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Vehicle fuel taxes on gasoline and diesel have been introduced in many countries and are generally considered to be a road user fee intended to fund roadway projects and services (Jones and Nix 1995 and Brown 2001, cited in Litman 2003). However, given the fact that fuel consumption is causing environmental degradation, it can be justified to use...

The transport sector provides vital services in urban areas, but at the same time causes serious urban problems. The negative effects of urban transport activities include air pollution, accidents, congestion, noise from road transport, energy consumption, and consumption of land and other natural resources for the production of vehicles and...

In light of the recent argument that rapid economic growth in Russia over the next decade might result in emissions higher than the Kyoto target, thereby putting much needed growth at risk, this paper revisits the discussion on the costs and benefits of ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by Russia. The paper suggests that evens under a very...

This poster series was published for use at the 5th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific held in March 2005 in Seoul, Korea. It was developed to introduce the activities of the Kitakyushu Initiative in the first phase of implemenation (2000-2005).

The 10th Conference of the Parties (COP-10) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The international community has so far established a set of international treaties as an international regime to cope with global climate change: the FCCC and the Kyoto Protocol. The former recognised anthropogenic...

Cities in rapidly industrialising regions of Asia are confronted with multiple tasks for economic development and environmental protection. They tend to give priorities to immediate and local issues, and consider global warming as a far-away issue. The nature of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions from cities is not well understood in Asia. In...