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Actively engaging women in climate mitigation activities can yield multiple benefits, including improved jobs, better livelihoods, and more equitable revenue flows. Efforts are moving forward to design climate funding mechanisms to help capture these benefits, but policy makers and other stakeholders need more guidance on designing gender...

This paper aims to assess climate change-related non-economic loss and damage (NELD) through case studies of Bangladesh and Japan, evaluate how NELD are addressed in these countries and provide the ways forward for further improvement. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviewed the literature to examine NELD and looked into currently available...

This policy brief analyzes the position of air pollution in the SDGs, and makes recommendations for how air pollution could be better integrated into SDG implementation. The SDGs, with 17 goals, 169 targets, and even more indicators, were criticized by some for having too many goals and lacking a clear sense of priorities. However, this policy...

The focus of disaster risk reduction has changed from response-based approaches to pre-disaster preparedness, mitigation and risk reduction approaches over the course of the last 25 years. However, the progress of this transition in focus has been slowed by a narrow perspective on risk reduction, which is yet to be fully mainstreamed into climate...

Criticisms raised against the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have placed the development of alternative market mechanisms on the official agenda of international climate change negotiations for the past few years. The Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), initiated by the Japanese government, intends to offer a simpler and more flexible crediting...

Land degradation has been intensified over most of the region, with consequent displacement of indigenous people, loss of biodiversity, and reduction in important forest products. Land degradation has additional implications for water resources in terms of soil water content and groundwater recharge. The total forest area has increased in some...

Groundwater contributes to the sustainable development of many Asian cities by providing water for domestic, industrial, and agricultural uses and by regulating ecosystem flows. In many Asian cities more than half the potable water supply comes from groundwater. In some cities, groundwater abstraction for industrial use is even higher than for...

2016年12月14日、「気候関連の財務情報開示に関するタスクフォース（TCFD）による提言報告書」が発表されたが、本コメンタリは、企業の気候関連財務情報開示はSDGs投資拡大につながっていくのかについて議論したものである。

The first G20 Summit meeting in China was held in Hangzhou on 4 and 5 September, 2016. This IGES Briefing Note considers the implications of the meeting for climate change, green finance and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the overall context of holding the meeting in China for the first time. From a sustainability perspective, the...

1990年頃より北欧を中心に欧州に拡大した炭素税やエコロジー税制改革（炭素税等）に続き、日本においても、2012年より温暖化対策税としてすでに炭素税が導入されることになった。しかし、欧州の先進事例においては、日本と異なり、価格シグナルとして機能しうるほど税率が高く、かつ二重の配当を意図して税収中立とされていることが多い。このような炭素税等のあり方は、日本のNDCや長期目標達成に寄与すべく、現行の温暖化対策税の将来像の一面を提示しているといえる。しかし、日本におけるこれまでの炭素税をめぐる議論を背景とすれば、欧州の先進事例のような炭素税等を日本において実行するのは容易ではなく、これはそのような導入国においても同様であり、反対派との激しい議論の末に導入が実行されたことが多いと考える。そこで、まず...