Resources 'Asia Pacific'
Ad hoc Open Ended Working Group to review and assess measures to address the global issue of mercury
At its 25th session, the Governing Council agreed to elaborate a legally binding instrument on mercury, and asked UNEP to convene an intergovernmental negotiating committee with the mandate to…
Many youth green groups actively work in Japan. The Japan for Sustainability Youth-Team's website introduces youth green activities in Japan, including events, articles and networks. In English…
The first meeting of the Steering Committee for the Global Environment Facility medium-sized project "POPs monitoring, reporting and information dissemination using Pollutant Release and…
In preparation for the Copenhagen meeting (COP15) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the end of 2009, Japan had engaged in debate about the country's medium-term greenhouse gas…
Nissan has established a long-term goal of reducing CO2 emissions from new vehicles byapproximately 70% from 2000 levels by 2050. Nissan has introduced its Global CO2 Management Way, QCT-C, to…
Toshiba Group has issued its annual Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report since fiscal year 2004. The CSR Report also incorporated the annual Environmental Report, which dates back to 1998.…
The proposed workshop on public participation in Internet Governance took place on the second day of 3rd Internet Governance Forum, held in Hyderabad, India, 3-6 December 2008.
PRIA is an International Centre for Learning and Promotion of Democratic Governance.It was founded in 1982, in reponse to the realisation that grassroot realities across much of India revealed that…
The GAINS-Asia project has developed a state-of-the-art disciplinary model to assess the co-benefits of air pollution and greenhouse gas emission reductions. The tool allows the interactive…
Policymakers, conservationists and scientists have high hopes that REDD, a mechanism for compensating countries for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, will spur a massive…
