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22 May 2020

IGES researcher receives “International Outstanding Cooperation Collaboration Award” from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE)

On 14 May, Dr. Sudarmanto Budi Nugroho, a research manager in the City Task Force at IGES, received the 2019 International Activity Cooperation Award from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE). The award recognises promising non-Japanese...

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13 May 2020

Contribution to an innovative marine plastic pollution management project in ASEAN

Starting in April 2020, IGES began its support for "Closing the Loop", a project co-led by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Japanese government. As a partner agency of ESCAP, IGES is dedicated...

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2 April 2020

IGES Prepares Key Messages on Accelerating Progress on the SDGs for the Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD)

It was in the spirit of collective action that IGES developed 14 key messages to help policymakers in the Asia-Pacific Region accelerate progress on the SDGs.

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27 March 2020

IGES Submitted Recommendations for Revising Japan’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) －On the validity of and methodology for raising the emissions reduction targetー

On 21 February, 2020, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) submitted its recommendations to the Ministry of the Environment for revising Japan's emissions reduction target, through its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)...

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27 March 2020

Contribution to the portal site for the G20 Resource Efficiency Dialogue

On 27 March, 2020, the Ministry of the Environment, Japan launched a portal site for the “G20 Resource Efficiency Dialogue”. As part of the support provided to the government, IGES has contributed to the development of this site. A decision was taken...

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18 October 2019

IGES organises “Science-Policy Dialogues on the Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Southeast Asia & Northeast Asia”

From 21 to 23 October, IGES, the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), and the University of Tokyo Institute for Future Initiative will co-organise the “Science-Policy Dialogues on the Assessment of Biodiversity...

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20 September 2019

IGES declares support for Earth League statement “Humanity is Tipping the Scales of the World “

On 19 September, 2019, IGES announced that it has signed a statement from the international alliance “Earth League”, a voluntary international alliance of prominent scientists from world‐class research institutions,working together to respond to some...

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12 September 2019

Co-development of the “Shimokawa SDGs Indicators”, with Hosei University and Shimokawa Town

IGES is pleased to announce that, in collaboration with Hosei University and the town of Shimokawa in Hokkaido, it plans to develop the “Shimokawa SDGs Indicators” to measure the degree to which local governments’ visions and plans incorporating the...

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29 August 2019

Launch of the IGES “SDG Interlinkages Analysis & Visualisation Tool” (Version 3.0)

An upgraded version of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies’ (IGES) SDG Interlinkages Analysis & Visualisation Tool (Version 3.0) is now available.

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7 August 2019

IGES Signs MoU to Join Assessment Partners for the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF)

IGES began participation, as an Assessment Partner, in the "New York Declaration on Forests”. In this role, IGES will contribute to the evaluation of progress on the Declaration, based on the Institute’s expertise in forest conservation.