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International climate-control or environmental agreements have substantial impacts on international terms of trade. This would seem to suggest that international environmental coalitions cooperating on climate control could penalize non-cooperating countries through trade sanctions. However, alternative approaches exist in which cooperating nations...

Japan and Russia share interests in energy and climate, but currently cooperation between these neighboring countries is small. The Russian Far East seems like a logical ground for cooperation due to its proximity to Japan; however, it is difficult to establish whether this part of Russia could have a special role in Japanese plans. The lack of...

Urban planners and elected officials are often under pressure to utilize scarce financial and human resources on selective environmental regeneration programs. Prioritizing such investments is not best based on the guesswork and intuition of those officials. This study posits that priority programs are best identified through a Resident'...

China accounts for a significant share of global clean development mechanism (CDM) potential. So far, China has lagged behind other large developing countries, such as Brazil and India, in implementing a system for approval of CDM projects. But China now has the foundations for effective participation in the CDM. Eighteen projects had been approved...

Book Review Climate Trading: Development of Kyoto Protocol Markets Author: Deborah Stowell Publisher Information: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005. Finance and Capital Markets series. 264 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-1616-0 Emission trading and the market-based mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol are becoming more and more fashionable topics for...

Asia is becoming the focus of global environmental concern. This edition of IRES presents expert reviews on a broad range of environmental issues of direct relevance to Asia including climate change, forest management and the Kyoto Protocol, and delivers practical options to tackle these challenges. EDITOR'S NOTE http://enviroscope.iges.or.jp...

The eleventh session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP11) and the first session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP1) were held in Montreal, Canada, from 28 November to 9 December 2005 with the aim of meeting three...

Access to environmental information is vital for promoting policies and measures conducive to sustainable development. It influences people's behaviour and promotes environmental responsibility and ensures that public decision-making is more environmentally sound. In Asia, however, the disclosure of infomration on the environment is limited...