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Environmental taxes primarily aim to improve environmental efficiency of the economy. Internalisation of environmental externalities is the core of environmental economics and it is understandable that most environmental tax discussion including green fiscal reform discussion has focused on the environmental efficiency improvement effect...

Trade and investment liberalisation is evolving rapidly in East Asia. Quantitative impact assessment studies tend to focus on trade liberalisation but the importance of additional analysis on the impacts of investment barriers has been pointed out by several trade liberalisation studies. We develop a global CGE model with endogenous investment...

Special Side Event at 4th Open Working Group Sustainable Development Goals as a Driver for Trans-disciplinary Research and Education – A View from the Nature Article Authors

POST2015 Yokohama Workshop / Retreat was held with wide participation including researchers and partners of POST2015 project and experts both from Japan and overseas. We discussed about vision and concrete task forces for further progress of POST2015, as well as were advised by advisors and government officials about how to integrate the outcome of...

From 1971 to 2010, world trade grew fast by 10% per year on average (World Trade Organization 2011). The rapid growth of international trade contributes not only national economic growth but also increasing environmental pressures, such as raw material extraction and depletion, carbon emissions, water resource deterioration and landscape change and...