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This paper presents the main results of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Ipcc, concerning climate change impacts, present and potential vulnerabilities in the biophysical and socioeconomic areas, and the possibilities to affront these through adaptation policies and actions in the Asian Southeast. Risk, vulnerabilities and adaptation options are presented, followed by an assessment of opportunities, resilience, and limits related to adaptation. Section 1.A of First Part characterizes observed impacts, vulnerability, exposure, and present adaptation responses. Section 1.B examines risks and opportunities. In the Second Part, Section 2.A considers the principles for an efficient adaptation, and the links between adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development; Section 2.B is cantered on regional cooperation mechanism on adaptation issues (Apan), as well as collaboration issues on subnational level and within the countries. The paper concludes that the prospective of resilient pathways to sustainable development are related closely to the transformation of economic, social, technological and political decisions and actions that simultaneously enhance the social and economic wellbeing and the responsible management of the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental goods and services (egs) are a thriving market that emerged in the 1990s as a result of international agreements to curb environmental degradation and climate change. What started as a struggle between environmental advocates and trade advocates paved the way for negotiation between two closely interconnected international regimes: climate change and trade. The current international debate on the egs market focuses, on the one hand, on pointing to the poor role that this activity has played in curbing the deterioration of the environment. On the other hand, in the important economic success that the commerce of this type of products is having. Today, the economic spill of the egs trade is just over two trillion dollars and is expected to increase. Australia, Canada, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand,Singapore and the United States are among the 17 most prosperous economies of this type of market. The supremacy in the international competitiveness of the Asia Pacific Rim over this niche provides elements to expect a relative decrease in environmental impact, because this region emits 63% of all greenhouse gases (ghs) that are generated on the planet. This paper analyzes the importance of the bsa market in a world whose main challenge should be to solve environmental deterioration. However, quantitative data to measure environmental deterioration and economic prosperity show that, at least, in the short term, the environment has not benefited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents some of the main arguments related to the use of alternative technologies for generation of electrical energy that have been developed as part of the global climate change mitigation mechanisms. The article focuses on the market of products for generation of solar energy that has had a huge expansion in recent years and, since the People's Republic of China (China) has managed to control large segments of the international market of components and products for generation of solar energy, it has been immersed in commercial disputes. Climate change (cc) is associated with the greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions which are generated in the combustion process; their mitigation becomes a core part of the energy security of the countries with the generation of energy with lower environmental impact resolving, in part, the expansion of the energy demand. The main conclusion in this text is that, in general, the electric energy generated with alternative technologies has created an economic and commercial space of intense competition which translates to new businesses with a bioethical justification associated to the protection of the environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]