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Forest ecosystems worldwide are increasingly subjected to human intervention, leading commentators to argue that forests should be viewed as anthropogenic ecosystems. REDD+ is an emerging inter-governmental policy instrument aimed at both reducing deforestation and forest degradation and combating climate change, whereby developed countries pay...

Living-book for the youth encouraging deeper consideration how to integrate soil, soul, society (天地人= 三才) for the resilient future based on the analysis of environmental sociology discourse as well as authors practice.

Most of the East and Southeast Asian countries are about finalizing establishment of basic EIA system. However, they still need to strengthen its implementation and further establishment of EIA related policies and guidelines. Existing activities on strengthening EIA by ADB, IFC, JICA, UNDP, USAID, USEPA, WB, and others in Asia IGES study...

This report was prepared for the Asia EIA Conference 2016 organised on 10 May by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ). The conference was held under the theme of enhancing EIA as a sustainable development planning tool in Asia in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection...

Despite the existence of a large number of partnerships, programmes, initiatives and instruments to promote Low Carbon TechnologyTransfer (LCTT), no framework, agreement, assessment or monitoring mechanism currently exists to bind them all together, which means they are becoming ever more fragmented and uncoordinated. The presentation proposes to...

On 12-13 May 2016, OECD co-organized International Workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility in India: Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons from International Experience. Yasuhiko Hotta, Area Leader of SCP, made a presentation in the session to discuss improving e-waste management through EPR system.

The Great East Japan Earthquake highlighted the importance of building diversified energy systems suited to local areas. Since April in 2016, the electric power retail market has been fully liberalized in Japan. This pamphlet explains the background of establishment of local energy companies by local governments in Japan, summarizes and compares...

東日本大震災以降、地域に適した分散型エネルギーモデル構築の重要性がクローズアップされてきました。また2016年4月からは電力小売の全面自由化が開始されています。本パンフレットでは、自治体による地域エネルギー会社設立の背景や、各自治体の取組を比較・整理し、自治体による地域エネルギー会社の共通事項や今後新規に参入を検討する自治体が考慮すべきポイントなどを取りまとめています。 Remarks: English Version: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=6637

This study examines how a carbon tax could affect industrial-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in Japan. Rather than forecasting the effects of a tax, the paper employs a time-series autoregressive moving average (ARMA) model to determine how past subsidies and fuel price changes affected investments in energy and carbon intensity in Japan’s...