Inequality in Asia and the Pacific: Trends, Drivers and Policy Implications

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-113
Author(s):  
Ravi Kanbur ◽  
Kanbur Rhee ◽  
Juzhong Zhuang ◽  
Hwok-Aun Lee ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Pacific

Policy implications of protected area discourse in the Pacific islands

Marine Policy ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.Y. Bartlett ◽  
T. Maltali ◽  
G. Petro ◽  
P. Valentine
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Pacific

scholarly journals Contribution of Renewable Energy Consumption to CO2 Emission Mitigation: A Comparative Analysis from a Global Geographic Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3853
Author(s):  
Junsong Jia ◽  
Jing Lei ◽  
Chundi Chen ◽  
Xu Song ◽  
Yexi Zhong
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Emission Mitigation ◽  
Renewable Energy Consumption ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Geographic Perspective

Renewable energy consumption (REC) has an important significance in mitigating CO2 emissions. However, currently, few scientists have analyzed the underlying impact of REC from a global geographic perspective. Thus, here, we divide the world into seven regions to study this impact during the period 1971–2016 using the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI). These regions were East Asia and the Pacific (EAP), Europe and Central Asia (ECA), Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Middle East and North Africa (MENA), North America (NA), South Asia (SA), and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The results showed that ECA had the most obviously mitigating effect of −10.13%, followed by NA and MENA (−3.91% and −3.87%, respectively). Inversely, EAP had the largest driving effect of 4.12%, followed by SA (3.43%) and the others. Globally, REC had an overall mitigating contribution of −11.04% to total CO2 change. These results indicate that it is still important to exploit and utilize renewable energy, especially in presently developing or underdeveloped countries. Moreover, for some countries at a certain stage, their REC effects were negative, but, concurrently, their energy intensity effects were positive. These results show that some developing countries recently reduced carbon emissions only by extensively using renewable energy, not by enhancing energy-use efficiency. Finally, some policy implications for reducing CO2 in different countries are recommended.

scholarly journals Channels of small-arms proliferation: Policy implications for Asia-Pacific

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefanie Koorey ◽  
Stefan Markowski ◽  
Peter Hall ◽  
Jurgen Brauer
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
South And Southeast Asia ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Effective Policy

To develop effective policy to reduce the proliferation of illicit small arms in developing countries, it is necessary to have a good understanding of how these weapons are distributed and how illicit stockpiles are formed. This article captures structural characteristics of small-arms supply-chains and, in particular, stylizes the different mechanisms for funneling small arms to illicit users. The article draws on the experience of countries in South and Southeast Asia and of the Melanesian states of the Pacific. By focusing on the structural complexity of supply chains, the article highlights challenges that multichannel supply chains pose for governments in developing countries that seek to curb the flow of small arms into illicit stocks.

scholarly journals The Meanings of Work in Contemporary Palau: Policy Implications of Globalization in the Pacific

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen L. Nero ◽  
Fermina Brel Murray ◽  
Michael L. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implications ◽  
The Pacific

Financialization of nature and climate change policy: implications for mining-impacted Afro-Colombian communities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamra L Gilbertson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Change Mitigation

Abstract The use of financial instruments for climate change mitigation puts communities and nature at risk. Success is measured by capital accumulation rather than the ability to protect or enhance human and non-human nature. From cap and trade programmes that allow corporations to buy and sell ‘units’ of pollution on financialized markets, to forest offset credits, the financialization of nature presupposes the separation and quantification of the Earth’s cycles and functions with carbon, water, and biodiversity. Financialization causes these cycles to be treated as units to be sold in financial and speculation markets. This article reviews the theoretical frameworks of financialization of nature and proliferating climate change policies. I explore the flaws of the new carbon pricing and carbon tax platform in Colombia and its impacts on Afro-Colombian communities in the coal mining region of Cesar, in northeast Caribbean and related Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) projects on the Pacific coast of Colombia.

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