Publications

This pamphlet provides a basic introduction to the Tripartite Environment Ministers Meeting among China, Japan, and Korea (TEMM). Contents include an introduction, brief history, and organization. It includes the text of the second TEMM Joint Action Plan for Environmental Cooperation, the Action List of specific activities, and the TEMM 18 Joint...

Lao PDR has development of forest planation industry based on smallholders. Teak was first planted in Luang Prabang Province since 1950s. Teak plantation have capacity to provide significant financial benefits to smallholders. Although the Lao timber industry has grown rapidly over the past ten decades, the export value of finished wood products...

A growing population and urbanization is a challenge for finite natural resources. Without strict regulation to recycle, recover and reuse resources, waste is discarded with no value. Every year throughout the world, more than twenty-five million vehicles turn into end-of-life vehicles (ELV) and most of their valuable resources end up in landfill...

ICLEI-Local Government for Sustainability East Asia secretariat was held the international training programs to cope with challenges in the field of urban sustainability and to support local and regional governments in the region. It aimed to provide capacity building opportunity to local government officials of ICLEI member city on climate change...

Lao PDR and Japan signed a bilateral document for the introduction of the JCM on 7 August, 2013. The first JCM meeting was held on 16 May 2014 to discuss (1) rules of implementation for JCM and JCM rules of procedures for the Joint Committee, (2) JCM project cycle procedure and ten forms related to the procedure, and (3) including REDD+ in the...

The Silang-Sta. Rosa subwatershed has undergone massive land use changes in the past two decades, brought about by rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. Since it is ideally strategically located for economic development, further conversion of forest and agricultural land for industrial, residential and commercial activities is planned in the...

Under the Paris Agreement in 2015, the Korean government pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 37 percent below business-as-usual (BAU) level by 2030, a goal that is considered ambitious compared to other countries’ commitments in their Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC). Alongside the 2030 national target, the government has...

In order to address waste management challenges of Phnom Penh City, development of waste management strategy is imperative to create among stakeholders common understandings on necessary policy interventions, draw demarcations of roles and responsibilities among them, and guide the actions. Waste management strategy as a package of policies...

This document aims to provide a summary of views from the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regarding the establishment of new market mechanisms based on the submission by the Parties.

This paper analyses roles of integrated approach to establish a regional mechanism for sustainable hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin. Based on a critical review of the current trend of hydropower development, it argued that existing approach of uncoordinated Mekong mainstream hydropower development cannot ensure sustainable...