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Key messages: 1. Technological absorptive capacity (consisting of the factors of general governance and business climate, basic technological literacy, access to finance, and technologically proactive policies) is the key determinant of successful technology transfer. Access to finance is one necessary but insufficient condition for technology...

The progress in the adoption of market mechanisms for climate change is overall laggard in Japan and the related study on business policy perspective is limited. Aiming to close the research gap, this paper measures Japanese company’s awareness and approval of market-based instruments for energy saving, including financial subsidies, carbon taxes...

Since the 2000s, an increasing number of initiatives have been undertaken in the attempt to measure the physical quantities or the monetary values of ecosystem services. However, concrete methodologies for the quantification of ecosystem services are still to be developed; even the governmental, corporate and academic initiatives for the...

日中韓の3カ国の炭素価格制度の実施可能性を、エネルギー消費の多い企業を対象とした研究調査をもとに議論しています。炭素価格の引き上げが省エネ技術の導入を加速化させ、企業が一定水準の価格を受け入れることを明らかにし、各国への具体的な政策提言を示しています。 Remarks: English version: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=5260

This study evaluated the effects of image pansharpening on Vegetation Indices (VIs) in an agricultural area of Thailand, and found that pansharpening was able to downscale single-date and multi-temporal VI data without introducing significant distortions. The downscaled (15m resolution) VI values can be used for estimating above-ground biomass...

Transportation sector and automobile industry in Japan have been playing important roles to help address national energy constrains and global change issues such as climate change and promote technology development and enhance international competitiveness. Japan’s involvement in the market of the next-generation vehicles, in particular electric...

The goal of this research is to develop a method for quantitative and objective assessment of the effect of satellite Earth observations on environmental policy. For this purpose, as an initial case study, the protection of the ozone layer is taken up to analyze the different phases and processes where satellite observations might have had an...

This paper presents a survey study to companies in China and Korea for understanding their opinions to financial subsidy policies for industrial energy saving. The survey in China was conducted during August 2012 to January 2013 and 201 respondents were confirmed to be valid. The survey to Korean companies was carried out during December 2012 to...