S. Korean Updates: KECO to support medium and small-sized companies preparing for cap-and-trade system

KECO to support medium and small-sized companies preparing for cap-and-trade system

Korea Environment Corporation (KECO) under the Ministry of Environment announced on the 7^th that KECO is pursuing a project supporting medium and small-sized companies that are willing to participate in greenhouse gas reduction activity. KECO will support companies in establishing and evaluating greenhouse gas inventory and verifying the inventory by a third party.

The project is to support companies that are not subject to target management system. KECO will provide consultation for establishing the greenhouse gas inventory, support constructing and evaluating greenhouse gas inventory and assist a third party verification on the greenhouse gas inventory.

First, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Certification Center of KECO will select companies among the applicants and conclude contract for project implementation. Then, KECO will support establishing and evaluating inventory or provide the third party verification on the emissions of existing inventory.

Education and fee for verification & certification will be supported by KECO.  

〈Process of Project〉

		Receive application from companies
	Companies with existing inventory			Companies without existing inventory
					Select companies and notify
					Conclude agreement for the project
					a. Consultation on greenhouse gas inventory establishment b. Greenhouse gas inventory construction
Verification on greenhouse gas emissions by a third party					Evaluation on greenhouse gas inventory

  

As designation standard for target management system is strengthened and cap-and-trade system will be put into effect from 2015, KECO’s intention is to provide support in advance to the medium and small-sized companies where they have difficulties in preparing for the greenhouse gas emissions, prior to the cap-and-trade system.

To improve the capabilities of domestic companies and local governments against the climate change, KECO had performed and completed support & evaluation and verification & certification on greenhouse gas inventory of six companies and two local governments (2099-2011).     

Application for the project is possible via e-mail or (hessall@keco.or.kr) or by sending mail to GHG Certification Center by August 31.

More information on the project is available at KECO website (http://www.keco.or.kr) or the center website (http://doe.keco.or.kr).  

KECO expects the project of establishing greenhouse gas inventory will help save a great deal of expense in the future for the companies that are entitled to target management system.

Source: http://eng.me.go.kr/board.do?method=view&docSeq=10665&bbsCode=new_news

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New Book: Environmental policy and sustainable development in China by Paul G. Harris

Environmental policy and sustainable development in China
Hong Kong in global context

Author/Editor(s): Paul G. Harris

Format: Hardback , 304 pages , 240 x 172 mm

ISBN: 9781447305088

Published:16 May 2012

 

About This Book

"Rich communities still struggle between development and environment - Hong Kong's story provides an example of how Chinese cities may evolve. Professor Harris gives us a thorough analysis of the challenge of achieving sustainability." Christine Loh, Civic Exchange, Hong Kong

"Internationally renowned for his expertise in China and sustainable development, Paul Harris has written another marvellous book. The gap between the promise and practice of sustainable development in Hong Kong is growing - but so is the potential. Harris argues powerfully that the talents and resources available to Hong Kong could put it in the first rank of sustainable cities, and that this is vital not only for Hong Kong and China but for the world as a whole. Environmental policy and sustainable development in China is written primarily for undergraduate students, but its relevance ranges far and wide. Not to be missed." Andrew Dobson, University of Keele

"This is an invaluable text for students of sustainable development policies in China and Hong Kong. Offering detailed studies on a range of issues, Harris provides an extremely useful resource for students and researchers alike." Gabriela Kütting, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Drawing on practices and theories of sustainability, Environmental policy and sustainable development in China explores the prospects for achieving environmentally benign economic and social development in China and beyond. Using the Chinese 'world city' of Hong Kong as a backdrop and case study, it introduces major conceptions of sustainability, describes historical and political contexts for environmental policymaking, and analyses key challenges related to sustainable development, including air pollution, water quality, waste, transport and climate change. The book will be a valuable and unique resource for students, teachers and readers interested in environmental policy, sustainable development and ecological governance, especially in China and Hong Kong.
All of the author's royalties from sales of this book will be donated by Policy Press to Friends of the Earth (Hong Kong) and WWF (Hong Kong).

