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The World Resources Institute's Transport Emissions & Social Cost Assessment (TESCA) guide and Excel tool provide a framework for developing countries to quantify transport emissions (covering 9 pollutants and 18 transport modes) and their associated social costs. The process involves data quality analysis, inventory estimation, and the calculation of eco-efficiency indicators to support cost-efficient policy-making, while explicitly addressing the high uncertainties inherent in social cost and health data.

This case study examines the adoption of environmental management practices by Epson (China) Co., Ltd., the China headquarters of Seiko Epson Corporation. It details the company's efforts to implement ISO 14001 certification, reduce office resource consumption, and establish a printer cartridge take-back system modeled after the parent company's Japanese operations.