Dr. Mikiko Kainuma is a senior research advisor of Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), an Honorary Research Fellow of National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and a Secretary General of Leveraging a Carbon Neutral Society Strategic Research Network (LCS-RNet). Since 1990, she has developed the Asia-Pacific Integrated Model (AIM), which assesses policy options for stabilizing the global climate, particularly in the Asian-Pacific region with researchers at NIES, Kyoto University and several institutes in Asia.