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Updated: April 2024
Online Voluntary Local Review (VLR) Lab
This online platform provides all you need to know about cities and regions taking a lead on “Voluntary Local Reviews.”
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Updated: March 2024
Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency
In recent years, circular economy (CE) and resource efficiency (RE) have become central to the G7 / G20 process and the sustainable development agenda, as well as the response to climate change. A circular economy aims to realise resource circulation...
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Updated: March 2024
IGES and Climate Security: Asia-Pacific Climate Security Project
The climate security featured page will share research findings and related information on climate security. We are exploring various topics, including international trends analysis, energy security, food security, climate-induced human mobility, cl
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Updated: January 2024
IGES Activities on the Better Air Quality (BAQ) conference 2023
The Better Air Quality (BAQ) conference 2023, the region's largest and most prestigious air quality gathering, was held on 15th -17th November 2023, with pre-events on 13th -14th November, at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila, Philippines...
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Updated: January 2024
IGES Activity on COP28
Hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP28) will begin on 30 November 2023. Before, during and after COP28, this Special Webpage
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Updated: December 2023
Collaboration between Da Nang and Yokohama City
The Vietnamese Government has established a national plan in 2019, related to marine pollution caused by plastics, and GHG emissions reduction. Da Nang City is one of the fastest growing cities in Vietnam, and through Da Nang - Yokohama city-to-city
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Updated: November 2023
Global Stocktake (GST) Special webpage
The final approval of the implementation guidelines for the Paris Agreement at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change last November has prompted a phase in which countries will be required to take
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Updated: November 2023
1.5°C Lifestyles
IPCC’s special report on global warming, launched in 2018, emphasized that in order to limit global warming to 1.5C or below, we should achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050. To achieve this ambitious target, CO2 emissions reductions across both pro
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Updated: November 2023
Enhanced Transparency
Based on the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework (ETF), countries regularly provide information on their progress with national climate actions. IGES supports full implementation of the ETF by all countries, especially in Asia. This...
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Updated: November 2023
ASEAN SDGs Frontrunner Cities Programme (SDGs-FC)
The ASEAN SDGs Frontrunner Cities Programme (SDGs-FC) is an initiative under the ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC) funded by the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF). It aims to support ASEAN cities to achieve...