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  • Global Environment Centre Foundation

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    Japan
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    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Forestry
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    The Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC) is an entity that supports the UNEP’s International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC), based in Japan.

  • Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth

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    Renewable energy
    Energy efficiency
    Industry
    Transport
    Carbon fixation and abatement

    The Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE) was established as a centre of excellence to develop innovative environmental technologies by the Japanese Government in 1990.

  • Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center

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    Renewable energy
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    Industry
    Infrastructure and Urban planning
    Transport
    Waste management
    Water

    The Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center, Japan (OECC) is a non-governmental organization supported by the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, promoting international cooperation activities related to climate change, global environment conservation, research, capacity building, and support

  • Innovation and Diffusion of Green Technologies: The Role of Intellectual Property and Other Enabling Factors

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    Effective responses to climate change require efforts by both the public and private sectors to develop and disseminate new environmentally sound technologies (ESTs) on a global scale, as well as to adapt them to local needs. However, due to a number of market failures and specific uncertainties, the spread of green technologies is less than optimal, which necessitates additional incentives. Based on a review of recent literature, the present Global Challenges

  • NAMA Guidebook (3rd edition)

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    Mitigation
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    Cross-sectoral

    In the absence of specific guidelines from the UNFCCC on how to develop NAMAs, implementing organizations, donors, and host countries have been formulating NAMAs in a trial-and-error basis. By extracting lessons from these experiences, the previous version of this guidebook introduced basic elements of NAMAs and also different approaches for NAMA-related decisions.