The first Japan-Mongolia Joint Committee concerning the Joint Crediting Mechanism was held in Ulaanbaatar on April 11, 2013.

Japan and Mongolia are to launch full operation of the JCM. In the committee, both sides adopted basic rules, guidelines, and other directions concerning the JCM.

People involved from the Ministry of Environment and Green Development, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economic Development and others from the Mongolia side, and those from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) and others from the Japan side, attended the committee.

The committee was held based on the bilateral document that was signed on January 8, 2013, by Mr. Takenori Shimizu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Mongolia, and Ms. Sanjaasuren Oyun, Minister for Environment and Green Development of Mongolia, and is the first partnership of the signing of a JCM for Japan.

Japan will contribute to international efforts to prevent global warming by facilitating the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in Mongolia through full operation of the JCM.