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IGES and the ASEAN Secretariat launched a new website for the ASEAN Project on Disaster Risk Reduction by Integrating Climate Change Projection into Flood and Landslide Risk Assessment (ASEAN DRR-CCA). IGES is taking the lead coordination role...

IGES will participate in the 7th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum (APAN Forum) as a Forum Session Partner, to be held from March 8 to 12. This Forum, held virtually under the theme “Enabling Resilience for All: The Critical Decade to...

On 7 January, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote data-driven policy-making and knowledge dissemination over the...

On Friday, 18 December 2020, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) released its position paper "Implications of COVID-19 for the Environment and Sustainability (Version 2): Perspectives from the Triple R (Response, Recovery...

On 30 November, IGES and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a new Cooperation Arrangement with the purpose of further strengthening their relationship. The organisations were represented by Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President, IGES, and Bambang...

Junko Ota, Researcher at IGES’ Kitakyushu Urban Centre, received the Incentive Award in the individual category of the "14th Kitakyushu City Women's Active Participation and Work-Life Balance Awards" for 2020. This award is given to companies...

An employee at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) tested positive for COVID-19 on 26 November 2020. The affected employee has been off-duty and teleworking from home since they fell ill on 9 November, took a test on 25 November...

On 29 October, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (the Alliance) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on developing mutual initiatives to strengthen engagement with cities over the next...

On 20 October, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, President of IGES, and Eric Zusman, Research Leader, held a session at the Earth League meeting, about greening the recovery and the Triple R Framework. Their presentation was titled: “Greening the COVID-19 Response...

On 24 October, IGES dispatched a researcher to Mauritius as a member of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) research team, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) for the purpose of fleshing out future support measures. Koji...