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Policy Report

February 2013

REDD+ projects: A review of selected REDD+ project designs

This report reviews 27 REDD+ project designs using a template that includes common issues for all REDD+ projects intending to generate carbon credits. It aims to provide practical information and lessons for the development of national REDD+ strategies and for the climate change negotiations.

Policy Report

November 2013

Managing forests as a renewable asset for present and future generations: Verifying legal compliance in forestry in Papua New Guinea

This report aims to contribute to the management of PNG’s forests as a renewable natural asset for the collective benefit of all Papua New Guineans. It argues that to achieve these ends, illegalities in the forest sector need serious attention. The report aims to (i) provide a review of the illegal logging issue in PNG, (ii) identify the potential...

Research Report

July 2014

Unveiling Nature’s Gifts: Measuring and Visualising Ecosystem Services

Since the 2000s, an increasing number of initiatives have been undertaken in the attempt to measure the physical quantities or the monetary values of ecosystem services. However, concrete methodologies for the quantification of ecosystem services are still to be developed; even the governmental, corporate and academic initiatives for the...

Policy Report

March 2015

A Survey of ASEAN's Organizational Structure and Decision Making Process for Regional Environmental Cooperation and Recommendations for Potential External Assistance

The objective of this paper is to provide a survey of factors influencing ASEAN’s decision making process for environmental cooperation by looking at issues relating to the organizational and governance structure of ASEAN. Specifically, this survey a) outlines the current status of ASEAN’s environmental activities according to specific areas and...

Research Report

January 2015

Effectiveness of Insurance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Challenges and Opportunities

Agrarian and poor communities in general in the Asia-Pacific region are highly vulnerable to climate change. Effective reduction of vulnerabilities requires aligning sustainable development (SD), climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiatives. Insurance has been increasingly advocated as a risk management tool both by...

Research Report

December 2013

Water Availability for Sustainable Energy Policy: Assessing cases in South and South East Asia

Policy Report

March 2014

Major Developments in China’s National Air Pollution Policies in the Early 12th Five‐Year Plan

This report reviews recent developments in China’s formal national air pollution policies from late 2011 to late 2013. It also reviews the related legal framework and administrative structure of implementation of air pollution prevention and control measures in China, to illustrate the context and legal significance of these trends. The complexity...

Research Report

March 2014

Adaptation decision making frameworks and tools: Multi-criteria decision making tools for prioritizing adaptation actions at community level.

There is a lack of holistic frameworks to help climate change adaptation practitioners identify and implement CCA (climate change adaptation) actions. Keeping this in view, several frameworks for CCA decision making have evolved in recent years. Though these frameworks are still at nascent stages and are yet to be field tested, studies of these...

Policy Report

March 2014

Governance and National Sustainable Development Strategies: Implications for the SDGs

This policy report surveys the National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS) of five countries (Bhutan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, and Thailand) in the larger Asia-Pacific region. Summarizing countries' existing governance mechanisms and processes can be of use as countries gear up to translate future sustainable...

Research Report

March 2014

Community-based forest biomass monitoring: Action research in PNG, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR and Vietnam

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), together with some of our key partners and local communities, launched an action research project in five countries – Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR and Vietnam – beginning in 2010 to develop and test approaches to engage local communities in forest biomass monitoring. This...