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Risk insurance has been proposed to provide as a means of buffering the financial shocks and to inculcate the habit of risk awareness among the farming communities. As a result, there have been several agricultural insurance programs put in place. However, the progress in the spread of insurance has been sluggish owing to several reasons which...

Actively engaging women in climate mitigation activities can yield multiple benefits, including improved jobs, better livelihoods, and more equitable revenue flows. Efforts are moving forward to design climate funding mechanisms to help capture these benefits, but policy makers and other stakeholders need more guidance on designing gender...

2016年12月14日、「気候関連の財務情報開示に関するタスクフォース（TCFD）による提言報告書」が発表されたが、本コメンタリは、企業の気候関連財務情報開示はSDGs投資拡大につながっていくのかについて議論したものである。

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This paper aims to assess climate change-related non-economic loss and damage (NELD) through case studies of Bangladesh and Japan, evaluate how NELD are addressed in these countries and provide the ways forward for further improvement. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviewed the literature to examine NELD and looked into currently available...

Owing to a high prevalence of rural poverty in Lao PDR, improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by increasing their productivity is a high priority for the Government. Smallholder farming relies primarily on rainfall, which is prone to shortfalls and occasional droughts during the crop planting season. Reliable irrigation supplies would...

Lack of economic opportunity has been identified as one of the important bottlenecks for achieving development and empowerment as a result of which several financial inclusion projects and programs have been introduced globally in the past several decades. These financial inclusion instruments range between providing cash at hand to invest in...

This presentation talks about the emerging concerns about the climate-fragility risks in Asia. The presentation provides a snapshot of the current affairs in terms of prioritized climate-fragility risks and introduces the results of a structured questionnaire survey conducted on this subject in collaboration with adelphi, Germany. Further, the...

The presentation provides an understanding of the idiosyncratic and covariate risks associated with agriculture, provides an overview of the risk management approaches to address the risks in agriculture production and evaluates the risk insurance as an effective risk management approach for the most vulnerable in agriculture. Asia pacific region...

1990年頃より北欧を中心に欧州に拡大した炭素税やエコロジー税制改革（炭素税等）に続き、日本においても、2012年より温暖化対策税としてすでに炭素税が導入されることになった。しかし、欧州の先進事例においては、日本と異なり、価格シグナルとして機能しうるほど税率が高く、かつ二重の配当を意図して税収中立とされていることが多い。このような炭素税等のあり方は、日本のNDCや長期目標達成に寄与すべく、現行の温暖化対策税の将来像の一面を提示しているといえる。しかし、日本におけるこれまでの炭素税をめぐる議論を背景とすれば、欧州の先進事例のような炭素税等を日本において実行するのは容易ではなく、これはそのような導入国においても同様であり、反対派との激しい議論の末に導入が実行されたことが多いと考える。そこで、まず...