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 atWSSD

How to achieve innovation?
①providing scientific tools and policy options②promoting capacity building of experts③promoting 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, airand water pollution, and desertification. It also assesses ecosystem services such as water, heat, andcarbon cycling, biodiversity and food production in the Asia-Pacific region
APEIS-Flux
Measurements
GIS Database•Geographical•Socio-economical•Soil & Nutrients

APEIS-MODIS
Network Data

Agriculture Production
Rain fall
Nitrogen Cycling

Monitoring Network

Carbon Cycling
Evapotranspiration
Soil Moisture

Runoff
Evaporation

FukangBeijing

Groundwater
Water & Heat Cycling

TsukubaIntegrated Model

Biomass & Biodiversity

Singapore
Australia
Coverage of MODIS Data

Outputs

Soil moistureSpot 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, CO2, impacts on water resources, and material balances). IEA has also beendeveloping a strategic database providing data for the AIM models and to RISPO to facilitate policy
research.
Regionally Divided Economic-Oriented Society

Estimation of Water Withdrawal Under Different Long-term Scenarios

AIM/Energy/Technology/Country

AIM/Ecosystem/Water/Impact

Abottom-up
technologyselection
model of energyuse
andemissionsat
countryandlocal level

Precipitation
Aset of ecosystem
Sunshinemodels, includinga
vegetationdynamics
LanduseWater resource
model, awaterresourceic
Cropmodel, anagricultural Socio-econom
indicator
Productivity
productivitymodel andImpact onfooddemandahealthimpact model

Temperature

EmissionIntensityof SO2 inChina

Adaptationstrategy

AIM/Bottom-up
Asimpletechnology
selectionmodel for
Asia-Pacificregion

AIM/Material

Environmental
Environburden
mentalBurden Environmental
Industry
GreenPurchaseIndustry
ConsumerRecycle

Environment Fund
WastesAenvironmenteconomyintegrated
model withmaterialbalanceandrecycling
process modules

AIMFamily

Environmental
BurdenEnvironmental Industry(wastemanagement, recycle)
Technologyassessment

Technologyneeds

Researchonnewtechnologies

0Year 2100

AIM/Top-down
Ageneral-equilibriumtypeworldeconomic
model

AIM/Trend
Areduced-form
model toproject China
futuresocioeconomic
Thailand
trends andenvironmental
changeforall
42countries

Global Environment-Economic Harmonization Society

Futureeconomictrend
Futureenvironmental trend

Korea

IndiaJapan

100 101 102 103 (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 beenusing the GPI to make Strategic Policy Options, packages to help decision-making on sustainable
development policy in the region.

8 Sub-themes

Good Practices Inventory

About 100 cases have been analyzed andmore are being collected
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Innovative financing for renewableenergy development
18 NepalCreation of inter-boundary markets forrecyclable materials

Promoting environmental education byNGOsPromoting local/indigenous
knowledge-based sustainable
resource management
Development of environmentally
sustainable transport systems in urban
areas
Promotion of biomass energy

Republicof Korea

China11
Bangladesh
India

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

2

Viet Nam 4
Philippines
Thailand

Malaysia 1

http://www.iges.or. jp/APEIS/RISPO6Japan

1

Improving environmental performanceof small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs)
Facilitating community-based tourism
in protected areas

151Singapore

14Indonesia

A local initiative to utilise economically andenvironmentally 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 todll t t )For the Future APEIS-Synergies with APFED-Ⅱ

APFED Award &Good Practices
Database

Strategic Policy
Research

APFED Lessons
Learned PartnershipAward

APEIS
Phase II

Capacity Building

IEM

Expansionof Network

Knowledge Centre
for Sustainable
Development

IEA

RISPO

Expansionof Network

Thank you/http://www.ecoasia.org/APEIS/