Publications

Mr. Taka Hiraishi, on the Board of Directors and a Senior Consultant at IGES, currently serves as the Co-chair on the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. In this interview, he gave his account of the award ceremony of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize which he had attended as a representative of the IPCC experts, and expressed his thoughts...

Remarks: Japanese version: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=1019

Despite reform of forest law to embrace the concept of sustainable forest management and the development of a raft of subordinate regulations/guidelines to implement the Forestry Act, forests in Papua New Guinea (PNG) continue to be degraded by industrial-scale commercial logging operations. Numerous independent reports over the past two decades...

Biofuels have been rapidly taken up by many countries in the Asia and Pacific region in order to meet their energy demands and developmental needs. Biofuels have been attributed to have advantages such as mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy saving while producing them, and provision of employment. There are several studies...

Biofuels have attracted much attention due to the exciting potential opportunities for them to contribute to increasing energy security, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries. However, there are also fears that, in practice, these opportunities may not be realised, and biofuels may...