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Policy Report

September 2026

Hidden assets: The economic and health case for climate and clean air action

This Assessment provides the most complete picture to date of the benefits and costs of integrated climate and clean air action, complemented by an empirically grounded analysis of how these benefits can be delivered quickly enough to avoid premature deaths and disease and improve the lives of many of the world’s most vulnerable people. The world...

Keywords:

climate change

air pollution

Peer-reviewed Article

June 2026

Reducing open waste burning practices in selected Asian countries: policy, regulatory, institutional capacity, and SWOT assessment

In Waste Management Bulletin

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...

Peer-reviewed Article

April 2026

Mining impacts on air and water quality in Tonk, Rajasthan: a google earth engine analysis

In Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Mining activities significantly alter environmental conditions by increasing atmospheric aerosol loads and degrading water quality. This study employs Google Earth Engine (GEE) to analyze spatiotemporal anomalies in Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), PM₂.₅ concentrations, chlorophyll-a levels, and turbidity in Tonk, Rajasthan, between 2016 and 2022. Data...

Keywords:

REMOTE SENSING

Google Earth Engine

Aerosol Optical Depth

PM₂.₅

Chlorophyll anomaly

Turbidity

Mining pollution

Environmental monitoring

Rajasthan

Commissioned Report

April 2026

Building climate-resilient communities in Bhutan by protecting cultural heritage and revitalizing indigenous local knowledge: Project interim report FY2025

This research aims to contribute to the new scientific knowledge related to the adaptation and climate resilient development strategies. In particular, cultural heritage is a new element for the Global Goals on Adaptation (GGA) in the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience, which was adopted in Dubai 2023. Creating new scientific knowledge on...

Keywords:

Intangible Culture Heritage

Climate Resilience

Climate Change Adaptation

Presentation

April 2026

Building climate-resilient communities in Bhutan by protecting cultural heritage and revitalizing indigenous local knowledge

Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region/ Second Online Meeting

Presentation at the year-end project meeting : Research on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Climate Change in the Asia-Pacific Region, coordinated by International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI)

Submission to Policy Process

March 2026

Mitigating Open Waste Burning: Policy Insights and Priority Actions for Lao PDR

This paper outlines a comprehensive strategy for Lao PDR to eliminate open waste burning (OWB), a prevalent disposal method caused by limited waste collection services. It emphasizes that OWB is a major source of toxic air pollutants like PM2.5 and black carbon, which severely threaten public health and exacerbate climate change. Rather than...

Keywords:

Open burning

Solid waste management

air pollution

Integrated Policymaking

Peer-reviewed Article

March 2026

Harnessing agrivoltaics for healthy net-zero transition in Nagpur, India: geospatial suitability and co-benefits assessment

In Sustainability Science

Many parts of India will require data-driven analysis of the climate, air quality, health, and employment co-benefits of key sectoral interventions as they decarbonize. This research offers such an analysis for agrivoltaics—an intervention that co-locates agriculture with solar energy production on the same parcel of land—in India’s Nagpur...

Peer-reviewed Article

February 2026

The imperative for a new integrated sustainability index in aquatic food systems: towards a post-SDGs future

In Sustainability Science

Aquatic food systems are essential to global food security and biodiversity but remain underserved by existing sustainability indexes, especially amid rising uncertainties and accelerating climate change. Current frameworks are fragmented, environmentally weighted, and insufficiently inclusive of social, economic, and governance dimensions. As we...

Keywords:

Aquatic food systems

Sustainability index

post-SDGs

Transdisciplinary approach

Knowledge platform

AquaIndex

Presentation

February 2026

14年生里山緑地の利用者意識に基づく便益の探索的評価 ―新川崎ふれあい公園・体験の森における質問紙調査による分析―

第26回自然環境復元学会全国大会（研究発表会）

都市の自然環境（都市緑地を含む）は，心理的回復，社会的結束，環境学習の機会を提供することが広く認識されている．人間と自然との関係性に関する学術的議論は，バイオフィリア仮説や注意回復理論などの理論枠組みに加え，健康・生態・経済・環境にわたる幅広い体系的レビューや実証研究によって発展してきた．しかしながら，こうした進展にもかかわらず，特定の都市や地域に内在する多様な生態的・社会的特性に着目した研究や，小規模コミュニティを対象に，簡潔かつ多角的な指標を用いて，記述的・探索的に人と自然の関係性を捉えようとする研究は相対的に少ない．都市公園はネイチャー・ポジティブ戦略の主要な実践の場であり，場所固有の特性を踏まえたコミュニティ主体の自然再生・共生の取り組みが不可欠である．そのためには...

Translation of non-IGES Material

February 2026

生物多様性、水、食料及び健康の間の相互関係に関するテーマ別評価報告書政策決定者向け要約

生物多様性、水、食料、健康および気候の悪化の直接要因および根本的な原因は相互に絡み合っているにもかかわらず、各課題への対処は個別に対処されていることが多く、その結果として、政策間の潜在的な不整合や、計画外の背反性（トレードオフ）、意図しない結果が生じます。ネクサス評価は、トレードオフを克服し、生物多様性、水、食料、健康および気候変動の間の相乗性（シナジー）を高める首尾一貫した意思決定を促し、公正で持続可能な未来に向けた社会変革につながる対応策を提示しています。