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The EU and Japan have both recently made important progress in enacting key sustainable finance policies. The European Commission (EC) adopted a comprehensive package of measures in April 2021 to facilitate the flow of investments towards...

In 2018 four pioneer local governments—Kitakyushu, New York, Toyama, and Shimokawa—presented their Voluntary Local Review (VLR) of progress towards achieving the 2030 Agenda. Ever since, the VLR movement has grown, with an increasing number of...

On 16 June, IGES co-sponsored a webinar titled “Integrating Clean Air and Climate Actions in Cities: Lessons Learned on Co-Benefits in Asia”, and also released guidelines on co-benefits Integrating air pollution and climate change in a single set...

The novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has brought countries around the world to a standstill for most of 2020. This event will begin with expert presentations about the broad range of topics the book has covered on COVID-19 and its impacts on...

In October 2020, the Japanese government announced its aim for the "realization of a carbon-neutral and decarbonised society by 2050". In order to accomplish this goal, the seminar provides opportunities for private companies that are interested...

COVID-19 has drastically changed our societies. The COVID-19 pandemic might have been caused by imbalances in the relationship between nature and humans, such as climate change and deforestation. When considering the COVID-19 era and beyond, we...

From 7 to 10 December, the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ) and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organized the training program "Creating Sustainable, Zero-Carbon Societies through City-to-City Collaboration". This...

Sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable development goals, sustainable lifestyles and sustainable cities are terms we hear often. We are committed to living sustainably, but do we know where exactly are we headed? What will the...

The United Nations has designated the 2020s as the "decade of action to deliver the SDGs by 2030", and calls on all countries and stakeholders to take accelerated actions toward achieving the SDGs. However, at the start of this important decade...

The High-Level Seminar (HLS) on Sustainable Cities (former title: HLS on Environmentally Sustainable Cities) is organised annually as a platform to gather together influential East and Southeast Asia policymakers, experts and practitioners working...