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Promoting Evidence-based Policymaking to Tackle Marine Plastic Pollution in Asia-Pacific

Background Generating and accessing accurate plastic data is essential for planning, implementing, and monitoring how plastics move through the economy and leak into the environment. However, significant gaps in data availability and accessibility...

Workshop on 1.5°C Lifestyles in Kitakyushu 2025 - Want to try a practical cooking class that helps mitigate global warming?

The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, aims to limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. To achieve this, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced to net zero by around 2050...

Kitakyushu SDGs Training 2025 - Learn from Local Frontrunners and Think Synergistic Impacts

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is organising a two-week on-site SDGs training programme in Kitakyushu City (Fukuoka Prefecture) for university undergraduate, graduate and postgraduates students who reside in Japan. We are...

Celebrating World Ocean Day 2025 and Thailand’s Heart Made Islands Project: “30+ Islands Clean-Up – So Cool Mission

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...

Thailand Ocean Week 2025 (UNOC Official Virtual Side Event - Onsite in Thailand)

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...

Ending Plastic Pollution: Spotlight on East and Southeast Asia

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 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...

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...

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...

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