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31 March 2025

The Final (3rd) Workshop on the National Long-term Roadmap to Synergise Mitigation and Adaptation in the ASEAN Region

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...

Past Event

27 March 2025

Exploring Nature Positive Futures

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...

Past Event

26 March 2025

Redefining Food Security in the Asia-Pacific - Integrating food security with climate change and development

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...

Past Event

21 March 2025

Launch of the OECD Environmental Performance Review of Japan

The Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), in collaboration with the City of Yokohama, is hosting a public event on Friday, 21 March, to mark the release of the OECD Environmental Performance Review of Japan. The OECD Environmental Performance...

Past Event

20 March 2025

Building Disaster-Resilient Communities - Lessons from Noto, Tohoku, and the World on Disaster Prevention and Resilience

The impact of climate change has led to an increase in natural disasters such as heavy rainfall worldwide, and the disaster risk faced by regional communities has become more severe. Last year, the Noto Peninsula experienced disasters caused by...

Past Event

19 March 2025

How Japan’s Experience will be able to Contribute to the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities

Cities play an important role in addressing climate change. In recognition of this, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has decided to prepare a "Special Report on Climate Change and Cities" (SR-Cities) in its Seventh Assessment...

Past Event

19 March 2025

Climate Security Challenges in the Asia-Pacific: Securing Energy, Trade and Transition

The surging impacts of climate change pose significant challenges to the Asia-Pacific region, particularly its highly interconnected and resource-dependent energy systems. The region is vulnerable to diverse climate security challenges that...

Past Event

26 February 2025

A Regional Pathway to Achieving SDGs and Addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis: Kickstarting the Asia-Pacific Synergy Report

This side event marks the official kick off the development of the “Asia-Pacific Synergy Report to Address the SDGs and the Triple Planetary Crisis,” a collaborative initiative aimed at driving sustainable development in the region, with the report...

Past Event

19 February 2025

Webinar on the 9th Insight of 10 New Insights in Climate Science (10NICS) - “Just and Responsible Energy Transition Minerals Value Chain”

The global transition to clean energy has increased demand for key minerals such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements. While these minerals are essential for renewable energy technologies, their extraction and trade often come with significant...

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5 March 2025

South to South Cooperation and Peer Learning for Effective EPR Policy Development - Closing Conference: Strengthening Plastic Pollution Management in Asia and the Pacific

As part of the Closing Conference on Strengthening Plastic Pollution Management in Asia and the Pacific, held on 5–6 March 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, IGES organized a special session titled “South-to-South Cooperation and Peer Learning for...

Past Event

26 February 2025

APFSD Side Event

A Regional Pathway to Achieving SDGs and Addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis: Kickstarting the Asia-Pacific Synergy Report

Past Event

19 February 2025

Webinar on the 9th Insight of 10 New Insights in Climate Science (10NICS) - “Just and Responsible Energy Transition Minerals Value Chain”

Past Event

19 February 2025

Webinar

Strengthening Follow-Up and Review of the SDGs at the Local Level

With only five years left until 2030, accelerating the localization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is more critical than ever. Local and regional governments play a pivotal role in...

Past Event

18 February 2025

Symposium on Forest and Peatland Fire in Indonesia 2025 - Outcome from JICA’s Verification Survey with the Private Sector for Disseminating Japanese Technologies to Extinguish Forest and Peatland Fires Using Eco-Friendly Soap-Based Fire Fighting Foam -

IGES contributed as a collaborator for the Symposium on Peatland Fire 2025. This event served as a final session, presenting the outcome of the JICA’s Verification Survey with the Private Sector for Disseminating Japanese Technologies to...

Past Event

18 February 2025

Strengthening ASEAN+3 Efforts to Tackle Marine Plastic Pollution

The 6th ERIA’s Experts Working Group (EWG) on Marine Plastic Debris Meeting was held on 18 February 2025 in a hybrid format, co-organised by the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA)’s Regional Knowledge Centre for Marine...

Past Event

17 February 2025

Conference

Global Dialogue & Youth Day: Circular Economy Model of Waste Management

The UNEP Global Dialogue & Youth Day: Circular Economy Model of Waste Management, co-organized by UNEP-IETC, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), and the Global Environment Centre (GEC), convened key stakeholders from around...

Past Event

5 February 2025

JCCI (JICA Clean City Initiative) International Seminar 2025

JICA Clean City Initiative (JCCI) contributes to building a sustainable society that can realise a healthy environment and protect the health and living environment of people in partner countries by promoting environmental measures; such as waste...

Past Event

30 January 2025

Asia-Pacific Climate Security (APCS) Project

International Workshop on Climate Security in Asia-Pacific

IGES organised the Asia Pacific Climate Security (APCS) International Workshop, together with our partner - the Institute for Future Initiatives of the University of Tokyo, and our collaborators from Sasakawa Peace Foundation. The two-day workshop...

Past Event

23 January 2025

A6IP-IETA Private Sector Working Group Meeting of the Paris Agreement Article 6 Implementation Partnership (A6IP)

In terms of international cooperation in implementing climate mitigation activities to achieve the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree target and NetZero society, the COP29 in Baku in November 2024 became an epoch-making event as it completed the...