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Since the Rio ‘Earth’ Summit of 1992, sustainable development has become the major policy response to tackling global environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as emissions trading, payments for ecosystem services and timber certification have become the main mechanisms for...

The Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) released the Summary for City Leaders of the Second UCCRN Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.2) at the COP21 Climate Summit for Local Leaders in Paris City Hall on December 4, 2015. According to UCCRN Co-Director Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies...

Background The Energy Law No. 30/2007 section Energy Conservation (Article 25) stipulates that energy conservation is the responsibility of all energy users including the Government, the regional government, business entities, and the community. As a derivative regulation of the Energy Law, on 16 November 2009, the Government Regulation No. 70/2009...

Feasibility studies were conducted in Bandung Indonesia for two sectors. Energy and Waste. This feasibility study was conducted in Bandung City to seek ways to reduce GHGs and conduct energy savings. Three types of technologies were considered: efficient water-cooled chillers as a replacement to conventional air-cooled chillers; LED lighting inside...

Many countries have become locked into fossil-fuel dependent energy systems. A rapidly developing Indonesia could follow a similar path. A cost-effective option for diverging from this path is energy conservation. Significant savings can be achieved in the residential sector by changing energy user behaviors; or increasing energy efficiencies in...

Overview of the Japanese waste system was shared with Bandung City Government, and local NGOs.

This presentation outlines Japan's policies which are related to the concept of green economy and sustainable development goals. Japan is not likely to create new policies or rename existing policies specifically based on green economy or SDGs, but Japan has many existing policies which can be considered related to them in a broad sense. These...