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Padang City relies heavily on community-based waste banks (Bank Sampah) as decentralized units for waste segregation, recycling, and household engagement. These waste banks play a critical role by promoting waste segregation at source; providing economic incentives for households; acting as intermediaries between communities and recyclers. However...

This paper examines the governance of agrivoltaics (AV) in the context of Japan’s rapid rural depopulation and farmland abandonment. While AV is traditionally framed as a solution to land-use competition, this study argues that in shrinking regions, the primary challenge is not land scarcity but a shortage of human capacity to manage...

Plastic waste in Indonesia threatens environmental sustainability and health. This study explores waste bank as a social innovation based on the 3R principle, as a means of education, behavior change in waste management, and the implementation of the circular economy. Aims: This study aims to identify and describe the practices and reasons of...

Decarbonizing road transport through technology interventions is crucial for reducing global greenhouse gases emissions. However, progress varies significantly across regions due to differences in technology readiness, commercialization, and policy environments. In recent years, the electrification of light-duty and freight vehicles has emerged as...

Decarbonizing road transport requires a socio-technological transition that integrates systemic changes in transport infrastructure, technological innovation, and broader societal transformation. Non-state actors—particularly sub-national governments and cities such as Jakarta Metropolitan City, West Java Province, and the City of Semarang—play a...

This report evaluates a pilot project in Padang, Indonesia, that introduced the digital application to modernise community-based waste banks. The study explores how digital transformation can improve operational efficiency, data accuracy, and transparency within a circular economy framework. While the initiative successfully digitised thousands of...

Asia Smart City Conference 2025, organized by City of Yokohama in November 2025, organized a session on Mutual pitches between city and company representatives on urban issues and technological solutions. This session shared the needs of Asian cities in addressing urban challenges, including rapid urbanization, population concentration in city...

This report is the sixth edition of the State of the Voluntary Local Reviews series, which has been produced annually by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) since 2020. It aims to offer an empirical overview of the Voluntary Local Review (VLR) movement to examine evolving local-level practices in SDG localisation...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the 2030 Agenda) and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were intended to motivate governments to transform conventional development patterns (United Nations, 2015). However, the lack of progress on the SDG suggests the national institutions and processes supporting this transformation may not be...

Central Kalimantan experienced the highest rates of burning and the most repeated fire incidents. Water is the most common means of extinguishing forest fires in Indonesia. However, it is less efficient at wetting and penetrating hydrophobic surfaces during the extinction of peatland fires. Firefighting agents with high penetration capabilities are...