburg Institute of International Political Economy, USA. She has a Master’s degree in International Business Studies from the University of South Carolina, USA. She is a graduate of the International Political Economy Ph.D. program, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her research interests are market structure and competition and risk analysis. She speaks three languages and has lived in Northeast Asia and Europe, as well as in Canada and the US.Michiyo Obi is Professor of Faculty of Policy Studies at Nanzan University, Japan. She is a graduate of the International Political Economy Ph.D. program, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Her research interests include the global governance of climate change based on the theory of social constructivism, focusing on policy ideas, recognition, and norms.

• Introduction.- Environmental risk and sustainability.- Economic growth and environmental performance.- Decarbonization and clean energy technologies (CETs).- Clean energy technology (CET) – RE & B|ESST – policies.- Clean energy technology (CET) funding – Investment and investment financing.- Coaxing a market – B|ESST frontier development and application trajectory.- The environmental-societal-economic sustainability interface of the green economy.- Conclusion.