DR. FANG-TING CHENG

Dr. Fang-Ting Cheng is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO), which she joined in 2014. She specializes in international relations, global governance, and environmental politics, with a focus on how major powers and regional actors shape international and regional regimes to address global challenges such as climate change and energy transition.

Building on her extensive work in global environmental governance, Dr. Cheng’s current research examines energy, environmental, and industrial policies promoting low-carbon and decarbonized economies in the great Asian region. Her studies cover key policy instruments such as emissions trading systems, carbon taxation, and carbon neutrality strategies, as well as countries’ responses to climate-related disasters. Integrating perspectives from international relations and security studies, she also investigates how states in the Indo-Pacific region navigate the intersection of climate action, economic security, and geopolitical dynamics.

Dr. Cheng holds a B.A. from National Taiwan University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Law (International Relations) from the University of Tokyo. Her major publications include Japanese Environmental Diplomacy since the Kyoto Protocol (Mie University Press, 2013) and The Formation of Complementary Relationships among Overlapping Regimes: Negotiations on Climate Change, U.S.–China Relations, and the Paris Agreement (Gendaitosho, 2017).

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