Kaoru AKAHOSHI

The ACP White Paper 2020 offers policymakers pragmatic recommendations on how they can mobilise finance, strengthen policies, and build capacities to implement at scale many of the 25 solutions in UNEP’s Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions.

Asia and the Pacific’s unrelenting industrial development has been a driving force in the economic growth of scores of countries in the region and beyond. This shift has led to greater prosperity, increased urbanization and sustained population growth. Yet as the region has become the “world’s factory”, it is increasingly realizing not only the...

アジア太平洋地域における大気汚染の現状と具体的な政策措置について科学的見地から包括的に分析した初めての評価報告書「Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions」（Summary）の日本語仮訳版（翻訳：IGES及びアジア大気汚染研究センター）。アジア太平洋地域の多様性を考慮しながら、持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）と整合した費用対効果の高い25の大気汚染対策をとりまとめている。対策それぞれの優良事例に加え具体的な成功要因の分析を示すなど、各国の事情に即した応用を促すプラクティカルな内容となっている。

This is a survey with recommendation with three objectives intended to help Asian countries to integrate Short Lived Climate Pollutants(SLCP) into NDCs.. • it provides an overview of which countries in Asia have integrated SLCPs (or related terms) into their NDCs. • it offers pragmatic recommendations on how to strengthen that integration at the...

This report is about the project with a purpose to promote cooperation on Co-benefits-type air pollution measures mainly in Asia. IGES provided advice to MOEJ on the activities of international organisations; supporting international SLCP mitigation activities such as the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short Lived Climate Pollutants...

This is a final report on the project for promoting Asian regional collaboration on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), under a lump-sum contract with Ministry of the Environment, Japan in FY 2018. The project consists of three components: i) Study on policy and implementation of country EIA system in two Asian countries, namely, Malaysia and...

This report is for FY2018 contract work with the Ministry of Environment, Japan as the Secretariat of the Asian Co-benefits Partnership (ACP) for the international partnership for promotion of co-benefits approach.

UNEP published the Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions, the first-ever comprehensive scientific assessment of air pollution outlook in the region. It outlines 25 clean air measures that could achieve safe air quality levels for 1 billion people by 2030 - with numerous benefits for public health, economic development and...

UNEP published the Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions, the first-ever comprehensive scientific assessment of air pollution outlook in the region. It outlines 25 clean air measures that could achieve safe air quality levels for 1 billion people by 2030 - with numerous benefits for public health, economic development and...

Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment Conservation (MONREC), Myanmar introduced EIA procedure (EIAP) in December 2015. The Ministry of Environment Japan (MOEJ) was considering to support Myanmar which stands at the initial stage of effective implementation of EIA. As a starting point, MOEJ, Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)...