New or updated projects
Resource Security and Wildlife Trade - Timber
This project aims to contribute to the overall goal of the sustainable management of the timber trade. It will focus on improvements to the coordinati...
Japanese black bear conservation
The Japanese (Asiatic) black bear is the largest mammal found on Japan’s 3 major islands - Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku. But habitat loss, hunting and r...
Supporting Conservation of Asian Forests
Japan has close links with the timber trade in Indonesia and the Russian Far East. Both these areas have lost vast areas of forest to meet the demands...
Evaluation of the Nansei Shoto Ecoregion
Nansei Shoto, a chain of sub-tropical islands located in the Southern end of Japan, is rich in endemic and sub-endemic fauna and flora. From a biodive...
Climate Change Public Outreach
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new assessment report on climate change in 2007. This report highlights the ongoing ...
Future Framework Negotiations
This project is a development of a previous project (JP0059, Kyoto Protocol). Now that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Ass...
Corporate Partnership on Climate Change
To keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, a significant reduction in global CO2 emissions is n...
Enhancing Domestic Climate Policy
There is now a widespread acknowledgement of the need to keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels...
Nansei Shoto Archipelao, Japan
The Nansei Shoto Archipelago consists of numerous islands in the western Pacific Ocean between southern Japan and Taiwan. The larger of these islands ...
Choosing environmentally friendly seafood in Japan
As one of the biggest producers and importers of seafood, Japan can no longer ignore the overfishing and the depletion of world fish stocks. Realizing...