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This paper focuses on East and South Asian countries, but does not include Pacific islands. The paper looks at two distinctive periods—the pre-fast start finance (pre-FSF) period (2006-2010) and the fast-start finance (FSF) period (2010-2012)—to track the different climate finance trends in Asia. The paper further identifies the countries as either...

China implemented a package of policies during the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010) to improve industrial energy efficiency. This assessment provides a methodology that establishes a causal relationship between policy implementation and energy conservation effects. To enhance the confidence in the research findings, this assessment applies two...

Remarks: released on 23 September 2014 on the occation of the United Nations Climate Summit

Based upon the lessons from the current initiatives under the climate regime as well as relevant literature, this paper discuss specific steps and time frames that aim to add ex-ante clarity to nationally determined contributions to climate change mitigation and enhance their levels of ambition. The process proposed has three distinctive features...

The booklet provides the results of the first year of the Satoyama Development Mechanism operations and a brief introduction of the six projects selected for the year 2013.

Few dispute that good governance is critical to achieving international development goals such as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But difficulties identifying what makes governance good often leads the international development community to recommend governance reforms that countries either find easy to ignore or struggle to take forward...

The purpose of this booklet is to share information on the aims and activities of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services Area.