The fast growth of economy in developing Asian countries has caused various problems on the environment. Corporate environmental management (CEM) is still obviously poor and thus needs to be greatly improved. With aims to fill up the gap of policies encouraging better CEM, Kansai Research Centre, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (KRC...
This paper gives a glance of carbon emission status, the latest efforts and policy progress in Japan, China and Korea, and provides an integrative summary of previous discussions of carbon tax policy based on a comprehensive literature overview. By using the information collected from these countries, a comparative analysis is conducted to identify...
As a major component of the corporate environmental management (CEM) project conducted at Kansai Research Centre, IGES, during 2007-2009, environmental information disclosure (EID) is believed effective for promoting CEM by assisting in better communications of the firms and their related stakeholders like governmental agencies, investors...