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Strategy: Development of environmentally sustainable transport systems in urban areas Environmental areas: Climate change, air pollution, urban environment Critical instruments: Economic instruments, organisational arrangements, partnerships, technologies Country: Japan Location: Fukuoka Participants: West Japan Ecology Network (NGO), Kyushu...

Public-private partnership-based services could be one of the better solutions for developing urban environmental infrastructure - which includes sewage treatment and municipal solid waste disposal services - in developing countries. Due to the low availability of funds for investment in the public sector and operating inefficiencies in government...

Development of markets for, and large-scale use of, renewable energy products and technologies have been hindered by their high up-front capital costs; the renewable energy industry's inadequate access to credit; subsidies for fossil fuels; and low purchasing capacity among potential consumers. While conventional funding and financial instruments...

Since 1999/2000, the Asia-Pacific region has been experiencing a boom in regional and bilateral free trade agreements, with the result that trade regimes are increasingly taking place in the context of FTAs and regional economic integration. Consequently, many of the key issues in the ever-growing interface between trade and environment have...

Dust (yellow) storms are becoming a serious environmental problem in the Asia-Pacific region.1 Being part of this region, Mongolia is beginning to experience the consequences of global warming and climate change, as well as having its own impact on the natural environment. With the transition to a market economy, the number of livestock-the main...

In Making Microchips Jan Mazurek provides not only a broad overview of the environmental challenges facing the semiconductor industry and its regulators, but also gives insights on new-style regulatory initiatives. Mazurek's goal is not to propose a grand solution to the difficult problems the chip industry faces, but to provide the background...

Up to now, analyses of climate policy have mainly focused on Europe and the United States. So in principle it is welcome that Chang et al. address a region that will be increasingly important for climate change issues-East Asia. Unfortunately, the book has several shortcomings that limit its usefulness. It is a collection of papers from a...