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Over the past decade, Japan has an emerging carbon market, which was non-existent before the Kyoto protocol. While there have been discussions regarding cap-and-trade at the national level, compulsory policies remain extremely controversial with particularly strong opposition from the industrial sector. Currently, Japan has decided neither to...

The Global Outlook on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Policies, developed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) with the financial support of the European Commission, provides a non-exhaustive review of policies and initiatives that are promoting the shift towards SCP patterns. This report identifies examples of effective...

Many chemicals used in the electronics sector have negative consequences for human and environmental health. These include chemicals such as lead, mercury, brominated flame retardants, halogenated flame retardants, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and phthalates. Typical electronic waste handling practices in developing countries are detrimental to the...

Adaptation is a priority agenda for many developing and vulnerable countries in the world. Adaptation requires substantive resources in terms of financial and human resource capacity. While most of adaptation actions can be planned and implemented at the national level using national resources, there still is a large gap between needs and available...

Mr. Taka Hiraishi, on the Board of Directors and a Senior Consultant at IGES, currently serves as the Co-chair on the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. In this interview, he gave his account of the award ceremony of 2007 Nobel Peace Prize which he had attended as a representative of the IPCC experts, and expressed his thoughts...

Agriculture is one of the most vulnerable sectors to climate change and main-streaming climate change adaptation considerations at the sectoral level is paramount. The current available climate projections are not sufficient to take decisive actions on the ground. Hence, a framework is required for mainstreaming adaptation concerns at sectoral...

The Asia 3R Conference was held in Tokyo, Japan on October 3oth - November 1st, 2006, hosted by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan. The Secretariat of the conference consisted of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan and the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies in Japan. There were 19 participating countries from Asia, 5 G8 member...