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This article focuses on understanding the factors aecting the subconscious minds of urban citizens in terms of promoting clean energy and deregulation of the electricity sector. Does risk perception related to climate change and nuclear energy eect their choices? Does it differ between cities? A comparative analysis was performed for four cities...

The presentation discusses how traceability works in relation to the legality of harvest across the timber supply chains and demonstrated detailed insight into timber flows and different approaches taken to address the traceability in several tropical countries

Assessment review of Japanese policy frameworks for combatting imports of illegally-harvested wood and wood products

The presentation describes Japanese Clean Wood Act and discuss challenges for Japanese importers to conduct due diligence

This chapter aims to enable its readers to: i) Appreciate the need for a clear and comprehensive macroeconomic framework for research and policy analysis to support an inclusive green economy; ii) Understand the concept of multiple capital stocks – including human, physical, natural, social, institutional – and their utility in advancing the...

ASEAN Sustainable Energy Week 2019 was organised between 5th to 8th June in Bangkok. The Japan India Technology Matchmaking Platform's (JITMAP) poster was developed to introduce IGES and TERI's activities, in collaboration with Indian and Japanese stakeholders, to promote the deployment of industrial low carbon technologies and best operating...

Asia and the Pacific’s unrelenting industrial development has been a driving force in the economic growth of scores of countries in the region and beyond. This shift has led to greater prosperity, increased urbanization and sustained population growth. Yet as the region has become the “world’s factory”, it is increasingly realizing not only the...

In order to properly coordinate their efforts and facilitate technology transfer, IGES-TERI launched the ʻJapan-India Technology Matchmaking Platformʼ (JITMAP) in July 2016 as part of the project on evaluation and verification of CO2 emissions reduction technologies (TA project) funded by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ). JITMAP is a...

Eight of the world's top 20 countries as sources of marine debris are from Asia—China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, and India (Jambeck et al., 2015). In other words, the Asia-Pacific region is now recognized as a hotspot of plastic pollution of the oceans. These countries are facing typical challenges...

Embracing the interlinkages between sustainable consumption and production (SCP) and other SDGs in the national action plan for achieving SCP is indispensable from both scientific and practical perspectives. In this paper, a systems approach is proposed for achieving SCP through the interlinkages between SCP and other SDGs in Viet Nam. The IGES SDG...