Publications

This paper estimates an internal carbon pricing of Korean companies under the Korean domestic emission trading scheme using firm-level data. Internal carbon pricing is a monetary value putting on GHG emissions, which enables companies to take a measurable approach of carbon management and investment strategy in business operations. The price of...

In object-based image analysis (OBIA), the appropriate parametrization of segmentation algorithms is crucial for obtaining satisfactory image classification results. One of the ways this can be done is by unsupervised segmentation parameter optimization (USPO). A popular USPO method does this through the optimization of a “global score” (GS), which...

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) submitted this document as a third-party submission to the Talanoa Dialogue of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This submission uses climate-related research findings from the Institute itself, as well as member organisations of the Low-Carbon Society...

Resilient Asia: Fusion of Traditional and Modern Systems for a Sustainable Future

Assessing local-scale inclusive wealth: a case study of Sado Island, Japan Remarks: DOI 10.1007/s11625-018-0540-y

The Project for Strengthening Institutional and Policy Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Integration (termed as CN20 Project), which complies with the Concept Note (CN) 20 of the 21 Flagship and Priority Projects of the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) Work Programme...

14th Asia Pacific Eco-Business Forum in Kawasaki was organized on 1 February 2018 under the topic "Toward an Urban-Industrial Symbiosis - Actions from Kawasaki: Strengthening Cooperation among Cities in Asia to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -". Ran Yagasa delivered a presentation during the Session 3 titled "Environmental...

This report compares the energy and technology exposure of the Tokyo Stock Price Index (TOPIX) stock market index with the 2°C roadmap of the International Energy Agency (IEA). The analysis is based on a translation of this climate scenario into “2°C benchmarks” for investment portfolios, focusing on a 5-year window: 2016-2021. Such a 2°C benchmark...

The advent of very high resolution (VHR) satellite imagery and the development of Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) have led to many new opportunities for fine-scale land cover mapping, especially in urban areas. Image segmentation is an important step in the GEOBIA framework, so great time/effort is often spent to ensure that...

The document is a presentation given at a workshop organized on 22 January by The Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC), Szentendre, Hungary. It gives insights on how stakeholders' matchmaking could be an innovative business model to promote green technology transfer.