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In August 2013, Japan and Indonesia agreed to promote the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) to develop large-scale, concrete JCM projects. As part of this, this project studied the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the main energy consumption fields in Surabaya. Target areas included the four sectors of energy, transportation...

A new pansharpening method was developed and applied to Landsat 8’s multispectral image bands. It involves adding two new terms to the commonly-used Fast Intensity-Saturation-Hue (FIHS) algorithm: a trend-based modulation factor, and a band modulation factor. The proposed method was tested on an urban study area in Yokohama, Japan and an...

In November 2013, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) worked with Clean Air Asia (CAA) to organize an e-learning training workshop entitled Measuring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) in the Transport Sector. The workshop was designed to enhance capacities to estimate GHG emissions from the transport sector. The training...

Forty years have passed since the first real conference on the environment and humans took place and it has now been twenty years since the concept of sustainable development (SD) entered the lexicon of the international development and policy arenas. During that period, several significant international agreements have laid out grand projects and...

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