Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

ISAP2025 The 17th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific “Our World in Flux: How to Shape a Sustainable Future through Just Transition”

Why the Second Trump Administration Could Struggle to Undermine Domestic Climate Policies: Obstacles to Backsliding

UNFCCC COP29

IGES Plastic Focus: Tackling Pollution and Advancing Circular Solutions

IGES and Climate Security

1.5C Lifestyles

ISAP2025 The 17th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific “Our World in Flux: How to Shape a Sustainable Future through Just Transition”

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is set to host the 17th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2025). This year, the Plenary Sessions will be held on Tuesday, 29 July 2025 at Pacifico Yokohama as a...

Project Updated : March 2025

Emission Quantification Tool (EQT): A Pathway to Climate-Friendly Waste Solutions

The Emission Quantification Tool (EQT) was developed by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) as a science-based tool designed to empower policymakers and practitioners to estimate emissions, plan climate-friendly systems, and...

Ending Plastic Pollution: Spotlight on East and Southeast Asia

Background Plastic pollution is a global environmental issue. East and Southeast Asia are of strategic importance in the fight against plastic pollution, the rivers and coastlines of which are some of the most affected by plastic pollution. The...

Exploring Nature Positive Futures

Nature Positive is a global societal goal defined as ‘halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 on a 2020 baseline, and achieve full recovery by 2050’, in line with the mission of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Nature Positive...

Project Updated : March 2025

IGES Plastic Focus: Tackling Pollution and Advancing Circular Solutions

Plastic Pollution as a Global Agenda Nearly a decade has passed since plastic pollution and its countermeasures began to be recognised as a major global agenda. A key turning point in this recognition was the 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur...

Project Updated : March 2025

Environment Research and Technology Development Fund 1CN-2206 (FY2022-2024) - Research on the national long-term roadmap to synergise mitigation and adaptation towards a net zero and resilient ASEAN

Towards the establishment of a net-zero and resilient ASEAN Community as indicated by the ASEAN Climate Vision 2050, IGES is conducting a study on the formulation of a long-term roadmap to promote integrated transition of mitigation and adaptation in...

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Climate Change

Ecosystems

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Green Economy

Sustainable Consumption and Production

Sustainable Societies

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