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The Regional Circulating and Ecological Sphere (Regional-CES) is a guiding concept for environmental policies to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in urban and rural communities with maximum utilisation of local strengths and resources. To promote the Regional-CES concept as a useful guiding principle, a scoping...

Methane levels are surging. Enforceable policies for emission reductions are essential. Methane levels have surged since 2006, driven primarily by human activities. We have enough information about our methane emissions to take action, but more enforceable policies to drive reductions are vital. While reductions in the fossil fuel and waste sectors...

一般社団法人グローバル・コンパクト・ネットワーク・ジャパン（以下GCNJ）の中期計画に基づく活動「GCNJ コレクティブ・アクション2030」で定めた5つの優先課題のうち、「バリューチェーン・マネジメント（VCM）」部会では、VCM をこれまで日本で考えられていたような「企業の上下流に関することだけ」ではなく、国際的基準に従い「企業自体のビジネスモデルを中核とし、それを取り巻く上下流も含む様々な活動・資源・関係性であること」であると捉え、今後の経営にサステナビリティ課題を組み込むに当たっての VCM の見直しに資する「アクションガイド」を策定いたしました。（IGES小野田は副座長としてVCM部会に参加しました。） バリューチェーン・マナジメント（VCM...

Holistic landscape restoration offers a solution to multiple interconnected challenges that face our planet. This paper introduces an innovative approach to financing nature alongside local socio-economic and wellbeing needs. Specifically, it describes a practical financing framework for HLR that can aid implementation of commitments related to...

北九州アーバンセンターの活動を紹介する2024年発行のパンフレットです。

This pamphlet introduces the latest activities of Kitakyushu Urban Centre.

On 8 December 2023, the COP28 Japan Pavilion side event “Accelerating International Collaboration towards a Net-zero and Resilient ASEAN” was organised by the ASEAN Secretariat and the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), inviting ASEAN Member State (AMS) representatives, youth, and a European research organisation, and had a panel discussion...

This is the final report of the city-to-city collaboration between EU cities (including one from the UK) and Japanese cities under the International Urban and Regional Cooperation (IURC) Asia and Australasia. During 2021-2023, thirteen EU cities (including one UK city) from ten countries and ten Japanese cities participated in the project and...