Da Nang City has become the fastest growing city in Vietnam in recent years with a projected increase in urban area and population in line with rapid economic growth. In the face of climate change, one of the greatest challenges mankind has ever faced, the government of Vietnam announced its commitment to carbon neutrality by 2050 at COP26 to meet...
Official stakeholder consultation meeting was organized between experts team and Da Nang city authority under the project 'MOEJ City to City collaborations' for the development of Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP) which was chaired by the Department of Natural Resource and Environment, Da Nang city. Key departments provided inputs and...
Presentation at IAMC annal meeting in December 2021. The project is a part of IIASA-MOEJ collaborative project B, Bhutan component.
The unexpected Covid-19 pandemic, however, hit global society at the end of 2019, and Bhutan
is no exception. Covid-19 has significantly highlighted the social systematic vulnerabilities in a global
context. In...
Poster presentation at the IAMC academic conference held online in December 2021. The authors presented the current development of Local Climate Change Action Plan for Da Nang city based on carbon neutral strategy by 2050.
The focus of SCP policy has shifted from management of environmental pollution to wider socio-technical change including infrastructure, lifestyles and business models that are sustainable over decades. This paper first examines the expansion of the SCP policy domain through changes in focus of the following two aspects; product lifecycle policy...
The workshop was organized by Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University in February 2021. The workshop focused on the data oriented approaches for social science and policy making processes. This presentation was invited to the 'Innovations and continuous challenges to the use of hard data in the humanities and social sciences' panel...
The evolution of long-term sustainable societies is closely connected to the transformation of the physical built environment in which those societies operate. In this paper, we present a comprehensive set of narratives for the built environment in Japan, consistent with the shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs) framework, to assess the future...
The presentation at the policy dialogue meeting under the city to city collaboration (between Da Nang and Yokohama) project funded by Ministry of Environment Japan. IGES presented the key GHG reduction potential areas and targets for formulating climate action plans in Da Nang city. The further research consortium was also suggested involving key...
This Final Commission Report was prepared for the National Institute for Environmental Studies as part of the outputs for the PoDIWM Project on "POLICY DIALOGUE & NETWORK BUILDING OF MULTI‐STAKEHOLDERS ON INTEGRATED DECENTRALIZED DOMESTIC WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT IN ASEAN COUNTRIES" led by NIES. IGES Team works as an international consultant for the...
This Final Commission Report was prepared for the National Institute for Environmental Studies as part of the outputs for the PoDIWM Project on "POLICY DIALOGUE & NETWORK BUILDING OF MULTI‐STAKEHOLDERS ON INTEGRATED DECENTRALIZED DOMESTIC WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT IN ASEAN COUNTRIES" led by NIES. IGES Team works as an international consultant for the...