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One year has passed since the Kyoto Protocol
entered into force. At the Montreal Conference on Climate
Change (COP/MOP1 and COP11) held from 28 November to 10
December 2005, delegates to the UNFCCC adopted the ground
rules for the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and
reached an agreement on the start of a substantive process
on actions to be taken beyond 2012, when the first commitment
period of the Kyoto Protocol expires. Concrete measures
by all stakeholders to address global warming are now
expected.
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Asia-Pacific
Consultations on Climate Regime Beyond 2012
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Over
the last year IGES has conducted a series of stakeholder
consultations focussing on the climate regime beyond
2012 in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Republic
of Korea and Viet Nam, and also at the regional
level with cooperation from several organisations
across the Asia-Pacific.
The aim of these consultations, which included national
dialogues, questionnaire surveys, interviews with
key informants and literature surveys was to ascertain
the concerns, interests and priorities of various
countries in relation to the future climate regime....
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The
Montreal Conference on Climate Change: A Brief
Summary
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A comprehensive report on the UNFCCC
COP11 and COP/MOP1 which were held in Montreal,
Canada, from 28 November to 9 December 2005.
UNFCCC COP11 and COP/MOP1 were held in Montreal,
Canada, from 28 November to 9 December 2005 with
the aim of meeting three challenges - Implementation,
Improvement and Innovation - set out by Mr. Stephen
Dion, the COP11 President and Minister for Environment
of Canada. The "implementation" referred to the
adoption of the Marrakesh Accords for making the
Kyoto Protocol operational, the "improvement" was
targeted to build up both the Convention and the
Protocol in the near term and the "innovation" challenge
referred to the start of a substantive process on
actions to be taken beyond 2012, when the first
commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol expires....
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CDM updates
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IGES
has supported CDM capacity building in a step-by-step
approach through various workshops and training
for both the government and private sector in the
host countries in the Asia-Pacific region. In March
2006, IGES will hold a workshop in Bangkok in the
cooperation with the UNDP as a first joint initiative
under the agreement upon the establishment of a
strategic partnership to foster collaboration with
the aim of realising sustainable development in
the Asia-Pacific region, which was agreed on 20
January 2006.
More
details of the IGES CDM programme activities |
CDM
country guide
A series of manuals for
the CDM project development for Cambodia,
China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines
and Thailand. These guidebooks aim to
facilitate the CDM project developments
in Asia by providing necessary information
to both the project developers and the
potential investors. |
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CDM/JI
in CHARTS
(January 2006 updated)
A booklet with a good
reputation for providing a plain and
easy-to-understand description of the
CDM and other Kyoto mechanisms, reflecting
the results of the UNFCCC COP/MOP1 in
a timely manner.
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(Those
books are published by IGES as part of the Integrated
Capacity Strengthening for the CDM/JI (ICS-CDM/JI)
Programme under the Ministry of the Environment,
Japan)
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More IGES materials on Climate issues |
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Future Climate Regime beyond 2012 |
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[report]Asian
Perspectives on Climate Regime Beyond 2012:
Concerns, Interests and Priorities
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[report]The
Future Climate Regime: Using the Scenario
Planning Approach to Develop Options
/ IGES and NIES,
Nov. 2005 |
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[paper]Climate
Change and the Credibility of International
Commitments: What is Necessary for the U.S.
to Deliver on Such Commitments? [IGES-CP
Working Paper 2004-007] / Kentaro TAMURA,
March 2005 |
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[comments]Analysis:
Beyond Kyoto Regime
[for IGES Newsletter] / Kentaro TAMURA, Feb.
2005 |
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[presentation]Post
2012 Climate Regime: Where Do We Go Next?
[UNU-IAS Round Table on Climate Change, Yokohama,
15 March 2005] / ANCHA Srinivasan, March 2005
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[presentation]Developing
Countries' Perspectives on Setting Long Term
Emission Reduction Targets
[NIES . TITech . IGES Open Symposium Low Carbon
Society Scenario Toward 2050 Tokyo, 24 March
2005] / ANCHA Srinivasan, March 2005
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[presentation]How
to Link Japanese ETS with others?
[Presentation
for US-Japan Workshop on Local Initiatives
March 28, 2005, New York] / Hitomi KIMURA,
March 2005 |
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