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This paper presents a systematic review of biodiversity/ecosystem services scenario exercises from the Asia–Pacific region. From the limited scholarly literature available, 61 scenario exercises were examined to explore their typology and multiple scenario attributes, including geographic distribution, consideration for influential drivers, choices...

This presentation was made for a keynote speech given at the event of the consultations of multi-stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific for the coming Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR)2019, held on 12-13 November 2018, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The presentation introduced IGES SDG Interlinkages Analysis and Visualisation tool (Version 2.0)...

This presentation provides a strategic perspective for cities on achieving both climate change action and SDGs.

'CDM in Charts' is a booklet with a good reputation for providing a plain and easy-to-understand description of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Remarks: This book is published by IGES as part of New Market Mechanism Capacity Building under the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. Previous versions of this book are archived: http://pub.iges.or...

This presentation provides an update on renewable energy policies, technologies, and strategic focus in further renewable energy deployment towards a decarbonised future.

This presentation explains trends of national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories in submitted biennial update reports (BURs) by developing countries under the UNFCCC. It illustrates country's progress in reporting GHG inventories in terms of methodologies used, gases and GWP used, and years reported with emissions data, etc. In some cases, countries...

This discussion paper aims to provide a high-level overview of the challenges and opportunities in delivering the 2030 Agenda and Paris Agreement commitments, and sets out the essential role financial systems could play. It makes high-level recommendations in order to mainstream sustainable finance into national and international financial systems...

Generally, the characterization of land surface roughness is obtained from the analysis of height variations observed along transects (e.g., root mean square (RMS) height, correlation length, and autocorrelation function). These surface roughness measurements are then used as inputs for surface dynamics modeling, e.g., for soil erosion modeling...

These country sheets present research findings on national long-term, low-emission pathways along the three Talanoa Dialogue questions: where are we, where do we want to go and how do we get there? The results highlight opportunities for enhancing ambition and success stories, and address country-specific topics. For Brazil: sustainable...

Enhanced trade and investments have been one of the significant developments of regional integration in Asia during the recent decades. Countries that are successful in attracting global investments are also highly vulnerable to natural hazards and related losses. This has opened up doors to an important, inescapable and hidden phenomenon of...