Ways to Achieve Green Asia
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the environment and climate change in Asia. It first gives an overview of the environmental challenges facing the region and summarizes the economic impacts
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Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings
The global report Hidden cities: unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings is one important component of the overall WHO and UN-HABITAT strategy to strengthen the response of the local, national and global health communities to reduce health inequities in an increasingly urbanized world.
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Developing national REDD-plus systems: progress challenges and ways forward
<p>The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is monitoring the development of national REDD-plus systems in selected countries.
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CDM in charts
"CDM in CHARTS" is a booklet with a good reputation for providing a straightforward and easy-to-understand description of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).
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Towards CDM reform
This report aims to propose ideas for CDM reform, targeting international negotiators of the CDM. The Market Mechanism Group of IGES organised the IGES CDM Capacity Building Kyoto General Meeting in order to discuss, among other items, ideas for CDM reform This report presents the findings of the meeting, based mostly on materials presented by IGES researchers at the meeting. For full text:
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Sustainable consumption and production in the Asia-Pacific region
Thispaper explores issues in sustainable consumption and production (SCP) in the Asia-Pacific region and provides unique insights on stakeholder roles, natural resources, and transboundary issues in light of SCP.
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Enhancing low-carbon development through international co-operation between cities in Japan and in Asian developing countries
Local governments play an important role in promoting low-carbon development; however their role could be significantly enhanced by greater international co-operation between cities. There
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Renewable energy: a strategic policy for sustainable development
There is ample evidence of underproduction of renewable energy across the world, in spite of there being the necessary resources to produce RE, including technology and finance. It seems politicians and law-makers have yet to be persuaded about the importance of renewable energy to solve the problem of
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Carbon emissions embodied in international trade: an assessment from the Asian perspective
This report is based on IGES initiated research to assess embodied emissions in international trade, with particular focus on Asian countries. Part I focuses on the assessment of emissions embodied in multilateral trade in Asian countries and different responsibility principles for the generation of national green house gas inventories.
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Enhancing customs collaboration to combat the trade in illegal timber
This report builds on the initiatives of the Asia Forest Partnership and East Asia and Pacific FLEG to promote cooperation among Customs, Forestry and other authorities to reduce the trade of illegal wood products.
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Interlinkages in climate change: vulnerability of a mitigation strategy?
Biofuels have been promoted as a way to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Besides the claim of mitigating climate