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Remarks: IGES supported drafting the chairmans summary.

Currently economic integration in East Asia is accelerating along with a political movement towards the creating of an East Asia Community. Regional economic integration could promote sustainability through generating higher incomes and facilitating clean technology transfer on one hand, but equally it could cause natural resource degradation and...

IGES attended an international workshop on Trade in Wood Products in South-East Asia in Kuala Lumpur from 24-25 May. The workshop was organised within the Trans-Regional EU-ASEAN Trade Initiative (TREATI) framework, designed to enhance trade relations between ASEAN and the EU. On behalf of the Directorate General Trade of the European Commission...

Featured article: IGES Activities at the 4th World Water Forum (WWF4) Report: Senior Officials Meeting on the 3R Initiative and Future Prospects / Japan - US Cooperation: To Achieve Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction and its Ancillary Benefits / Discussing Options for Encouraging Asia to Participate in the Future Climate Regime / Enhancing the...

On 19 and 20 January 2006, an Illegal Logging Update and Stakeholder Consultation Meeting took place at Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. As the seventh in a regular series of biannual consultations, this meeting provided a valuable opportunity to gather up-to-date information on the illegal logging and timber trade...

Remarks: Presentation given at the Resources Saving Society and Green Growth, May 24-25, 2006, Beijing, China

While waste generation is still on the rise in many countries, some of them have succeeded in reversing the increase in waste generation and raising the recycling ratio by identifying the convergence of economic and environmental benefits. Wastes range widely from country to country and span the entire spectrum from containers and pakages...

In order to achieve sustainable society, it is necessary to transform industrial structure to the one that does not reduce the Earth's resources. Under this circumstance, a business model of "not selling goods, but selling services" has been expected as a measure of co-existence of business and the environment. This idea, which is called as...