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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...

Inadequate national implementation efforts, particularly policies and budgets, could be an important reason why the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are off track. Identification and assessment of policies and budgets should be a major focus of the SDG follow-up and review process, especially the Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs), to strengthen...

This study provides an indicative comparative assessment of the factors underlying these challenges by examining policy content, regulatory enforcement, and institutional capacity related to OWB across ten selected Asian countries: Cambodia, China, India, Iraq, Jordan, Laos, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Thailand. The researchers employed a...

The Pact for the Future adopted in September 2024 calls for the 2027 SDG Summit to discuss advancing development goals beyond 2030. Since Autumn 2025, this theme has been discussed in some meetings and workshops. For example, the World EXPO in Osaka, Japan hosted a forum on “SDGs +Beyond”; “Future of Sustainable Development” workshop was held at...

The term “transformative change” has evolved into a one-stop-shop concept in sustainability circles. In peer-reviewed journals in the fields of environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, and earth and planetary sciences, it appeared only 75 times prior to 2010, but 1,012 times from 2010 to 2019, and 3,534 times in just the first...

2025 年 1 月の第 2 次トランプ政権発足以来、米大統領府は、'\リ協定脱退や石炭産業活性化に関する大統領令を相次いで発出し、米環境保護庁(EPA)は、温室効果ガスの影響に関する危険性認定を含む約 30 項目の環境規制の見直しを公表するなど、トランプ政権は、バイデン政権が進めてきた脱炭素政策からの全面的な見直しを目指しており、米国の環境、気候変動政策は大きく転換している。 また、トランプ政権は国連組織等の国際機関への拠出の一時停止や見直しを行うとともに、国務省、EPA、USAID をはじめとする連邦政府組織の見直し、大規模な人員削減を実施。USAID の機能停止により、世界各地での支援が停止するなど、世界中に影響が広がっている。 本業務では、こうした米国における環境...

Excerpt (first section): Nature-based solutions (NbS) have become a pillar of global sustainability governance, featuring prominently in international agenda-setting instruments such as the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, as well as in conservation messaging. Using nature to address societal challenges is the defining feature of NbS...

Effective disaster risk reduction in developing countries requires policies that are systematically informed by scientific evidence. This paper investigates how science–policy integration for disaster management and climate adaptation has been institutionalised in three international reference cases (Japan, the United States, and the Netherlands)...

The global environmental governance landscape is undergoing a paradigmatic shift from state-centric pollution control to market-based Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). This report provides an exhaustive analysis of the EPR landscape within the Indo-Pacific region, contrasting the mature, strict-liability frameworks of East Asia (Japan, South...

JICAの「スリランカ国プラスチック管理能力強化プロジェクト」の下で、スリランカの中央政府の環境省や公共行政州議会地方政府省の次官・局長を含む高官へ向けた研修に、講師として参加した。その中で、プラスチックを含む循環資源の拡大生産者責任（EPR）政策の導入に関連した講義・意見交換を行った。