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The policy brief Proposals to Strengthen Japan's Domestic Measures and Regional Cooperation on Stable and Environmentally Sound Plastic Scrap Recycling: Response to China's ban on imports of plastic scrap recommends policymakers in Asia to develop a uniform, standardized, and transparent trade standards for plastic scrap in the region through international cooperation, and to establish environmentally sound long-term material recycling routes.

The paper Transboundary Impacts of Climate Change in Asia: Making a case for regional adaptation planning and cooperation aims to address the transboundary impacts of climate change. It emphasizes the significance of regional cooperation to strengthen the collective adaptation solutions to address the impacts of climate change on transboundary natural resources and other teleconnections.

Proactive policies to protect and restore the health of the world’s coral reefs could generate a substantial economic gain, provide important societal benefits, including to local communities, and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This study presents new analysis of the value, costs and benefits of the coral reef economy to highlight that shifting the trajectory of coral reef health from one of continuing decline towards a healthy state could unlock tens of billions of dollars in additional value.

Northeast Asia Carbon Markets and Trade Connections published by Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) in collaboration with ICTSD focuses on carbon pricing and the linking of carbon pricing systems as a potential catalyst for increased trade relationships, and explores how the benefits from linking can be heavily impacted by trade relationships and competitiveness concerns within the economies of China, Japan, and Korea.

The report introduces the different approaches to carbon pricing and linking currently being used by the three countries, explains the benefits and challenges of linking different carbon pricing systems, and proposes ways to deepen integration of carbon pricing and trade policies to promote regional carbon market linkage as well as increase trade between all three countries.

This Regional Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services for Europe and Central Asia represents the state of knowledge about the Europe and Central Asia region and subregions.