Publications

Remarks: Commissioned research report by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOE)

"Climate Policy 2005 and Beyond: Japanese-German Impulses" was held on 1 November 2005 in Tokyo as part of the events taking place during the Germany year in Japan 2005/2006. This conference, commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) was co-organised by the Wuppertal Insititute for...

Asia is becoming the focus of global environmental concern. This edition of IRES presents expert reviews on a broad range of environmental issues of direct relevance to Asia including climate change, forest management and the Kyoto Protocol, and delivers practical options to tackle these challenges. EDITOR'S NOTE http://enviroscope.iges.or.jp...

Book Review Climate Trading: Development of Kyoto Protocol Markets Author: Deborah Stowell Publisher Information: Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2005. Finance and Capital Markets series. 264 pp. Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-1616-0 Emission trading and the market-based mechanisms of the Kyoto Protocol are becoming more and more fashionable topics for...

China accounts for a significant share of global clean development mechanism (CDM) potential. So far, China has lagged behind other large developing countries, such as Brazil and India, in implementing a system for approval of CDM projects. But China now has the foundations for effective participation in the CDM. Eighteen projects had been approved...

Urban planners and elected officials are often under pressure to utilize scarce financial and human resources on selective environmental regeneration programs. Prioritizing such investments is not best based on the guesswork and intuition of those officials. This study posits that priority programs are best identified through a Resident'...

Japan and Russia share interests in energy and climate, but currently cooperation between these neighboring countries is small. The Russian Far East seems like a logical ground for cooperation due to its proximity to Japan; however, it is difficult to establish whether this part of Russia could have a special role in Japanese plans. The lack of...

International climate-control or environmental agreements have substantial impacts on international terms of trade. This would seem to suggest that international environmental coalitions cooperating on climate control could penalize non-cooperating countries through trade sanctions. However, alternative approaches exist in which cooperating nations...

The Kyoto Protocol, in its present form, is quantitatively and structurally totally inadequate to combat dangerous climate change. That is - to the authors of this paper - the inevitable conclusion to be drawn from three careful scientific studies on behalf of the Ministry of Environment of the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, two...

This paper addresses two prime concerns in ecotourism: defining ecotourism, and identifying indicators of ecotourism to facilitate operationalizing and evaluating the concept at a particular location. Based on a literature review, the following indicators are identified: impacts of ecotourism on the natural environment, its contribution to the...