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This report presents an overview of policies and initiatives related to sustainable consumption and production advanced by the governments of the pan-European region. Although not pretending to present an exhaustive overview of those policies and initiatives, the report was developed based on literature review as well as on the results of a pilot...

This commentary summarises the key findings and implications of the study on Lifestyle Carbon Footprints: Long-term targets and case studies of the carbon footprints of household consumption. This study introduces and develops an approach to establishing lifestyle carbon footprints: greenhouse gases directly emitted during and indirectly induced by...

This poster presentation received The People's Choice Award at the 13th Biennial International Conference on Ecobalance, 9-12 Oct. 2018, Tokyo, Japan. The poster was selected among over 90 posters by the votes of the participants. The Paris Agreement envisions a net negative carbon society by the second half of the century. Existing studies on...

本報告書は、環境省委託事業「平成29年度パリ協定の実施に向けた詳細ルールの検討・情報整理等業務」に関する成果をまとめたものである。

This brochure of the Japan-France Collaboration on Climate Change and Long-Term Low Carbon Strategies gives an overview of the activities undertaken in 2017-2018 under the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ) and the French Ministry of Ecological and Social Transition (METS). Signed by both Ministers for...

Across the world, the rate of urbanization is increasing at a rapid pace. As the areas in which the majority of people live and work, cities are increasingly acknowledged as the arena in which solutions to major societal and environmental challenges must be implemented. This rapid change has put many cities under significant strain. Local...