The widespread adoption of low emissions technologies in rapidly developing countries is critical to resolving the climate emergency.1 However, many fast growing economies lack the energy efficient, renewable, and other advanced technologies needed to mitigate climate change. Technology transfer could help address these countries need. Yet the...
Myanmar has had to face tremendous challenges in waste management in the recent past, due to a number of factors – its growing population and economy, increasing complexity of waste streams, and lack of effective waste management systems, proper infrastructure, capital investment, financial and human resources, as well as effective policy and...
Just like in any city, the waste management has always been a major societal issue for Phnom Penh. The monthly amount of disposed waste at the landfill more than doubled in the past decade owing to factors such as population growth, economic growth, changes in industrial structure and of people’s lifestyle. While Phnom Penh Capital Administration...
HLPF2019 IGESSide Event “From Science to Implementation: Strengthening the Science Policy Interface (SPI) to Integrate Climate Change, Resilience, and the SDGs” on 11thJuly 2019, UNHQ, NY
Ministry of Natural Resource and Environment Conservation (MONREC), Myanmar introduced EIA procedure (EIAP) in December 2015. The Ministry of Environment Japan (MOEJ) was considering to support Myanmar which stands at the initial stage of effective implementation of EIA. As a starting point, MOEJ, Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)...
Developing a Waste Management Strategy Focusing on Waste as a Resource: the Case of Mandalay City [IGES e-Learning Series] is made up of two videos:
1) Addressing Mandalay's Waste Crisis – A Community in Transition
2) Developing a Waste Management Strategy: Transforming Waste from Problem to Resource
These two educational videos highlight the...
Developing a Waste Management Strategy Focusing on Waste as a Resource: the Case of Mandalay City [IGES e-Learning Series] is made up of two videos:
1) Addressing Mandalay's Waste Crisis – A Community in Transition
2) Developing a Waste Management Strategy: Transforming Waste from Problem to Resource
These two educational videos highlight the...
This report provides an overview of the interim progress of implementing the ASEAN ESC Model Cities Year 3 (2016/17), commissioned by the ASEAN Secretariat and the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF). Since 2010, BRC and KUC have been at the forefront of promoting innovative ‘bottom-up’ actions by cities, through two initiatives (implemented...
本書は北九州市の海外水ビジネスの展開状況をまとめたものである。第1章で海外水ビジネス市場の動向と北九州市の国際協力の歩みについて触れ、第2章で100年以上の歴史を有する北九州市の上下水道がどのように整備されてきたかを振り返り、第3章では北九州市のカンボジアとベトナムでの海外展開の事例を詳述し、第4章では海外展開を進める市内企業4社に焦点を当ててその展開のアプローチを紹介し、最後の第5章において北九州市から海外に拡がる水ビジネスの今後について考察する構成となっている。
なお、本書は、北九州市産業技術保存継承センター（北九州イノベーションギャラリー）の調査研究事業の一環で作成されたものである。