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The objective of this project is to answer the question of "how business/industry can realise a sustainable society". To attain this objective, two goals were set: (1) to identify promising business models for realising a sustainable society and develop relevant methods to quantify their potential while proposing masures to promote such businesses...

This report presents the results of IGES research on public timber procurement policy to date. It includes a comparative analysis between Japan’s policy and those of several European countries. In addition to providing recommendations for further strengthening Japan’s policy, the report identifies a generic set of elements that public timber...

This book documents the environmental, technological and policy aspects for establishing industrial clusters in the urban-rural fringe areas of India, Japan, Thailand and Vietnam as a strategic approach for integrated economic and environmental planning.

Archive of a booklet with a good reputation for providing a plain and easy-to-understand description of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and other Kyoto mechanisms. This book has been newly published as "CDM in Charts". http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=835 Remarks: This book is published by IGES as part of the Integrated...

Summary of the book "Asian Aspirations for Climate Regime Beyond 2012" (Report of the second round of "The Asia-Pacific Consultations on Climate Regime Beyond 2012" in 2006) in Japanese. 本報告書は、2006年11月にIGESが発行した「Asian Aspirations for Climate Regime Beyond 2012」の内容を抄訳したものである。本報告書では、まず、2012年以降の国際枠組みに対するアジア諸国の視点について紹介し、続いて、主要テーマであるエネルギー安全保障と持続可能な開発...

The results of this study indicate that Kathmandu Valley's motorized travel demand increased 8.7 fold in 2004 from nearly one billion passenger-km in 1989. It suggests that the demand will increase to 27 billion passenger-km by 2025. Despite the drastic increase, the modal share of public and private transport modes have changed little since 1989...