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The European Union’s Emission Trading System (EU-ETS) is currently the world’s largest market for trading greenhouse gas (GHG) emission allowances (also referred to as permits or credits), and is the EU’s ‘flagship’ climate change mitigation policy. However, in its first eight years the EU-ETS has not been the driver of domestic EU climate change...

KUC is assisting selected cities, including Surabaya City (Indonesia), Ho Chi Minh City (Viet Nam), Nonthaburi City and Phitsanulok City (Thailand), in evaluating their environmental projects and policies in terms of GHG emissions reduction. KUC undertook a three-week training course on low-carbon city planning and MRV capacity building from JICA...

It has been widely regarded that policies and institutions that are adaptive in nature are better able to deal with the dynamic issues such as environmental degradation and climate change adaptation. However, verifying the veracity of this hypothesis is difficult often due to absence of long experience in climate change adaptation in most countries...

The ongoing negotiations for the future climate regime have clearly indicated the need for both the developed and developing countries to work together in enhancing the adaptation to climate change. While much of the climate change adaptation debate has long been focused on the developing countries, little emphasis has been made on the need for...

Discussions on how to define, design, and implement sustainable development goals (SDG) have taken center stage in the United Nations since the Rio+20 summit. Energy is one of the issues that enjoyed consensus, before and after Rio, as an important area for SDGs to address. Many proposals have been put forward on how SDGs should be formulated and...

地球環境を保全しつつ人類の抱える諸課題の解決を目指す上では、新たな国際的資金メカニズムが必要であると目されて、国際社会での議論が進んでいる。本稿は、この議論を概観することにより、本誌「環境研究」の本郷に収められた諸論考のより良き理解に貢献しようと編まれたものである。 International communitiy has been promoting the argument on future financial mechanism to effectively enhance sustainabale development both in developing and developed countries.This article gives overview of this...

本稿は、気候資金に向けた資金現および資金調達・動員手法についての最近の議論・交渉を踏まえつつ、その課題と今後の展望を論じる。まず、資金調達・動員手法とも関連する気候資金の定義について論じたのち、資金を巡るこれまでの交渉の経緯を概観する。そのあと、俎上に上がっている資金源・調達方法のオプションについての評価を行う。 Tracking back the international negitiation over climate finance in thelast decades, this paperexamines carious approaches to secure and mobilise climate finance. This paper starts with seeral...