McCarthy plans travel to Japan
August 20, 2015 |05:56 PM
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy will travel to Japan next week to advance environmental bilateral cooperation between the U.S. government and the government of Japan.
The trip, which is scheduled to begin Sunday and end on Saturday, “builds on outcomes agreed to during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state visit to the U.S. in April 2015,” EPA said in a news release.
“EPA’s bilateral relationship with Japan is rooted in a 40-year history of cooperation on environmental issues that dates back to an Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection between the U.S. and Japan in 1975,” the agency said.
While in Tokyo on Monday, McCarthy will participate in a high-level dialogue with the ministry of the environment of Japan, meet with international business leaders, and host a tea with female environmental leaders.
McCarthy will then travel to Minamata on Tuesday to highlight U.S. and Japanese cooperation on preventing mercury pollution and bring attention to the implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, a global treaty signed in 2013 to protect human health and the environment.
She will then travel to Kitakyushu to meet with the women who started a successful movement to improve air quality 50 years ago with a documentary called “We Want Our Blue Skies Back.” McCarthy will also tour the city’s cleanup and green growth efforts along Dokai Bay.
On Wednesday, McCarthy will make her first international remarks on the need for global action on climate change at the American Center Japan in Tokyo.
Thursday, McCarthy will visit Fukushima Prefecture to discuss decontamination and environmental management efforts following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear event. She will meet with the governor, as well as students, parents and teachers at Futaba Mirai Gakuen High School.
EPA has been a partner of Japan’s in recovery since the devastating East Japan earthquake in 2011.
On Friday, McCarthy will join a roundtable with business leaders in Tokyo on the need for climate action, and continue the conversation with members of the National Diet and with students at Tokyo’s Tsubasa Sogo High School.
The trip, which is scheduled to begin Sunday and end on Saturday, “builds on outcomes agreed to during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state visit to the U.S. in April 2015,” EPA said in a news release.
“EPA’s bilateral relationship with Japan is rooted in a 40-year history of cooperation on environmental issues that dates back to an Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection between the U.S. and Japan in 1975,” the agency said.
While in Tokyo on Monday, McCarthy will participate in a high-level dialogue with the ministry of the environment of Japan, meet with international business leaders, and host a tea with female environmental leaders.
McCarthy will then travel to Minamata on Tuesday to highlight U.S. and Japanese cooperation on preventing mercury pollution and bring attention to the implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, a global treaty signed in 2013 to protect human health and the environment.
She will then travel to Kitakyushu to meet with the women who started a successful movement to improve air quality 50 years ago with a documentary called “We Want Our Blue Skies Back.” McCarthy will also tour the city’s cleanup and green growth efforts along Dokai Bay.
On Wednesday, McCarthy will make her first international remarks on the need for global action on climate change at the American Center Japan in Tokyo.
Thursday, McCarthy will visit Fukushima Prefecture to discuss decontamination and environmental management efforts following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear event. She will meet with the governor, as well as students, parents and teachers at Futaba Mirai Gakuen High School.
EPA has been a partner of Japan’s in recovery since the devastating East Japan earthquake in 2011.
On Friday, McCarthy will join a roundtable with business leaders in Tokyo on the need for climate action, and continue the conversation with members of the National Diet and with students at Tokyo’s Tsubasa Sogo High School.
