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Lack of economic opportunity has been identified as one of the important bottlenecks for achieving development and empowerment as a result of which several financial inclusion projects and programs have been introduced globally in the past several decades. These financial inclusion instruments range between providing cash at hand to invest in...

This presentation talks about the emerging concerns about the climate-fragility risks in Asia. The presentation provides a snapshot of the current affairs in terms of prioritized climate-fragility risks and introduces the results of a structured questionnaire survey conducted on this subject in collaboration with adelphi, Germany. Further, the...

The presentation provides an understanding of the idiosyncratic and covariate risks associated with agriculture, provides an overview of the risk management approaches to address the risks in agriculture production and evaluates the risk insurance as an effective risk management approach for the most vulnerable in agriculture. Asia pacific region...

Effective national level education legislative/policy mandates with sound financial backing and human resource capacity, etc. will go a long way in the education/EE implementation process.This presentation is a 'research update' on an attempt to evaluate the existing national EE Acts in the world aimed to serve as a baseline for improvement and...

Each year, more than 25 million vehicles reach their end-of-life (ELV) throughout the world and this number is rising rapidly with time. Most of the developed countries like Japan and EU nations have strict policies to manage the ELV in efficient way. In this research we aim to clarify the impact of end-of life-vehicles (ELV) regulation on...

This presentation was presented at a seminar titled “Low Carbon Technologies: bridging Japan and Europe” held on 11-12 October 2016, in Szentendre, Hungary. It introduced key Japanese initiatives to promote low carbon technology transfer, while mainly focusing on considering the stakeholders 'matchmaking as innovative business model to promote low...

This presentation was presented at the International Carbon & Eco Labelling Seminar which was held in Seoul R. Korea on Oct. 20th 2016. Its key message is to consider the stakeholders’ matching as innovative business model to promote Low Carbon Technology Deployment and Transfer. It builds upon IGES's research activities and findings regarding the...

This presentation explains the strategies and policies of Japan for the development and investments of low carbon technology, especially those implemented by the Ministry of Environment of Japan (MOEJ), the latest progress in the joint crediting mechanism (JCM) and the L2-tech Initiative. It helps the understanding of the participants from the...

The workshop to launch S-16 project in Asia was organised in October 20-21, 2016. Ryu Koide made a presentation on the mapping of the past and on-going research projects related to Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in other regions with a case study of EU projects.

The workshop to launch S-16 project in Asia was organized in October 20-21, 2016. Yasuhiko Hotta made a presentation on how to reconsider conventional SCP typologies during the workshop.