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To achieve regional sustainable development by decoupling waste generation from economic growth in Asian countries, this study identified (1) whether the decoupling of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation from economic growth has occurred; and (2) the relationship between MSW generation and related driving factors, by examining six representative...

To classify Very-High-Resolution (VHR) imagery, Geographic Object Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) is the most popular method used to produce high quality Land-Use/Land-Cover maps. A crucial step in GEOBIA is the appropriate parametrization of the segmentation algorithm prior to the classification. However, little effort has been made to automatically...

As part of the State of the 3Rs in Asia and the Pacific Project, we conducted a comparative study of 11 countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Japan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam) and a sub-region (Pacific island countries) to clarify the definition, classification, amount generated, and related 3R...

This presentation was prepared for the workshop held in the UK in September 2018. This describes the overview of the current policy status on marine plastics. In the concluding part, it is also presented about the possible areas IGES can contribute to the future collaborative research project.

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本稿では日本の2050年までの温室効果ガス，エネルギーシステムのシナリオを，複数のエネルギーモデルもしくは統合評価モデルを用いて定量化し，それらを相互比較することによって，不確実性を踏まえた長期の気候政策の評価を行う。

This paper studies the effect of carbon emission trading schemes in China and identifies the factors that influence companies' willingness to pay for carbon emissions, as expressed by the increase in energy costs due to the national carbon market. A questionnaire with a multiple-bounded discrete choice format was designed and 555 valid samples were...

This presentation outlines the analysis results of a questionnaire survey targeting the households in Hyogo prefecture, which received the ‘Uchi-eco Diagnosis’ (A tool to check the household energy use and recommend carbon mitigation countermeasures). It is indicated that solar PV and energy efficient water heaters have been largely applied in the...

Cognisant of the disadvantages of incineration (i.e. high disposal costs, barriers to promoting the 3Rs, overuse of resources and impacts on climate change), Oki Town decided to make a radical change with the installation of a biogas plant equipped with a methane fermentation system in 2006, sparking a transition from a conventional...

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Japan, and The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), India, organized an awareness workshop about disseminating Japanese low carbon technologies (LCTs) in India on 30th August 2018 at Ankleshwar Industries Association premises in Ankleshwar, as part of the activities under Japan-India...