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December 2025

Driving the Transformations

In Global Environment Outlook 7

Achieving internationally agreed environmental, social and economic goals requires whole-of-government and whole-of-society approaches (established but incomplete). These approaches can transform interconnected economic and financial, energy, food systems, materials/waste and environmental systems. Such a transformation, in turn, requires...

Keywords:

SDGs

environment

well-being

climate change impacts

Biodiversity

land degradation

pollution

poverty

health

education

energy and food nexus

Sustainable cities

water

Gender Equality

inequality

economic sustainability

oceans

Report Chapter

December 2025

Implication of Environmental Crises on the Socioeconomic Dimensions of the Sustainable Development Goals

In Global Environment Outlook 7

The global environmental crises – climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation and desertification, and pollution and waste – are damaging human well-being and hindering progress of the economic and social dimensions of all the SDGs. Addressing these crises is a prerequisite for achieving the SDGs. Therefore, environmental goals and targets...

Keywords:

SDGs

environment

well-being

climate change impacts

Biodiversity

land degradation

pollution

poverty

health

education

energy and food nexus

Sustainable cities

water

Gender Equality

inequality

economic sustainability

oceans

Policy Report

December 2025

Global Environment Outlook 7 Executive Summary: A future we choose – Why investing in Earth now can lead to a trillion-dollar benefit for all

Despite global efforts and calls for action, our planet has already entered into uncharted territory, facing global environmental crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation and desertification, and pollution and waste. These interconnected crises, which are undermining human well-being and primarily caused by unsustainable...

Keywords:

SDGs

environment

well-being

climate change impacts

Biodiversity

land degradation

pollution

poverty

health

education

energy and food nexus

Sustainable cities

water

Gender Equality

inequality

economic sustainability

oceans

Presentation

November 2025

Clean Air, Shared Future

Clean Air Week 2025

Air pollution is Southeast Asia’s leading environmental health risk and a key driver of climate change through short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) such as black carbon and methane. The Southeast Asia Climate & Clean Air Initiative (SEACAI), co-financed by Germany and Switzerland, demonstrates how coordinated donor action can deliver tangible...

Keywords:

Co-benefits

Air quality

climate change

barrier

Peer-reviewed Article

November 2025

Why Do Some Cities in the United States Integrate Health into Their Climate Plans More than Others?—Hypotheses and Tests

In Sustainability

Many cities have integrated health co-benefits into their climate plans to address cost concerns and build multi-stakeholder support for resilient, net-zero transitions. While some studies have demonstrated that cities vary in how much they link health and climate, few have examined why this is the case. This study fills this gap by using 16...

Keywords:

Co-benefits

Climate Change and Cities

health

net zero city

Peer-reviewed Article

November 2025

Estimating the impact of acclimatization on heat-related illnesses under various representative concentration pathways among three Japanese cities in 2030s and 2050s

In Sustainability Science

As more cities adopt resilient net-zero policies, local-level assessments of the current and future health impacts of warmer temperatures are becoming increasingly important. These assessments may be even more useful if they demonstrate how health impacts of different predicted temperatures vary across acclimatized/non-acclimatized groups. This...

Peer-reviewed Article

October 2025

Relational follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda: accelerating the implementation of the sustainable development goals

In Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Achieving the 2030 Agenda requires comprehensive follow-up and review across all levels of government. Although local governments play a critical role in implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs), their current follow-up and review architecture — conceived from a global perspective and tailored to national reporting — ignores local...

Keywords:

Follow-up and Review

SDGs

post-2030

localizing SDGs

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2025

Assessing financial feasibility and equity prospects in agrivoltaics: a case study of Hachinohe, Japan

In Renewable Energy Focus

Agrivoltaics, which combines the use of land for both agriculture and photovoltaic energy production, is emerging as a promising solution to the land use conflicts between farming and renewable energy. By simul[1]taneously boosting crop yields, enhancing solar panel efficiency and revitalising rural incomes, agrivoltaics is attracting farmers and...

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2025

Urban planning responses to population decline in Japan’s shrinking cities: growth strategies vs. decline management

In Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

This paper examines the interplay between pro-growth and smart shrinkage planning approaches to persistent population decline in three small-sized Japanese municipalities: Yubari, Hokkaido; Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture; and Manazuru, Kanagawa Prefecture. To articulate the extent to which shrinking cities deviate from historically normative pro-growth...

Keywords:

Shrinking Cities

Yubari

Manazuru

Suzu

Urban Planning

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2025

Ecological Risk Assessment and Management of Forest Fires in Tamil Nadu, India: A MaxEnt Model-Based Approach for Strategic Resource Allocation and Fire Mitigation

In Risk Analysis

Forest fires are integral to forest ecosystems as they influence nutrient cycling, plant regeneration, tree density, and biodiversity. However, human-induced climate change and activities have made forest fires more frequent, more intense, and more widespread, exacerbating their ecological and socioeconomic impact. Forest fires shape Tamil Nadu's...