For more information: http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781447305088&sf1=keyword&st1=Environmental+Policy+and+Sustainable+Development+in+China%3A+&m=1&dc=4

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New Book: Environmental Rights by Steve Vanderheiden

• Imprint: Ashgate
• Published: August 2012
• Format: 244 x 169 mm
• Extent: 574 pages
• Binding: Hardback
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-2296-9
• Price : £155.00 » Website price: £139.50
• BL Reference: 344'.046-dc23
• LoC Control No: 2011945787

The essays selected for this volume present critical viewpoints from the debate about the need to establish rights on behalf of greater environmental protection.

Three main areas for developing environmental rights are surveyed, including: extensionist theories that link existing rights (for example to subsistence or territory) to threats of harm from exacerbated resource scarcity, pollution or rapid environmental change; proposals for rights to specified environmental goods or services, such as rights to a safe environment and the capacity to assimilate greenhouse gas emissions; and rights that protect the interests of parties not currently recognized as having rights, including nonhuman subjects, natural objects and future generations.

This volume captures the potential for and primary challenges to the development of rights as instruments for safeguarding the planet's life-support capacities and features proposals and analyses which argue the need to create an avenue of recourse against ecological degradation, whether on behalf of human or nonhuman right holders.

Contents: Introduction; Part I Human Rights: General: Environmental injustice and human rights abuse: the states, MNCs, and repression of minority groups in the world system, Francis O. Adeola; Can communal goods be human rights?, Jeremy Waldron; Philosophical issues in international environmental law, James Nickel and Daniel Magraw. Part II Human Rights and Climate Change: Greenhouse development rights: a proposal for a fair global climate treaty, Paul Baer, with Tom Athanasiou, Sivan Kartha and Eric Kemp-Benedict; Does anthropogenic climate change violate human rights?, Derek Bell; Human rights, responsibilities, and climate change, Simon Caney; Human rights versus emissions rights: climate justice and the equitable distribution of ecological space, Tim Hayward; Competing claims: human rights and climate harms, Stephen Humphreys; Human rights, climate change, and the trillionth ton, Henry Shue; Climate change, environmental rights, and emission shares, Steve Vanderheiden. Part III Rights of Nonhumans, Environment and Futurity: The rights of animals and unborn generations, Joel Feinberg; The case for biotic rights, James A. Nash; Should trees have legal standing? - toward legal rights for natural objects, Christopher D. Stone; On future generations' future rights, Axel Gosseries; The right to a green future: human rights, environmentalism, and intergenerational justice, Richard P. Hiskes; Our rights and obligations to future generations for the environment, Edith Brown Weiss; Contemporary property rights, Lockean provisos, and the interests of future generations, Clark Wolf. Part IV Rights to a Safe Environment: Toward a constitutionally protected environment, John Y. Pearson Jr; Environmental rights: European fact or English fiction?, Christopher Miller; Rights and responsibilities on the home planet, Holmes Rolston III; Human rights, environmental rights, and the right to environment, Dinah Shelton; Name index.

About the Editor: Steve Vanderheiden is Associate Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder as well as Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He researches normative political theory and environmental politics and published Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change, Oxford University Press, 2008 and Political Theory and Global Climate Change, MIT Press, 2008.

For more information: http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=10614&edition_id=14087

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International Wetland Symposium-Nepal (IWS-Nepal) 2012, 7 – 9 November 2012, Nepal

Announcement of the International Wetland Symposium-Nepal (IWS-Nepal) 2012

Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation (MFSC)/Conservation and Sustainable Use of Wetlands in Nepal (CSUWN) in collaboration with International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC), WaterAid (WaterAid) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is proud to announce the hosting of the International Wetland Symposium scheduled in Nepal during 7 – 9 November 2012.

The main aim of IWS-Nepal is to provide a platform for knowledge sharing between national and international researchers and practitioners engaged in the areas of wetlands conservation and management and to provide an opportunity to enhance technical understanding on contemporary issues through plenary discussions. Additionally, the symposium also aims to document best practices and lessons learned in the above mentioned areas.

We hope that through this Symposium, partnership and networking among policy makers, practitioners and researchers will be established across the globe. 

