Science/policy interface
Arid zone ecology
Science communication
Biodiversity
MSc: Conservation Biology, University of Cape Town (2005)
B-Tech: Nature Conservation, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (2001)
National Diploma: Nature Conservation, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (1996)
A hallmark of the media publicity surrounding COVID-19 has been the message that land change causes zoonotic diseases to spill over from wild animals to humans. The secondary peer-reviewed literature sends a similar message. However, as indicated in the primary peer-reviewed literature, the complexity of interacting variables involved in zoonotic...
An overview of the main outcomes and activities at the ninth meeting of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-9).
A brief overview of the major activities and outcomes of the ninth meeting of the Plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). This meeting took place in Bonn on 3-9 July 2022.
A presentation of a paper written by Johnson, Mader, Dasgupta and Kumar in 2020, as part of an online event on citizen science. The original paper by Johnson et al. is available at https://www.iges.or.jp/en/pub/citizen-science-and-invasive-species/en.
This presentation presented a summary of the targets within the post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) that relate to health. There are four such targets, which is a considerable proportion the total number, demonstrating the importance afforded to biodiversity and health.
Despite the growing global support for capacity building to improve soil management, the estimation and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, especially from mineral soils in national GHG inventories, is still very limited. In 2021, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and FAO conducted a global survey to...
持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）が定めた2030年という期限を前に、世界はすでに「決定的な10年」とも言うべき期間に突入している。これは、持続可能な未来の実現に向けた残り時間がなくなりつつあることを示している。2022年のハイレベル政治フォーラム（HLPF）、アジア太平洋持続可能な開発フォーラム（APFSD）および関連フォーラムでは、SDGsの5つの目標（SDG 4、5、14、15、17）についての詳細な検討が予定されている。「すべての人の持続可能な未来を実現するためのプラネタリー・バウンダリーを超えない暮らし」を実現するために、これらの目標の達成に向けて、IGES、政策立案者、企業、市民社会、その他の関係者が取るべき方策を、キーメッセージとして示す。
With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set to end in 2030, the world has entered a “decisive decade”—a quickly closing window that could determine whether a sustainable future is within reach. The following messages outline steps that IGES, policymakers, businesses, civil society, and other stakeholders can take to implement the five SDGs...
（Japanese title: 熱帯林違法伐採の検知（JJ-FAST））
This submission provides our input for the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement. Our input focuses on a satellite-based deforestation monitoring system for tropical forests, “JICA-JAXA Forest Early Warning System in the Tropics (JJ-FAST)”.
Summary of the submission:
On Thursday 2 December 2021, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) convened a session entitled “Landscape Approaches for Biodiversity, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Co-benefits” at the 13th International Forum for Sustainable Asia...
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This special webpage presents reports and publications related to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF2020).
