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The Paris Agreement and the SDGs were both adopted in 2015, and as such, they have a complementary relationship. We need to make sure that our efforts to proceed with both of these are carried out in an integrated manner. For example, the IPCC...

In response to the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, the UK government requested the Climate Change Commission to advise on achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions. France has set up an independent High Council on Climate to...

Japan adopted its Long-term Strategy under the Paris Agreement (Cabinet decision, 11 June 2019), envisioning a paradigm shift to an economic and social system for zero GHG emissions, without emissions in the second half of the century. With...

Approximately 4 billion people, around 92 percent of the population in Asia and the Pacific, are exposed to levels of air pollution that pose a significant risk to their health. Though developed countries like Japan have made visible progress...

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC), Global Environment Centre Foundation (GEC), and Overseas Environmental Cooperation Center (OECC) jointly organised the...

On 15 October 2019, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and the Department of Environment (DoE) on behalf of the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Bangladesh, in collaboration with the Japan-Bangladesh Chamber...

The aim of the workshop was to provide information about potential Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) projects to the Mongolian government, and to build the capacity of the local Third Party Entity (TPE) and project participants in Mongolia under the...