APEIS Project Recent Progress and Future AIM Workshop 2005 11 March 2005, Tsukuba, Japan Yasuo TAKAHASHI (Ministry of the Environment, Japan)
What is APEIS? Asia Pacific Environmental Innovation Strategy Project -Registered as Type II Partnership Initiative at WSSD How to achieve innovation? 1providing scientific tools and policy options 2promoting capacity building of experts 3promoting outreach activities
IEM- Integrated Environmental Monitoring IEM has been developing an integrated monitoring system to detect and monitor environmental disasters and degradation of natural resources such as floods, droughts, dust storms, forest fires, air and water pollution, and desertification. It also assesses ecosystem services such as water, heat, and carbon cycling, biodiversity and food production in the Asia-Pacific region Monitoring Network GIS Database Geographical Socio-economical Soil & Nutrients Soil Moisture APEIS-Flux Measurements Rain fall Runoff APEIS-MODIS Network Data Evapotranspiration Agriculture Production Nitrogen Cycling Carbon Cycling Evaporation Fukang Beijing Tsukuba Water & Heat Cycling Groundwater Biomass & Biodiversity Integrated Model Singapore Coverage of MODIS Data Australia Outputs Soil moisture Spot of forest fires Carbon fixation Flood area Land cover change Crop production
IEA-Integrated Environmental Assessment IEA has been developing the Asia Pacific Integrated Model (AIM), which is a set of integrated socioeconomic models to predict future states in the Asia Pacific region relevant to sustainable development (e.g., energy, CO 2, impacts on water resources, and material balances). IEA has also been developing a strategic database providing data for the AIM models and to RISPO to facilitate policy research. Estimation of Water Withdrawal Under Different Long-term Scenarios Regionally Divided Economic-Oriented Society AIM/Energy/Technology/Country AIM/Ecosystem/Water/Impact Abottom-up technology selection model of energy use and emissions at country and local level Emission Intensity of SO 2in China selection model for Asia-Pacific region Aset of ecosystem models, including a vegetation dynamics model, a water resource model, an agricultural productivity model and a health impact model Temperature Precipitation Sunshine Land use Water resource Socio-economic indicator Crop Productivity Impact on food demand Adaptation strategy AIM/Bottom-up AIM/Top-down Asimple technology AIMFamily A general-equilibriumtype world economic model Year 2100 Global Environment-Economic Harmonization Society AIM/Material Environmental Environ- burden mental Burden Environmental Industry Green Purchase Industry Consumer Environment Fund Aenvironmenteconomy integrated model with material balance and recycling process modules Areduced-form model to project China future socioeconomic Thailand trends and environmental change for all 42 countries Recycle Wastes Environmental Burden Environmental Industry (waste management, recycle) Technology assessment Technology needs Research on newtechnologies AIM/Trend Future economic trend Future environmental trend Korea India Japan 0 10 0 10 1 10 2 10 3 (mm/year) Year 2000 Year 2100
RISPO-Research on Innovative and Strategic Policy Options RISPO has been developing the Good Practices Inventory (GPI), an inventory of local, national, and transnational activities that contribute to sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region. RISPO has been using the GPI to make Strategic Policy Options, packages to help decision-making on sustainable development policy in the region. 8 Sub-themes Innovative financing for renewable energy development Creation of inter-boundary markets for recyclable materials Improving environmental performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) Facilitating community-based tourism in protected areas Promoting environmental education by NGOs Promoting local/indigenous knowledge-based sustainable resource management Development of environmentally sustainable transport systems in urban areas Promotion of biomass energy Good Practices Inventory http://www.iges.or. jp/apeis/rispo Analysis Strategic Policy Options Policy Area Strategy 1 SPO -SPO1 Brief description -SPO2 Background Strategy 2 Critical instruments. Impacts Strategy 3 Evaluation. Implementation issues Applicability&limitation About 100 cases have been analyzed and more are being collected 18 Nepal India 34 1 1 Bangladesh 2 Viet Nam Thailand Malaysia 1 1 Singapore 15 Republic of Korea 6 China 1 Japan 14 Indonesia 4 Philippines A local initiative to utilise economically and environmentally viable indigenous knowledge and practices in coastal resource management (lower central Thailand) Opart Panya & Surachai Raksachart, Mahidol University
APEIS Major Progress -1.Expansion of networks Expanded Participating Countries, Extended Partnerships with international initiatives -2.Mutual benefits from innovation IEM: Ecosystem monitoring with the latest monitoring technology IEA: Projection with the latest modeling RISPO: Innovative environmental policy options (Economic instrument to
For the Future APEIS -Synergies with APFED-Ⅱ APFED Award & Good Practices Database Award Strategic Policy Research APEIS Phase II APFED Lessons Learned Partnership Capacity Building IEM IEA Expansion of Network Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development RISPO Expansion of Network
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