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Foreword Chapter 1: Overviews of the Fourth Phase Strategic Research Chapter 2: Research Activities -Climate Policy Project -Market Mechanism Project -Biofuels Project -Forest Conservation Project -Freshwater Project -Waste and Resources Project -Business and the Environment Project -Capacity Development and Education Project Chapter 3: Programme...

The Kitakyushu Initiative for a Clean Environment is a 10-year programme aimed at achieving improvement in the urban environment by building the capacities of local governments in urban environmental management through fostering information exchange, dissemination of case studies and analysis of successful practices to support their replication, as...

To ensure accountability of each research project, and to provide a mechanism of transparency to its stakeholders, IGES conducts Project Peer Review every three years, inviting a Peer Review Panel composed of externally based experts. The review results are reflected in the 4th Phase strategic research of IGES (FY2007-2009). Climate Policy Project...

To ensure accountability of each research project, and to provide a mechanism of transparency to its stakeholders, IGES conducts Project Peer Review every three years, inviting a Peer Review Panel composed of three externally based experts. The PPR system was officially introduced from fiscal year 2004 after a test run Peer Review in February 2004...

The Third Phase Strategic Research Programme Remarks: Japanese Version: http://enviroscope.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=1557

This report contains a summary of the project research carried out by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) during the First Phase of Strategic Research, which lasted for the three years from the Institute's establishment in April 1998 until March 2001. It also includes a summary of both internal and external evaluations of the...

The research activity of the Climate Change Project in the first phase of IGES research was carried out focusing on the policy proposals responding to the process of UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. Emphasis was put on the system design of the Kyoto Mechanisms such as emissions trading or the clean development...

During its first phase of research the IGES Forest Conservation Project attempted to identify principles and measures for sustainable forest management (SFM) based on experiences in the Asia-Pacific region. Extensive studies were carried out within a framework of four interrelated sub-teams by in-house research staff, visiting researchers and many...

Phase 1 of the IGES Project on Urban Environmental Management was conducted during the three-year period from April 1998 to March 2001. Extensive studies were carried out in-house in addition to contributions made by numerous outside collaborators. Studies were conducted by various methods including literature surveys, statistical data collection...