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Peer-reviewed Article
In IRES Vol.5 No. 1
The Kyoto Protocol was signed at the third Convention of the Parties (COP 3) in 1997, and its participating nations are now formulating national and international guidelines to achieve the protocol’s goals as they wait for it to come into force. At the same time, nations not participating in the protocol are taking measures to achieve parallel...
Annual Report
Peer-reviewed Article
In IRES Vol.5 No.1
Continued economic growth in China, which is spurring on demand for and consumption of large amounts of energy, poses a significant challenge to implementing a sustainable development strategy in this country. Whereas the climate change issue may not be given a high priority on the nation’s political agenda, greenhouse gas emission reduction...
Peer-reviewed Article
In IRES Vol.5 No.1
According to Japan’s official Climate Change Policy Programme, the government aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 6 percent compared with its 1990 base year emissions, mainly through domestic actions, and then address a projected 1.6 percent shortfall of emission reductions by utilizing the Kyoto Mechanisms. It is pointed out, however...
Peer-reviewed Article
In IRES Vol.5 No.1
The strengths and weaknesses of the Kyoto Protocol must be carefully assessed in designing future agreements to tackle climate change. The Kyoto Protocol’s main strength may lay in its emissions trading feature?a key for cost-effectiveness, environmental effectiveness, and equity. Its main weakness may lay in the incapacity of Kyoto-type targets to...
Policy Report
Climate change is a worldwide threat that affects global ecosystems and human life over the next several centuries. While adverse effects of climate change are likely to spread out over many decades and centuries, actions to minimize such impacts are required immediately. The challenge we face is to decide on short-term actions while thinking from...
Conference Proceeding
The Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are highly vulnerable to climate change and sea- level rise and often experience extremely damaging climate-related events (tropical cyclones, droughts, floods, etc.). Their heavy reliance on the productivity of one or two economic sectors (fisheries, tourism, etc.) that are highly sensitive to climate and...
