Japan's position in international climate policy: Navigating between Kyoto and the APP

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 319-336

  van Asselt, Harro ^a   Kanie, Norichika ^b   Iguchi, Masahiko ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate; Climate governance; Japan; Kyoto Protocol; Post 2012 climate policy; UNFCCC

Indexed keywords

CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; POLICY MAKING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 71349087129     PISSN: 15679764     EISSN: 15731553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10784-009-9098-6     Document Type: Article

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