
Biodiversity in the G7 communiques
This presentation was a summary of the content of the G7 Sapporo Environment Ministers' Communique and subsequent Hiroshima Leaders' Communique, with a specific focus on biodiversity. The slides present the Sapporo paragraphs, while the presentation went into detail about the degree to which they made their way through to the Hiroshima communique...
An opinion piece about the degree to which the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework invokes market-based as opposed to regulatory mechanisms.
This presentation set the scene for a 90 minute webinar that consisted mostly of discussion and Q&A. The presentation was an overview of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). It also included some explanation about the Convention in Biological Diversity (CBD), which adopted the GBF; the meetings of the Conference of the Parties...
2023 年のG7サミットは、日本が議長国を務め、2023 年5月に広島で開催することが決定している。また、サミットの開催に合わせ、様々なG7関係閣僚会合が開催される予定であり、北海道札幌市において、環境省が経済産業省とともに、気候・エネルギー・環境大臣会合(開催予定日:2023 年4月15 日(土)~16 日(日))を開催する。本大臣会合に先立ち、令和5年1月から準備会合が開催された。
本業務では、これらG7会合(サミット及び大臣会合並びにその準備・関連会合)に関して、議論に必要となる資料の収集・分析、成果文書案の分析、報告書の作成等を行い、また同会合や準備会合等に関する技術支援等を行い、会合の成果が環境政策の推進に資するよう、業務を行った。
In China, the verification of the legality of procured wood has mainly been voluntary, with businesses exporting wood products to Europe and the U.S. conducting their own checks. However, since the revision of the Forest Law in 2019, the procurement, processing, and transportation of clearly illegally harvested wood is now prohibited, and violators...
令和5年は、インドがG20議長国となり、7月に環境・気候大臣会合及び9月にサミットが開催される予定となっている。また大臣会合に先立ち令和4年度内から準備会合が開催された。
本業務では、令和4年度に開催された準備会合に関して、議事録、速報版、報告書の作成などを行った。また、同準備会合などに関する情報収集・分析などのサブスタンス支援を行った。
生物多様性及び生態系サービスに関する政府間科学政策プラットフォーム(IPBES:Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services)は、生物多様性と生態系サービスに関する動向を科学的に評価し、科学と政策のつながりを強化する政府間のプラットフォームとして、2012年4月に設立された政府間組織で、事務局はドイツのボンに置かれています。本パンフレットはIPBESの機能、組織体制、作業計画や概念枠組、ならびに実施中及び計画中のアセスメントの概要等について説明しています。
These proceedings pertain to the JSPS-ICSSR seminar entitled ‘Understanding and Addressing Systemic Risks Behind the Socio-economic Impacts of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Japan and India: Developing a Roadmap for a Resilient and Sustainable Future’. Led by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the Indian Institute...
In 2020, IGES and others reported that the United Nations’ Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its accompanying Aichi Biodiversity Targets would be replaced by a new framework to guide biodiversity planning at the national level. This framework, known as the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF), was due to be proposed for...
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