We would like to gratefully thank and acknowledge the following organizations (in the order of receiving the contribution), whose financial support is helping to make this international climate policy conference a success.

Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), The Hague

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan

Japanese Ministry of the Environment, Tokyo

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Kanagawa, Japan