This report consists of four main sections. In the first part, it presents data from the national GHG inventories of a number of developing Asian countries, identifies the main sources of GHG emissions from the waste sector, and analyses the national climate strategies of selected countries. Secondly, the report presents data on the potential climate benefits of the 3Rs. It

This is the Summary Report of the International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2009), organised by IGES in Hayama, Japan on 26-27 June 2009.

This report presents a case study of a UNDP GEF Small Grant Project entitled "Mitigation of the effects of the carbon dioxide and other GHG by controlling slash and burn practices," which was conducted in Nepal and which received the gold prize in the 2008 Ryutaro Hashimoto Asia-Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED) Awards.

This latest fact sheet on the current status of CDM in India provides basic data on 420 registered CDM projects as on May 1, 2009. Shows that Maharashtra is the state with largest number of projects, of which over hundred are renewable energy projects.

The Capacity Development and Education (CDE) Project has an opportunity to seek insights through research into the question of how can promote Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) programmes in the Southeast Asia region, a region which faces urgent environmental problems due an incredible rate of economic growth while a considerable percentage of the population are exposed to extreme povert

Most of studies on Indian watershed are either case study based qualitative analysis which mainly focuses on the institutional arrangement of the program or static partial equilibrium econometric analysis of certain behavior of any parameters of the upstream or downstream activities.

This publication is one of the major outputs of the Water Environment Partnership in Asia (WEPA). WEPA aims to strengthen water environmental governance in Asia through the collection and dissemination of information and capacity development of relevant stakeholders in partnership with eleven countries in the region.

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India, and IGES will co-organise a symposium entitled "Partnership between Japan and India Towards a Low-Carbon Economy - Business Opportunities in India: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy" on 21 November 2008 in Yokohama, Japan, with collaborative organisations.

Focussing on energy conservation and on renewable energy sectors whose markets are expected to expand in the future, the symposium informed the audience of the latest policies and market trends in India, as well as to introduce notable business strategies of Japanese and Indian businesses in the two fields.

This paper analyses the development of the Japanese Climate Policy since the Rio summit, including climate policy instruments implemented to date and the recent change of position regarding the introduction of a mandatory emissions trading scheme (ETS) in Japan. Several proposals to introduce a mandatory ETS have been published at both the national and regional levels in the last months.