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Climate Policy Climate Change Policies in Asia in the Context of International Climate Regime The mission of the Climate Policy Project is to evaluate and recommend pragmatic climate policies for sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region in an era of evolving global climate regime. | Outline | Activities | Publications & Report | JAPANESE | What's New?     IGES-TERI Asia Pacific Policy Dialogue on Sustainable Low-Carbon Development in Asia: Prospects for a Successful Future Climate Regime (22-23 October 2009, New Delhi, India) Activity Report: Network Meeting: A Co-benefits Network for Asia and the Pacific (3 October 2009, Bangkok, Thailand) Activity Report: IGES-ERI Policy Dialogue in Beijing on the Post-2012 Climate Regime: Towards a Sustainable, Low-Carbon Asia (22, 23 September 2009, Beijing, China) Outline The project comprises four main components with the different sub-components listed below: Adaptation Policies for facilitating community-based and national level adaptation in the most vulnerable sectors, such as agriculture and water management, using case studies from Bangladesh and Viet Nam, and identification of quantitative or semi-quantitative indicators of effectiveness of adaptation actions Post-2012 climate regime Design of an inclusive framework for the future climate regime with three sub-components including (a) identification of ways for effective participation of major Asian developing countries in the future regime, (b) analysis of the role of Asian businesses and the current non-Kyoto Annex I Parties in the future climate regime, (c) functioning as the Secretariat of the MoEJ Working Group on the future climate regime Co-benefits Assessment of co-benefits as an approach to mainstream climate concerns in sector development especially in transportation, agriculture, and waste management, with emphasis on energy use and conservation measures Market mechanisms Promotion of CDM projects in selected Asian countries and JI/GIS projects in EIT countries through effective capacity strengthening, and analysis of policies for enhancing sustainable development benefits from those mechanisms in selected projects. >> See the IGES Market Mechanism Project website Contact IGES Climate Policy Project 2108-11 Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0115 Japan Tel: +81-46-855-3810 / Fax: +81-46-855-3809 / E-mail us Project members Project leaflet (PDF, 662KB) | HOME | About this site | Copyright | Privacy policy | Sitemap | Contact |