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Groundwater has been a traditional source of water supply in Japan for a long period of time. After the country entered a rapid phase of industrialization and urbanization, there was an obvious increase in the pressures on the groundwater environment. Uncontrolled abstraction of groundwater soon led to the emergence of problems such as drawdown of...

Groundwater is a key resource in the process of socioeconomic development, as it constitutes above one fourth of the total renewable water resources in the entire subregion. Due to a lack of understanding and previous poor governance, environmental issues relating to groundwater such as depletion of groundwater resources and well yield (e.g...

"CDM in Charts" is a booklet with a good reputation for providing a plain and easy-to-understand description of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). * This page stores the archived PDF. For the latest version, please download from: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=835 Remarks: Update log: ver. 1.0 (Apr. 2007) ver. 1.1 (May...

There have been many proposals to address the competitiveness and carbon leakage concerns due to the asymmetric international arrangement for mitigating the global GHG emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Carbon adjustment at the border has received special attention. The objective of border carbon adjustment (BCA) is to level the playing field...

The "JCM in CHARTS" series aim to provide a comprehensive and easy-to-understand description of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) in each host country. This version describes the rules, procedures, and references for implementing the JCM in Vietnam.

This manual is about building knowledge and capacity for respecting people’s right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). It can be described as the establishment of conditions under which people exercise their fundamental right to negotiate the terms of externally imposed policies and programs that directly affect their livelihoods or...