Publications

It has been widely regarded that policies and institutions that are adaptive in nature are better able to deal with the dynamic issues such as environmental degradation and climate change adaptation. However, verifying the veracity of this hypothesis is difficult often due to absence of long experience in climate change adaptation in most countries...

Over the past decade, Japan has an emerging carbon market, which was non-existent before the Kyoto protocol. While there have been discussions regarding cap-and-trade at the national level, compulsory policies remain extremely controversial with particularly strong opposition from the industrial sector. Currently, Japan has decided neither to...

The first Preparatory Committee Meeting for the Rio+20/ UNCSD 2012 conference prioritized the reform of multilevel environmental governance aiming to address the “persistent implementation gap” for sustainable development. Most subsequent preparatory discussions have focused on improving sustainable development governance and institutions solely at...

-Towards Rio+20: IGES Messages from an Asian Perspective -IGES and IPCC Host Open Meeting -Japan and India Pursue Dialogue on Climate Change Policy and Measures -Household Winter Energy Saving: Introducing Measures based on Comfort -Economic Impact Evaluation of Nuclear Power Phase-out and Renewable Energy -The First Data Report on Resource...