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Resources for the Future and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies convened a one and one-half day workshop on domestic and international climate policy May 11?12, 2005, in Tokyo, Japan. The first day included 49 participants hearing presentat

This paper examines the process to lead the adoption of the EU directive on establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community, in order to identify the reasons for Germany to agree on the adoption, despite of the expected friction caused by the shift from its existing national measures, especially voluntary...

Since the population, vehicles, energy consumptions, economic activities are rising in the metropolitan area of Seoul, it is difficult for existing environmental policies and measures to mitigate air pollutions. To respond such challenges, the Ministry of Environment (MoE) of Republic of Korea (ROK) enacted the Special Act on Metropolitan Air...

Although the Kyoto Protocol enters into force, the Republic of Korea (ROK) doesn't have any quantitative green house gas (GHG) reduction target as its commitment because of its status as a Non-Annex I party. However, the negotiation to formulate the new commitment for next round will start in COP-11 at the end of 2005. Apparently, the main agenda...

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...

"Compact city" in this policy option refers to land planning focusing on higher density and better accessibility which reduces automobile dependency. "Smart growth" is a general term for land use practices that create more accessible land use patterns which reduce the amount of travel needed to reach goods and services (Litman, 2003a). Experiences...

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Focusing on 278 listed corporations in Japan, the present study tests the hypothesis that robust environmental conservation activities have a positive effect on their financial performance. It also examines the role played by the environmental policies introduced and strengthened by the government since the end of the 1990s. By a statistical...

本研究は、わが国における上場企業278社について、環境保全活動の強化が財務業績に対してもプラスの影響を与えるものとなるという仮説を検証しようとするものであるが、1990年代末から導入・強化されてきた環境政策とそれに対する企業の対応が果たした役割についても考察する。 1999年から2003年までのデータを用いた統計的因果性の分析により、環境経営度のような環境活動情報に、企業の環境政策対応に関する情報を加えた場合のほうが、環境活動の財務パフォーマンスに及ぼすプラスの影響がよりよく検証されることが明らかにされた。さらに産業別の分析から、(1) 機械産業では環境パフォーマンスから財務パフォーマンスへの関係はどちらかといえばマイナスであること、(2) エネルギー集約産業ではプラスの関係が強いものの...