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Book Chapter
In All-Hazards Approach Towards Resilience Building
The risks, climatic and non-climatic, are increasingly integrating and interacting with each other across geographical and time scales. This is largely happening due to factors and processes outside the purview of the risk management community that they have mostly ignored for most of the risk management history. The recent pandemic COVID-19 has...
Conference Proceeding
MLP Main Meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan
Author:
Nailia
Timerkhanova
The Mutual Learning Program for Enhanced Transparency (MLP), implemented and funded by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), aims to assist countries to prepare their Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) under the enhanced transparency framework of the Paris Agreement through mutual learning of practices. This summary report presents the...
Policy Brief
Author:
Antony
Froggatt
Cintya
Feitosa
Lola
Vallejo
Zou
Ji
Meng
Qi
Maria Netto
Schneider
The year 2023 marked a concerning milestone in climate history with the global average temperature being 1.45 ± 0.12°C above the pre-industrial average. The Global Stocktake at COP28 showed that the projected temperature rise is expected to be between 2.1 - 2.8°C even if nationally determined contributions (NDCs) of all countries are fully achieved...
Peer-reviewed Article
In World Development Sustainability
Author:
Kaushik
Mandvikar
Nirmal
Kumar
Hitesh
Supe
Deepak
Singh
Ankita
Gupta
Gowhar
Meraj
Inam Danish
Khan
Asma
Kouser
Santosh Kumar
Pandey
Ram
Avtar
India is home to 11 % of the global urban population and is ranks as the second-largest urban system in the world. This study introduces a Heat Health Risk Index (HHRI) rankings for 37 major Indian cities with more than one million residents, using geospatial and socio-ecological data to identify potential heat health risk areas. In this study, the...
Data or Tool
Author:
Koji
Mitomori
Yuka
Nambae
Junko
Morizane
Yasuhiro
Kasuya
IGES published “ Case studies of domestic initiatives that have synergistic impacts on climate change, biodiversity and the SDGs” at the Forth Global Climate and SDG Synergy Conference held at UN Headquarters during the UN High Level Political Forum 2023. In April 2024, the research project “Synergies and Trade-offs for transformative actions...
Non Peer-reviewed Article
In 東洋経済オンライン
脱炭素化への変革のレースで、日本企業は勝ち残れるのか――。著者が所属するシンクタンクの地球環境戦略研究機関(IGES)は2023年12月に 「IGES 1.5℃ロードマップ」と題した報告書を公表した。副題を「日本の排出削減目標の野心度引き上げと豊かな社会を両立するためのアクションプラン」としたように、現行の政府によるGX(グリーントランスフォーメーション)戦略の代替案となる戦略プランを提案した。なぜ代替案が必要なのかについて、主に企業のビジネスとの関連を中心に解説する。本稿はその前編である。
Book
Author:
Gowhar
Meraj
Shizuka
Hashimoto
With a total of 16 chapters, it provides a holistic picture of this pressing environmental issue. First, this book delves into the geological and hydrological factors that make the Himalayan region susceptible to landslides and employs advanced geophysical methodologies to improve future hazard assessments. Additionally, it examines the...
Peer-reviewed Article
In Earth Systems and Environment
Author:
Md. Nasif
Ahsan
Md. Sariful
Islam
Sk. Faijan Bin
Halim
Md. Ashiqur
Rahman
Fatema
Khatun
Md. Iftakharul
Alam
Syeda
Maria
Gowhar
Meraj
Mansour
Almazroui
The frequent climatic extreme events in Bangladesh’s coastal region significantly affected the local agricultural system. To meet the growing food demand, coastal regions must adopt climate-smart agricultural practices to sustain food production. This study examines the farmers’ behavioral determinants for adopting climate-smart agricultural...
Policy Brief
2023年のCOP28で実施されたグローバル・ストックテイクの成果文書では、世界のこれまでのGHG排出量推移は、世界の気温上昇を1.5℃に抑える努力を追求するというパリ協定の目標と合致するものではなく、既存の約束を実施する余地・機会が急速に狭まっているとしている。そして、GHGの大幅で速やかかつ持続的な削減が必要であり、すべての締約国に対して、世界全体の努力への貢献を求めると共に、次期の国別削減目標(国が決定する貢献:NDC)を1.5℃目標と整合するものとするよう奨励している。これを踏まえ、2024年6月17日に発表されたG7プーリア・サミットの首脳コミュニケ において、日本を含むG7各国は「1.5℃に整合した野心的なNDCを提出することにコミット」を表明している。 では...