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This policy brief explores the debate on the green economy concept for the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), to be held in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, and covers initiatives in various countries. It also makes a proposal on the vital role of Japan in linking green economy policies from developed countries to global...

Competitiveness and carbon leakage are two central concerns in the international negotiations of a future climate policy. With more attentions given to border adjustment measures to address these concerns, it is rational to consider consumption-based national inventory to account for emissions embodied in international trade. In this work, we...

Most of the current institutional systems and policy processes have been evolved mainly to deal with ‘known problems with known solutions’, and are often characterized with rigidity in structure, administrative procedures, and decision making mechanisms. Experience suggests that such institutional and policy processes have been ineffective to deal...

Sector aggregation can influence the robustness of the results of environmentally-extended analysis using MRIO models which limits its practical application. In this paper, we examined the size of the aggregation error in carbon footprint accounting using MRIO models and tried to explore factors which influence the effect of the aggregation error...

Competitiveness and carbon leakage are two central concerns in the international negotiations of a future climate policy. With more attentions given to border adjustment measures to address these concerns, it is rational to consider consumption-based national inventory to account for emissions embodied in international trade. In this work, we...

Outline of groundwater issues in Asia and introduction of IGES activities as the Asia-Pacific Water Forum Water Knowledgehub for Groundwater Management.