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The following topical collection, entitled "Air Pollution Control and Sustainable Development: Innovative Methods and Policy Implications," focuses on the intersection of innovative methods of air quality management and the pursuit of sustainable development. This topical collection brings...
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In its first Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the Paris Agreement, the Philippines committed to a GHG emissions reduction/avoidance of 75 percent for the period 2020 to 2030, referenced against a projected business-as-usual cumulative emission for the same period. However, the numbers...
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According to official statements, the main purpose of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue ("Quad") is to intensify cooperation between the four partner countries - Australia, India, Japan and the United States - in tackling urgent challenges in the Indo-Pacific region. These include climate...
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inferences about the level of awareness of the Filipino people on ASEAN; their perceived problems confronting the Philippines and … ASEAN; and their aspirations, concerns, and hopes for the association. It reveals moderate familiarity about ASEAN, as well … as modest identification as ASEAN citizens, which improves with age and experience. There is also a general sentiment …
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This study analyses the creation and implementation of rules in preferential trade agreements concerning government procurement, competition, environment and labour issues - all qualified as new topics to the international negotiations agenda on trade. It aims at identifying the main trends in...
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The study suggests an approach to reduce India's sensitive list under SAFTA. The concept of Revealed Comparative Advantage has been used to pair the RCAs for products on India's sensitive list with the corresponding RCAs of the SAARC countries. Four categories of items are generated based on...
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Fires are the most costly preventable emergency in the Philippines but are relatively unstudied. A 2012 study done by … the Department of Health - Health Emergency Management Staff (DOH-HEMS) revealed that fires constituted 39 percent of all … injuries. The epidemiology of fires and fire-related casualties in the Philippines from 2010 to 2012 was assessed.All fires …
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Biodiversity can sometimes only be preserved if natural habitats are excluded from human uses. Such protection measures generate positive externalities at the global scale. This holds especially for protection in developing countries that host great parts of global biodiversity. For...
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The integration of the concept of environment, social, and governance (ESG) into trade and investment to contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is becoming a new consensus. ESG considerations are becoming crucial in national and regional policies for sustainable development...
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architecture is the ASEAN centrality, the principle that directs ASEAN to be at the center of every mechanism and discussion … thrown some weights over the region, leaving the credibility of ASEAN's centrality in question. For instance, the global … global multipolarity influences ASEAN, this paper investigates how the shifting global geopolitical landscape, characterized …
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