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Remarks: Blogpost submitted to the Independent Research Forum on Post-2015 Development Agenda

Remarks: Presented at the 3rd Annual Conference Japanese Association for Human Security Studies, Keio University at Shonan-Fujisawa Campus, September 21 and September 22, 2013

Remarks: Presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 21-22 September 2013, Kobe, Japan

2013年6月、第38回実施に関する補助機関会合・科学・技術的助言に関する補助機関会合(SBI/SBSTA38)、がドイツ・ボンで開催された。REDD+に関しては、資金面に関する交渉は全く行われなかったが、技術面に関する交渉は進捗がみられ、「国家森林モニタリングシステム(NFMS)のモダリティ」、「セーフガード情報サマリー公開の時期と頻度」、「森林減少・劣化のドライバー（原因）への対処」の3アイテムについては合意が形成された。今回の会合で重点的に議論されたのは、「森林からの排出・吸収量のMRV（計測・報告・検証）」と「森林リファレンスレベル(REL)の技術的アセスメントのガイダンス」であった。これらは今回合意には至らなかったが、次回会合(SBSTA39...

Discussions on how to define, design, and implement sustainable development goals (SDG) have taken center stage in the United Nations since the Rio+20 summit. Energy is one of the issues that enjoyed consensus, before and after Rio, as an important area for SDGs to address. Many proposals have been put forward on how SDGs should be formulated and...

In this study, a multi-scale approach was used for mapping land cover in a high resolution image of an urban area. Pixels and image segments were assigned the spectral, texture, size, and shape information of their super-objects (i.e. the segments that they are located within) from coarser segmentations of the same scene, and this set of super...