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IGES is proud to join more than 30 island communities, government agencies, development partners, academic institutions, private sector actors, and civil society organisations in co-organising Thailand’s largest island-wide clean-up and the 3rd...

IGES is honoured to be one of the organising partners of Thailand Ocean Week 2025, a UN Ocean Conference (UNOC) official virtual side event hosted across Bangkok, Koh Chang, and other coastal cities. This nationwide event brings together over 50...

Background Plastic pollution is a global environmental issue. East and Southeast Asia are of strategic importance in the fight against plastic pollution, the rivers and coastlines of which are some of the most affected by plastic pollution. The...

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), in collaboration with Malaysia's Department of Environment (DOE) and the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm (BRS) Secretariat, organized the ‘Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Environmentally...

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organised the technical workshop "WEEE Matters: Spot it, Sort it, Manage it right" during May 13-14 2025 in Nakhon Ratchasima province, Thailand. The event was arranged in collaboration with...

The concept of a “Climate Resilient Development Pathway” (CRDP), highlighted in both the IPCC’s Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports, refers to sustainable development trajectories that integrate adaptation and mitigation, with a net-zero transition...

Nature Positive is a global societal goal defined as ‘halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 on a 2020 baseline, and achieve full recovery by 2050’, in line with the mission of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Nature Positive...

With the rise in undernourished people worldwide, ensuring food security and resilience has become an urgent, shared concern that requires long-term planning and commitment. Food security is commonly defined by four pillars—availability...

The National Technical Workshop on Enhancing the Capacity of the Waste Recycling Sector Towards a Zero Waste Society in Cambodia was held on March 25–26, 2025, at the Cambodiana Hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The workshop convened international...

The Inception Workshop on ‘Improving source segregation to cease open waste burning in Vientiane, Lao PDR’ was held on the 24th March 2025 in Vientiane, Lao PDR, in collaboration with the National University of Laos and the Institute for Global...