Major Themes 

The four focal themes of the symposium are: 

a. Wetland and Biodiversity

b. Wetland and Ecosystem Services

c. Wetland and Climate Change

d. Wetland Governance

Venue 

Pokhara, Kaski district, Nepal 

Important Dates 

Announcement and call for papers 12 April 2012

Deadline for abstracts 15 July 2012

First notice to participants 15 Aug 2012

Deadline for full paper submission 15 Sept 2012

Deadline for presentation slide submission 1 Oct 2012

Symposium Contacts 

Samridhi Rijal

Email: samridhi@wetlands.org.np

Shalu Adhikari 

Email: shalu@wetlands.org.np

* For more information about IWS please download the brochure below

Brochure of IWS.pdf

Website: http://www.wetlands.org.np/announcement/

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Seminar on "Climate Change, Personal Emissions Trading and China: Needs for Individual Action"

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Date	2012-08-20
Time	13:00 - 14:30
E-mail	pyhtang@ied.edu.hk
Tel	29488944
Venue	Room B4-1/F-37, HKIEd (Tai Po Campus)

Enquiry The Centre for Governance and Citizenship (CGC) of The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) is presenting to you the CGC Postgraduate Student Seminar Series on Climate Change, Personal Emissions Trading and China: Needs for Individual Action by Mr. Elias MELE, on 20th August 2012 (Monday),  1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Room B4-1/F-37, HKIEd. This presentation illustrates a potential solution to the failed responses to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change: empowering individuals in the task to cut emissions. Via a personal emissions trading scheme (PETS) individuals would be responsible for their emissions. Apart from mitigating emissions, PETS can decrease social inequalities and enhance the active participation of individuals in the political affairs that is one of the bases for a real democracy. Because of this, PETS can be considered to redress some of the key-issues of China which is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and is experiencing growing social inequalities. Elias MELE (BA, MA, Msc in political science and international relations) is a Doctoral Candidate at the HKIEd. Before joining HKIEd he worked at the European Parliament and at the CIPI foundation in Bruxelles in the field of climate change and environmental policy. He also worked as teaching assistant (global sustainability) at the University of Siena (Italy). He has published in the Economology Journal and in the European Studies Papers Series. His main interests are climate change and environmental policy, global and distributive justice, sustainable development and democracy.  Online Registration: http://www.ied.edu.hk/cgc/view.php?secid=293&id=669&act=regform For details please refer to the poster attached. For enquiries, please contact Miss Peggy TANG at 2948-8944 or by email atpyhtang@ied.edu.hk.

Source and online registration:
http://www.ied.edu.hk/cgc/view.php?m=293&secid=293&id=669

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New Book: E-Waste Management - From Waste to Resource by Klaus Hieronymi, Ramzy Kahhat, Eric Williams

E-Waste Management - From Waste to Resource
Edited by Klaus Hieronymi, Ramzy Kahhat, Eric Williams

Published 22nd May 2012 by Routledge – 272 pages


Description
The landscape of electronic waste, e-waste, management is changing dramatically. Besides a rapidly increasing world population, globalization is driving the demand for products, resulting in rising prices for many materials. Absolute scarcity looms for some special resources such as indium. Used electronic products and recyclable materials are increasingly crisscrossing the globe. This is creating both - opportunities and challenges for e-waste management.

This focuses on the current and future trends, technologies and regulations for reusable and recyclable e-waste worldwide. It compares international e-waste management perspectives and regulations under a view that includes the environmental, social and economic aspects of the different linked systems. It overviews the current macro-economic trends from material demand to international policy to waste scavenging, examines particular materials and product streams in detail and explores the future for e-waste and its’ management considering technology progress, improving end-of-lifecycle designs, policy and sustainability perspectives. To achieve this, the volume has been divided in twelve chapters that cover three major themes:

holistic view of the global e-waste situation
current reserve supply chain and management of used electronics, including flows, solutions, policies and regulations
future perspectives and solutions for a sustainable e-waste management.
The emphasis of the book is mainly on the dramatic change of the entire e-waste sector from the cheapest way of getting rid of e-waste in an environmental sound way to how e-waste can help to reduce excavation of new substances and lead to a sustainable economy.

It is an ideal resource for policy-makers, waste managers and researchers involved in the design and implementation of e-waste.

Website: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781849714020/

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