Publications

This background paper was prepared by experts of the Asia Resource Circulation Policy Research Group to showcase a choice of core set of policy and performance indicators on the 3Rs and resource efficiency with explaining reason, challenges and practical advantages for using these indicators. The report is based on a research project of the Asia...

Material Flow Analysis/Accounting (MFA) is one of the analytical tools that make it possible to monitor countries’ resource consumption trend and efficiency in resource use at the macro level. It uses already available production, consumption and trade data in combination with environmental statistics (OECD 2008). In principle, MFA can show not...

This presentation introduced core set of nine 3R policy indicators for monitoring implementation of the Ha Noi 3R Declaration on be half of Asia Resource Circulation Policy Research Group.

Th is report was developed by Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE Japan) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) with updated case studies as an English-language version of the Japanese report “Yori sukunai shigen de yori yutakana kurashi wo (A Richer Life with Fewer Resources),” published by FoE Japan in March 2013. This report...

This presentation explains how to reduce SLCP emissions from municipal solid waste management including examples of implementation of climate friendly waste management practices in Asia.

This presentation summarises finding of an ADB project on promoting recycling business in developing Asia: China, India, Malaysia, Thailand. Examples of good recycling business model were introduced followed with recommendations to improve the recycling business toward sustainable development.

Presentation on adaptive development at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2014 thematic track