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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...

Research Report

March 2014

REDD+ projects: Snapshots of REDD+ project designs - 2013

REDD+ projects are invariably complex. There is a need to extract and present the knowledge and lessons that are being generated by them in a systematic and accessible manner. The IGES publication REDD+ Projects: Snapshots of selected REDD+ project designs aims to contribute to meeting this need. This report aims to present a succinct overview of...

Research Report

May 2014

Market-based Instruments for Improving Company Carbon Performance in Northeast Asia

This report summarises the key outputs of a three-year research project by IGES Kansai Research Centre on “Market-based Instruments (MBIs) for Improving Company Carbon Performance in Northeast Asia”. By carrying out a comprehensive overview of related policy progress in the region and conducting various questionnaire surveys and empirical analyses...

Non Peer-reviewed Article

October 2014

Sustainable Development Goals - The global dimension

Policy Report

March 2015

Climate change, changing rainfall and increasing water scarcity: An integrated approach for planning adaptation and building resilience of smallholder subsistence livelihoods in Nepal

This research report assesses water scarcity and its impacts on smallholder subsistence livelihoods in the context of climate change in Nepal, a mountainous country located entirely within the Ganges River Basin. It identifies and analyses existing coping responses and assesses options for introducing an adaptive response strategy to improve...