Jackson Ewing
Jackson Ewing holds a joint appointment as a senior fellow at Duke University's Nicholas Institute of Environmental Policy Solutions and an adjunct associate professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy. He works closely with the Duke Kunshan University Environmental Research Center and International Masters of Environmental Policy programs to build policy research collaboration across Duke platforms in the United States and China.
Prior to joining Duke, Ewing was director of Asian Sustainability at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York, where he led projects on Asian carbon market cooperation and sustainable resource development in the ASEAN Economic Community. He previously served as a MacArthur Fellow and head of the Environment, Climate Change and Food Security Program at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and has worked throughout Asia with actors in government, the private sector, civil society, and international organizations.
Ewing publishes widely through a range of mediums and is a regular contributor to radio, television and print media. He holds a doctorate in environmental security and master's degree in international relations from Australia’s Bond University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the College of Charleston.
Prior to joining Duke, Ewing was director of Asian Sustainability at the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York, where he led projects on Asian carbon market cooperation and sustainable resource development in the ASEAN Economic Community. He previously served as a MacArthur Fellow and head of the Environment, Climate Change and Food Security Program at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and has worked throughout Asia with actors in government, the private sector, civil society, and international organizations.
Ewing publishes widely through a range of mediums and is a regular contributor to radio, television and print media. He holds a doctorate in environmental security and master's degree in international relations from Australia’s Bond University, and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the College of Charleston.
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Published in the International Emissions Trading Association’s second edition of the IETA Insights, "The Asian Carbon Century" by Jackson Ewing, Director of Asian Sustainability at the Asia Society Policy Institute, offers thoughts on the carbon market developments and prospects for integration in Asia. Dr. Ewing argues that the most impactful carbon market developments are now occurring in the Asia-Pacific with Northeast Asian countries at the forefront. He emphasizes that while Asian countries are currently focused on domestic progress, there are promising signs of regional interest and formative phases need to yield markets that are flexible and “linkage ready” if the benefits of market connectivity are to take shape.
Such a move would enhance the economic and environmental viability of their various carbon markets in nuanced ways, feeding into international processes while avoiding being constrained by them. It would chart a regional path that speaks to unique Northeast Asian circumstances, while contributing to international climate change responses.
The report proceeds across four primary issue areas:
(1) carbon markets’ place in evolving international responses to climate change; (2) the ways carbon markets can link across political jurisdictions; (3) how China, Japan, and Korea could benefit from linking markets; and (4) the specific steps these countries might take to realize market linkage. It draws from prevailing literature, as well as the findings of the High Level Roundtable, “Toward a Northeast Asian Carbon Market,” convened by the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) and World Bank Group on the sidelines of the 2016 global Carbon Expo.
Rather than sending the United States and China back to their adversarial positions of the past, Trump’s moves have taken climate change off the bilateral agenda completely. This eliminates a valuable mutual confidence-building measure and sets back global climate change efforts significantly.
In this context, climate change hopefuls can take solace in three countervailing trends.
Published in the International Emissions Trading Association’s second edition of the IETA Insights, "The Asian Carbon Century" by Jackson Ewing, Director of Asian Sustainability at the Asia Society Policy Institute, offers thoughts on the carbon market developments and prospects for integration in Asia. Dr. Ewing argues that the most impactful carbon market developments are now occurring in the Asia-Pacific with Northeast Asian countries at the forefront. He emphasizes that while Asian countries are currently focused on domestic progress, there are promising signs of regional interest and formative phases need to yield markets that are flexible and “linkage ready” if the benefits of market connectivity are to take shape.
Such a move would enhance the economic and environmental viability of their various carbon markets in nuanced ways, feeding into international processes while avoiding being constrained by them. It would chart a regional path that speaks to unique Northeast Asian circumstances, while contributing to international climate change responses.
The report proceeds across four primary issue areas:
(1) carbon markets’ place in evolving international responses to climate change; (2) the ways carbon markets can link across political jurisdictions; (3) how China, Japan, and Korea could benefit from linking markets; and (4) the specific steps these countries might take to realize market linkage. It draws from prevailing literature, as well as the findings of the High Level Roundtable, “Toward a Northeast Asian Carbon Market,” convened by the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) and World Bank Group on the sidelines of the 2016 global Carbon Expo.
Rather than sending the United States and China back to their adversarial positions of the past, Trump’s moves have taken climate change off the bilateral agenda completely. This eliminates a valuable mutual confidence-building measure and sets back global climate change efforts significantly.
In this context, climate change hopefuls can take solace in three countervailing trends.
As global environmental and energy concerns magnify, how can Japan tap into its historically innovative and efficient mindset to meet its goals for a cleaner Earth by 2050? What can Japan learn from Europe, a continent well-established in wind energy, in order to harness the full potential of offshore wind as a possible sustainable solution? What can the rest of the world learn from Japan? How can Japan reinvent solar power to boost its efficiency? And, of course, what does this all mean for the future of nuclear power in Japan? If it should remain a large part of the country’s energy supply, how can it be made safer?
Asia Society New York is proud to present "Japan Rebooted: Climate Change and Energy Innovation", a program that will bring together distinguished experts and policymakers for in-depth analysis, a look at best practices, and to get the latest intelligence on the role of Japanese energy technology in addressing climate change.
Against this backdrop, a new Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) report, Carbon Market Cooperation in Northeast Asia: Assessing Challenges and Overcoming Barriers— which is part of ASPI’s Toward a Northeast Asia Carbon Market initiative — draws on the expertise of a wide range of scholars and practitioners to help equip policymakers and other stakeholders with information and guidance on the potential of and pathway toward carbon market linkage in Northeast Asia.
This volume, released in June 2018, includes 11 chapters that examine the challenges of and approaches to carbon market cooperation and linkage in Northeast Asia. The report begins with four chapters focused on the status of carbon markets in the region, with examinations of how legal and institutional frameworks can facilitate the varying national and local measures employed to strengthen links and yield dividends. Chapters five through seven describe the barriers to linkage, and the uneven impacts — whether positive or negative — of linkage across the region, and also identify opportunities to pursue other forms of non-traditional linkage pathways. The remainder of the volume is organized around the particularities of emissions trading system policies and goals in China and Japan, with the final chapter making the case for the importance of business sector involvement in linkage efforts.