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-Partnership between Japan and India towards a Low-Carbon Economy - Business Opportunities in India: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy -IGES at UNFCCC COP14: Policy Proposals from Asian View Point -IGES Global Environment Seminar Series on Prospects of Climate Change Strategies -Research towards Sustainable Development in East Asia...

Recently global environmental issues, in particular climate change, have been gaining so much attention worldwide that they have become the main issues at the G8 summit conferences. In the light of economic development and population growth, greenhouse gas emissions look set to increase in the region headed by China and India. Overcoming serious...

Since Mongolia was opened up to the world in 1990, a number of books on contemporary Mongolia have been published for Western readers, focusing mainly on its history, politics, economy, and social issues. There is, however, still only a limited range of scientific books relating to traditional agriculture and environmental protection in Mongolia...

As the United Nations International Decade of Education for Sustainable Development approaches, it is timely to identify the achievements in education that have been accomplished in the decade of educational innovation between the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)...

This paper reviews the current state of affairs in developing Asia-Pacific countries in terms of poverty and environmental deterioration and some plausible reasons for their presence, including the poverty-environment nexus. It then assesses progress made so far by the governments of these countries and bilateral and multilateral donors in dealing...

Environmental education is rooted in the belief that humans can live compatibly with nature and act equitably towards each other. Reorienting education as a whole towards sustainability involves the various levels of formal, non-formal, and informal education at all levels of society. At the global level, UNEP, in collaboration with UNESCO, was...