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This report summarizes the interviews conducted by the Ministry of the Environment, the National Institute for Environment Studies (NIES), and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) to obtain opinions and insights from twelve top-ranked or top-class analysts covering the following six-teen industrial sectors: steel and non-ferrous...

本研究では銅の先物市場、時価市場、純銅スクラップ市場、黄銅スクラップ市場という異なる銅市場を扱い、これらの間に価格連動性が存在するのかを検証することによって、銅スクラップ市場が現状として電気銅市場の代替市場としての役割を果たしているのかということについて見た。分析結果によると、電気銅純度が高く代替的関係にあると予測される先物市場、時価市場、純銅スクラップ市場の間には価格連動性があるのに対し、銅以外に亜鉛などを含む純度の低い黄銅スクラップとの間には価格連動性は存在しないということが示された。この結果から、純度の低いスクラップ市場は電気銅市場の代替市場としての機能を果たすことは難しいと考えられ、銅のスクラップ市場を有効的に活性化させていくためには...

Research on the “Policy Development for Regional Framework and Cobenefit Approach to Promote Air Pollution Control in East Asia” started in Fiscal Year 2009 as one of the themes of the research on the “Comprehensive Research on Improved Regional Air Quality Management through Analyses of Regional Air Pollution and Cobenefits Approach”. The...

Green purchasing (GP) is an important part of sustainable consumption, which reduces the impact of society on the environment. As few studies of people’s GP behaviours exist for China, this paper tries to close the gap by exploring GP behaviours of urban residents in Suzhou city, Jiangsu Province. A total of 336 valid samples in a questionnaire...

This paper explores the green supply chain management (GSCM) of companies based in the Yangtze River Delta, China. The companies' overall GSCM practice level (LGSCM) is measured by using the data from 165 valid respondents in a questionnaire survey conducted during April and May 2009. The relationships between LGSCM and the classified determinant...

Chinese environmental policies highly relied on the command and control measures in the past, which seems insufficient due to the feasibilities of the policies themselves or relatively weak enforcement capacities. Chinese government has recognized the problem and started to modify its environmental policy framework by adding alternative approaches...

This paper gives a glance of carbon emission status, the latest efforts and policy progress in Japan, China and Korea, and provides an integrative summary of previous discussions of carbon tax policy based on a comprehensive literature overview. By using the information collected from these countries, a comparative analysis is conducted to identify...