DR. TATSUYA HANAOKA

Dr. Hanaoka is the head of Global Sustainability Integrated Assessment Section at Social System Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Japan. He received his Ph.D at the University of Tokyo and joined NIES in 2004. He has been a member of the Asia-Pacific Integrate Assessment Modeling (AIM) team and has been responsible for developing multi-sectoral & multi-regional global Integrated Assessment Model (IAM), and also multi-sectoral and multi-provincial country IAM in Asian countries. He has experience in analyses of emissions scenarios in the short- to mid-term (up to 2060) both in national and global multi-regions, covering multi-GHGs, short-lived climate forcers, air pollutants, ozone-depleting substances, and mercury. 

He has participated in various national and international activities: for example, a member of IPCC Task Force on National GHG Inventories Editorial Board (from 2013 to 2020), a contributing author of UNEP the Emission Gap report (from 2010 to 2015), a co-author of UNEP/WMO 2018 Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion, a contributing author of IPCC AR4, WG3, a committee member in GHG emissions calculation method in the Japan’s National Inventory, and so on. He has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Panel, UNEP Climate, and Clean Air Coalition since 2021 and an adjunct research fellow at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, United Nations University since 2024.