Mr. Masanori Kobayashi
Senior Research Fellow at Ocean Policy Research Institute, Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Mr. Masanori Kobayashi undertakes research work on ocean and sustainability policy including marine and coastal resource management, blue economy, ocean governance and fishery policies. He worked on sustainability issues in the Pan Asia Fund and Pacific Island Nations Fund of SPF, the Ocean Policy Research Foundation, the Yokohama National University Graduate School for Environment and Information Science, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, the United Nations (Geneva, Bonn and New York), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan (Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York). He will speak on the topic of renewable marine energy as an example for climate change mitigation based on marine resources.