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Policy Report
A Proposal of Domestic Policies and Measures Portfolio to Address Climate Change Mitigation in Japan
Remarks: This report is the executive summary of the policy proposal report of IGES climate policy project released in July 2002. The full report (170 pages) is only available in Japanese. http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=2489
Discussion Paper
There are a number of misunderstandings about the reality and meaning of CDM baseline setting. This paper clarifies them, and provides theoretical bases for setting guidelines on methodologies for the Methodology Panel under the CDM Executive Board. At the same time, it presents concerns over the current procedures, intending to make the future CDM...
Discussion Paper
Kitakyushu Initiative for a Clean Environment: Successful & Transferable Practices Database
Discussion Paper
APEIS/RISPO Good Practices Inventory Database
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) Volume3 Number2 (Winter 2002)
The roots of the concept of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) go back to the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, while the actual term was coined in the U.K. in 1989 in an effort to find a clear distinction between project-based environmental impact assessment and the assessment of policies above the project level. The...
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) Volume3 Number2 (Winter 2002)
Book Review: "Climate Change: From a Fossil to a Solar Culture" by Carl Amery and Hermann Scheer. Publisher information: MÙnchen: Kunstmann, 2001 (in German). a ISBN: 3-88897-266-3, 143 pp., ó10 (pbk). Reviewer: Axel Michaelowa, b Head of Programme "International Climate Policy," Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Germany. Foreign...
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) Volume3 Number2 (Winter 2002)
Book Review "Environmental Policy in the European Union-Actors, Institutions and Processes" edited by Andrew Jordan, Lecturer and Programme Manager of the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment. Publisher information: London, Sterling (VA): Earthscan Publications Limited, 2002. ISBN: 185-383-795-4, 354 pp., _18.95 (pbk)...
Peer-reviewed Article
In International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) Volume3 Number2 (Winter 2002)
Book Review World in Transition 2: New Structures for Global Environmental Policy by the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU). Publisher information: London: Earthscan, 2001. ISBN: 1-85383-852-7, 242 pp., £50.00 (hbk). International institutions play a crucial role in the movement to cope with global environmental problems, and the...
Conference Proceeding
In his keynote speech K. Kokubu, professor at Kobe University and project leader at IGES Kansai Research Center stated the importance of environmental accounting not only for environmental conscious management itself, but for corporate management in general. Two initiatives of the Japanese government seem to have caused the change of behavior of...
Business Report
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) was established in April 1998 to conduct strategic research on global environmental issues focusing on the Asia Pacific region. It aims to make policy proposals to ensure the realisation of sustainable development in the region through its policy studies conducted in each three-year research...