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The Conference "1/3 of Out Planet: What Can Asia and Europe Do for Sustainable Development?" held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 23-25 November 2005 , very successfully concluded the first phase of teh Asia-Europe Environment Forum. A total of twelve workshops and two plenary sessions hosted by prominent organisations in the field of the environment and...

Local governments and business community have long sought to attract large industrial facilities to their regions. This approach to local economic development is often met with many policy challenges, economic barriers and environmental limitations, On the other hand, environmental business that utilizes local resources and posses comparative socio...

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...

IGES Climate Policy Project has organized a series of international workshops to facilitate in-depth analysis and discussion on climate change issues with the focus on the Asia pacific region. The workshops has been jointly organized with UNEP Collaboration Center of Energy and Environment (UCCEE), Denmark, Energy Research Institute(ERI) of China...