Dr.
Peter KING
Former Staff (from Jan 2005 - Oct 2023 )
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In Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
This chapter introduces Part B of GEO-6: Policies, Goals, Objectives and Environmental Governance: An Assessment of Their Effectiveness.
Policy Report
The Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is the result of a consultative and participatory process to prepare an independent assessment of the state of the environment, the effectiveness of the policy response in addressing environmental challenges and the possible pathways to achieving various internationally agreed environmental goals. The GEO is a...
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In Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
The composition of Earth’s atmosphere is one of the major determinants of a healthy planet, influencing the climate, ecosystems and human health. This is highlighted by the existence of a direct or indirect link between the challenges of air pollution, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, persistent bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT)...
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In Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
The importance of good policy design cannot be overstressed. Some common elements are: i. setting a long-term vision and avoiding crisis-mode policy decisions, through inclusive, participatory design processes; ii. establishing a baseline, quantified targets and milestones; iii. conducting ex ante and ex post cost–benefit or costeffectiveness...
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In Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
This chapter presents a set of conclusions for Part B of the sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6), reached through the findings of the previous chapters about policy effectiveness (Chapters 10-17). It summarizes for policymakers what is known to work best and why, including a synthesized discussion of the limitations of the evidence available...
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In Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the current Land and Soil policy framework and the related shortcomings, especially in terms of policy cohesion and implementation, as well as overall effectiveness. The subsequent sections present case studies of different sets of legal and policy instruments, economic tools and incentives, as well...
Commissioned Report
This is a final report on the project for promoting Asian regional collaboration on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), under a lump-sum contract with Ministry of the Environment, Japan in FY 2018. The project consists of three components: i) Study on policy and implementation of country EIA system in two Asian countries, namely, Malaysia and...
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In Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
This chapter evaluates the capacity of environmental policies to achieve transformational change in addressing cross-cutting global sustainable development challenges. To this end, the chapter addresses the major challenges of adapting socioeconomic systems to climate change, creating a sustainable agricultural and food production system...
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In Global Environment Outlook - GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, together with a range of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), set an ambitious long-term vision for the universal pursuit of sustainable development through economic, social, environmental and institutional transformation (Chapter 20). Although progress has been made in managing some...
Commissioned Report
平成27年11月、日本では「気候変動の影響への適応計画」が閣議決定された。開発途上国の適応計画を支援することは日本の適応計画の戦略の一つとして盛り込まれており、科学的知見に基づいた有効な計画策定の支援を行うこととしている。本年度の事業においては、「平成27年度適応イニシアティブ推進のための地域横断的人材育成等に向けた調査・検討業務」および「平成28 年度および平成29年度アジア太平洋地域における気候変動適応分野の知見共有、人材育成支援業務」を通じて構築した気候変動影響評価の手法のアップスケールや、適応の政策や事業化に貢献するツール開発や能力向上を目的とした人材育成、知見共有等を行うことを目的とし、さらに、我が国が国連気候変動枠組条約第22 回締約国会議（UNFCCC COP22...
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