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Prospects for US Climate Policy in the Biden Administration
The first in a series of webinars on climate change and decarbonisation will focus on US Climate Policy in the Biden Administration.
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Seminar on Climate Actions and the Joint Crediting Mechanism in Indonesia
On 23 January 2020, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the Indonesia JCM Secretariat, Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, Indonesia (CMEA) jointly organised the “Seminar on Climate Actions and the Joint Crediting...
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Workshop on the Joint Crediting Mechanism in the Lao PDR
Contribution to NDC Roadmap and SDGs Implementation
On 21 January 2020, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organised a workshop on the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) in Lao PDR. The workshop aimed to promote further dissemination of low carbon technologies in Lao, through the...
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UNFCCC-COP25 Side Event
Climate and SDGs Synergy Approach - Achieving Decarbonized Society and Securing Human Well-being -
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...
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UNFCCC-COP25 Side Event
How the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) could address the achievement of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This side event will discuss how JCM partner countries can achieve their NDCs through JCM implementation. This event also will discuss how the JCM can contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are closely...
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UNFCCC-COP25 Side Event
China-Japan-Korea Collaborative City Climate Actions: An introduction to the China-Japan-Korea Joint Research Project on Cities towards Decarbonisation and Sustainable Development
UN Secretary-General António Guterres mentioned at World Cities Day on 311 October 2019 that more than half the world’s population now lives in urban areas and two-thirds will do so by 2050. Cities consume more than two-thirds of the world’s...
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UNFCCC-COP25 Side Event (LCS-RNet)
Can “our” long-term strategies make 1.5°C societies a reality?
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...
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Symposium open for public
EU-Japan Climate Change Policy Symposium: Use of scenario analysis to form the long-term strategy under the Paris Agreement
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...
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Voluntary Local Review Workshop
VLR Training @ADB-LOGIN Workshop
This one-day training session focused on introducing the theory, methods, and practices of the Voluntary Local Reviews to the LOGIN members (staff of the local governments' associations in South and East Asia).
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Training on the City-to-City Collaboration for Creating Low-Carbon Society (Toyama City, November 2019)
The Ministry of Environment, Japan (MOEJ) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organized the "Training on the City-to-City Collaboration for Creating Low-Carbon Society", from 27-29 November in Toyama City. The objective of...
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ACP/IIASA Joint International Workshop
Implementing Solutions to Air Pollution and Climate Change in Asia: Building Capacities, Strengthening Policies, and Financing Technologies
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...