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In this paper we pointed out a hidden inequality in accounting for trade-related emissions in the presence of border carbon adjustment. Under a domestic carbon pricing policy, producers pay for the carbon costs in exchange for the right to emit. Under border carbon adjustment, however, the exporting country pays for the carbon costs of their...

The standing and competitiveness of a country is largely determined by how the development and growth of its cities are managed. This paper examines the existing environmental situation in Indian cities with the objective of focusing on the emerging urban environmental crisis, which is receiving far less attention than issues such as global warming...

Biofuels have been promoted in many Indian states as part of their rural development strategies, long before the recent finalisation of India’s national policy on biofuels, in order to generate employment and produce fuel locally using existing wastelands. To promote employment, some states have promoted biofuels using nationally sponsored...

インドでは最近、バイオ燃料に関する国家政策が最終決定されたが、多くの州では以前から、雇用創出や荒地を利用した燃料生産を目的とする農村開発政策の一環としてバイオ燃料が推進されてきた。雇用の促進に関しては、一部の州で全国農村雇用保障制度等の政府支援プログラムを活用したバイオ燃料の推進が図られており、同制度は、小規模農家や土地を持たない労働者に対して年間最低100日間の雇用保障を目標としている。また、州政府には、現地のニーズに応じた独自の開発プロジェクトを策定する柔軟性が与えられており、バイオ燃料作物の開発に焦点を当てたプロジェクトが実施されているところもある。 最も注目されているバイオ燃料作物はジャトロファであるが、他にクロヨナ等の作物を用いた取り組みも進められている...

HLPF2019 IGESSide Event “From Science to Implementation: Strengthening the Science Policy Interface (SPI) to Integrate Climate Change, Resilience, and the SDGs” on 11thJuly 2019, UNHQ, NY

IGES made intervention at the UNFCCC Bonn Conference in March 2014. Technical Expert Meeting (TEM) took place as part of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action 2-4 Workstream 2. The intervention was on some lessons learnt from the project IGES KRC conducted in India promoting low carbon technology in Small and Medium...

The Kyoto Protocol required only developed countries to reduce their emissions but did not require developing countries to do so, and this created an asymmetric condition for developed and developing countries to implement domestic climate policies. Implementing a domestic climate policy in developed countries, such as an emission trading system or...

「アジアの環境重大ニュース」は、IGESが1998年の設立以来、その研究ネットワークを生かして毎年末に発表しているものである。2010年度版では、アジアにおける重要な環境トピックとして「地球温暖化」「生物多様性」「持続可能な消費と生産」の3つに焦点を当てて、アジア太平洋地域の国際機関・21カ国からニュースを収集した。 Remarks: English version is available at: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=3144

With the goal of reporting environmental issues and actions on the formation of sustainable societies in the Asia-Pacific region, since 1998 the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has gathered and compiled news on environmental issues and policies and released them annually as the top environmental news in the Asia-Pacific. This...

The 2009 edition of "Top News on the Environment in Asia" highlights three areas of significance for Asia under the section headings Global Warming, Biodiversity, and Sustainable Consumption and Production, and reports the important developments of 2009 as selected, for their own countries and for the region, by environment experts from...