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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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7 June 2019

New Ideas for Sustainable Business and Lessons from Pioneers in Circular Economy and Climate Change

As a part of the exhibition and conference “ASEAN Sustainable Energy Week 2019” in Bangkok, a number of specialists and scholars, senior government officials, and representatives from the business sector joined a multi-stakeholder seminar.

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Symposium on New Directions and Future Initiatives for Air Pollution Control in Asia

22 May 2019

Commemorating the Japanese Edition of the “Science-Based Solutions Report: Air Pollution in the Asia-Pacific Region” “Symposium on New Directions and Future Initiatives for Air Pollution Control in Asia" -Aiming to simultaneously solve problems with air

Air pollution, which has become a serious social problem in the Asia-Pacific region, is closely related to climate change, in terms of both impact and necessary countermeasures. It is also an important issue for achieving the SDGs. Thus, at the...

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11 May 2019

The Commemorative Symposium on the IPCC Session convened in Kyoto: “To Realize a Decarbonized Society – the State of the World and Kyoto’s Challenges”

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), together with the City of Kyoto, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) Japan, and the Ministry of the Environment Japan will hold an international symposium, “To Realize a...

Past Event

28 March 2019

6th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development Side Event

Promoting Enabling Environment for Inclusiveness by Localizing SDGs

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organised an official side event on 28 March 2019 titled “Promoting Enabling Environment for Inclusiveness by Localizing SDGs,” together with the Government of Japan (Ministry of the...

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19 February 2019

International Workshop

How Can Asia Manage Air Pollution and Climate Change? From Understanding Impacts to Implementing Solutions

The Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organised an international workshop titled “How Can Asia Manage Air Pollution and Climate Change? From Understanding Impacts to...

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30 January 2019

Training Workshop for Creating a Low-Carbon Society “Climate Change Strategies for Local Governments: Low-Carbon City Policy Development and Implementation” (FY 2018)

From 30 January to 1 February 2019, the training workshop “Climate Change Strategies for Local Governments: Low-Carbon City Planning Development and Implementation” was organised in the cities of Kitakyushu and Fukuoka in Japan as part of the...

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18 December 2018

Dissemination workshop: Promoting the implementation of energy efficient technologies, Vapi, Gujarat, India

IGES and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) organised a dissemination workshop on 18 December 2018 to promote the implementation of energy efficient technologies. The workshop was held at Vapi in the State of Gujarat in India as part of the...

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22 November 2018

Sustainable Society Built by Team Kitakyushu- Direction of Future International Environmental Cooperation -

Kitakyushu, with its vast experience in overcoming historic levels of pollution, is carrying out a diverse set of actions that take advantage of environmental management know-how, technologies, and partnerships between industries, government...

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13 November 2018

Two-day training on applicable low-carbon technologies in Thailand

Two-day training on applicable low-carbon technologies in Thailand was co-organised by the Ministry of the Environment, Government of Japan, and Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE), Ministry of Energy, Government of...

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18 October 2018

Presentation on JITMAP at the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industries in India (JCCII)

IGES Kansai Research Centre had an opportunity to present its activities to promote Japanese companies’ low-carbon technology (LCT) transfer in India at a monthly meeting of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in India (JCCII) .