NOTE

1. The Green Aid Plan is an environmental action program of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan.
2. Japan Program is a basic framework in Japan for AIJ under the pilot phase in the context of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (started in November 1995)
3. FAO, State of the World's Forest 1997
4. UNEP, Global Biodiversity Assessment (1995)
5. Prominent among the candidates are the Philippines and Malaysia, which possess great biodiversity on the brink of destruction.
6. One acre equals approximately 4,047 m2.
7. UNEP, IUCN etc., Reefs at Risk (1993) ICRI
8. The International Coral Reef Initiative, developed from the Japan-United States Common Agenda, as an effort to conserve coral reefs. Under the auspices of the IRCI, the International Coral Reef Workshop was held in the Philippines during May of 1995. The ICRI promotes regional programs divided into six regions throughout the world. Japan plays a leading role in the East Asian region, and in February 1997 Japan hosted the second ICRI Regional Workshop for East Asian Seas in Okinawa (participants included Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
9. & 10. FAO, State of the World's Forest 1997.

11. WHO, UNICEF, Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Monitoring Report 1996.

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