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The IGES Kitakyushu Office conducted studies on advanced policies in urban environmental management and carried out the following activities targeting intercity cooperation that use the experiences of local governments. ・ Study on Methods for Improving Urban Environmental Infrastructure ・ Case Studies on Urban Environmental Management (Kitakyushu...

This report summarizes the activities and findings of the Environmental Education Project for the past three years. Divided into four parts, the report describes twin objectives of the Project as formulating a comprehensive strategy of environmental education in the region and developing a mechanism to implement it. Its major activities include (1)...

The main purpose of the Environmental Governance Project of IGES was to address and analyse major issues of environmental governance and to make concrete policy recommendations relevant to the Asian region. Several national and sub-regional environmental governance systems were to be selected and examined in a cross-sectoral and comparative manner...

This report summarizes the activities and findings of the New Development Patterns Project (NDP) during the first phase of IGES research. The aim of the NDP Project is to explore new patterns of development in order to arrive at societies with sound material cycles, focusing particularly on Asia and the Pacific. This project was carried out in line...

The effectiveness of international city‐to‐city cooperation and intercity networks has been highlighted by developmental agencies and local governments overseas, yet, a majority of Japanese local governments question the merits, particularly with developing cities. This report aims to answer questions posed by Japanese local governments and reviews...

Kyoto Protocol incorporates the international flexibility mechanisms such as emissions trading, etc., in addition to setting the quantified commitments for Annex I Parties. The Protocol also recognizes the importance of domestic actions, and supports the concept of supplementarity in the Articles 6 and 17. EU proposes to limit the tradeable amounts...

Burning is the most simple and cheap method for small-scale farmers to manage plant residue. This practice does provide immediate benefits to farmers, but the wider immediate and long-term negative impacts are much larger. The objective of this study is to elaborate an alternative model for environmental and economically sound plant residue...

This paper is part of a project called “Linkages among Emissions Trading Schemes and with offset projects” which is carried out under the international research network Climate Strategies, with headquarter in Cambridge, UK. Within this project, several reputed international research institutes including IGES collaborate to explore possible linkage...

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...