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This environmental learning booklet has been prepared for the students in Mandalay City based on the experiences of Kitakyushu City, one of the leading environmental model cities in Japan, to provide information, tools and guidelines emphasising reducing the amount of waste we produce; reusing, recycling and composting whatever we can and using...

This papers informs the current progress and lessons from the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) and how they will contribute to the efforts in climate mitigation, especially Post-2020 to achieve the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) in the context of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Upon the analysis of IGES researchers, this report offer...

Local authorities play a key role in tackling climate change as the ground implementers of national greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation policies. They are expected to measure, report and verify data on city-level GHG emissions in a credible and sustained manner by referring to national and global protocols and methodologies, coordinating data...

This study estimates how carbon price affects diffusion of low carbon technologies using data collected from 60 iron & steel companies in China. The analysis indicates that the industry is familiar with related key energy saving and low carbon technologies and has made much progress in energy saving, but efforts in carbon management need improving...

Although it is more than decade since the passing of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (RA 9003) in the Philippines, creating policy direction towards the establishment of a sustainable solid waste management system, its implementation is still very limited at the local government unit (LGUs) level. This policy brief therefore...

This presentation was made at the 4th Asian Think Tank Summit, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, June 8-10, 2016, Seoul, Korea.