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On Tuesday, 22 October, Professor Sir Jim Skea, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Professor at Imperial College London, visited IGES's headquarters in Hayama and exchanged views with IGES researchers. Since 1999, IGES...

On 9 October, Dr. Johan Rockström, the globally renowned scientist on planetary sustainability and leading researcher on planetary boundaries (Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the...

Tokyo/Jakarta 20 September 2024 IGES and the Regional Knowledge Centre for Marine Plastic Debris of ERIA (the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia) have announced the launch of Phase II of the ‘Breaking the Plastic Habit in Asia’...

IGES and the Gulf Organization for Research and Development's Climate Action Center of Excellence (GORD/CACE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding and Cooperation (MOUC), marking a significant step forward in collaborative climate action efforts...

IGES is launching Phase II of the Breaking the Plastic Habit in Asia project to test the effectiveness of behaviour-centred interventions to reduce the use and waste of single-use plastics in cities and communities. The project is conducted in close...

In May 2024, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the Vientiane Capital Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office (VC PAFO) of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)...

Professor MORISHIMA Akio, the first Chair of the Board of Directors and President of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, passed away on 26 May, 2024 at the age of 89. We would like to express our deepest sympathy to Prof. Morishima’s...

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will host the 16th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2024). This year, the Plenary Sessions will be held on Tuesday, 23 July 2024 at Pacifico Yokohama as a hybrid...

Mikiko Kainuma, IGES Research Advisor, has been selected as one of the 15th Group of Inductees into the Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto. The induction ceremony will be held on 14 October 2024. The Earth Hall of Fame Kyoto is an award to honour in perpetuity...

On 1 April 2024, IGES established the Global Environmental Action (GEA) Secretariat at the IGES Tokyo Sustainability Forum. GEA is an NGO founded in 1991 by former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita to contribute to the solution of global environmental...