Increasing weather extremes and unabated climate change, as well as more ambitious climate mitigation goals of countries such as the USA, China, the EU, Japan and Germany, marked the background for the eleventh meeting of the German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) which was held in Berlin in hybrid form on 13-14 September, 2021.

The Council members deliberated on the current situation and agreed on additional studies on decarbonisation of industry, battery systems and long-term scenarios.

The German-Japanese Energy Transition Cooperation Council is an international model project to strengthen knowledge exchange on technologies, policies and the impacts of the energy transition. In its form, continuity and size, the GJETC is the first German-Japanese cooperation project on the energy transition of its kind. Founded in spring 2016, the Council conducts an extensive study programme on core topics of the energy transition, holds stakeholder dialogues with industry and civil society, and has already published six studies, a series of strategic input papers, and two reports with key recommendations for a successful energy transition in March 2018 and June 2020.