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This presentation was prepared as a part of the online courseware for the course on "Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management in Plans and Investments Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development' organized by the Faculty of Management and development studies of University of the Philippines Open...

This booklet aims to provide relevant information on Japanese low carbon technologies and services and the various mechanisms, schemes and initiatives for enhancing the transfer and diffusion of low carbon technologies in developing countries in the Asian region. The booklet was commissioned by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), as part...

This report introduces national city awards programmes as a tool for national government ministries and partners to promote the realisation of sustainable urban and city development. It discusses the challenges of designing and implementing national city awards programmes, drawing from a review of city awards initiatives in four ASEAN member states...

It has been widely regarded that policies that are adaptive in nature are better able to deal with dynamic and uncertain issues such as environmental degradation and climate change adaptation. However, verifying the veracity of this hypothesis is difficult in the field of climate change often due to absence of long experience of policy making for...

Measuring the effectiveness of adaptation to climate change has assumed significance for the reasons that huge amount of resources are being made available for climate change adaptation and it is important for various stakeholders to identify and prioritize adaptation actions before they are implemented on the ground so as to achieve adaptation...

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.

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...

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...

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...