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Daiju Narita
Daiju Narita is a fourth-year student in the Ph.D. program in Sustainable Development. His research interest is the interrelationship of technology and policy with regard to the global climate change problem. He is currently writing his dissertation about potential economic impacts of the carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technology to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions. In his dissertation research, he is also analyzing the policy making mechanism on CCS, particularly the process of scientific assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
He has a M.Sc. and a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Tokyo, where he studied long-range chemical transport of air pollutants (ozone in particular) over East Asia. After his Master’s study in Japan, he worked in the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science and Technology, where he was involved in national research funding and nuclear safety regulation.