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Understanding institutional settings and governance processes is critical to the effective delivery of climate technology solutions for low-carbon and climate-resilient development in Asian cities. Creating the appropriate enabling environment for the development and transfer of climate technologies becomes imperative in this context. This requires...

As the nature of environmental issues is constantly changing, the development of the Sixth ASEAN State of the Environment Report (SOER6) is pivotal to equipping the ASEAN Member States (AMS) with up-to-date information on the status and trends of the region’s environment. SOER6 has several new elements. It assesses the progress and contribution...

• By 2050, more than half the population of most ASEAN Member States (AMS) will live in cities, and by 2035 the ASEAN region will have at least five mega-cities. • Cities are a laboratory of local and global challenges and solutions, and ASEAN cities are frequently frontrunners in developing sustainable (model) cities, with multiple good practices...

▪ Environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) are needed to develop individuals’ and communities’ capacities through transformative education to build sustainable environments, economies, and societies through reconfiguring the relationship between people, the environment, the economy, and society. ▪ AMS face...

● Many environmental responses tackle the impacts that appear at the end of a long chain of logic, such as premature deaths from air pollution, but they rarely address the underlying “drivers” of change. ● In the ASEAN region, these drivers include economic strategies that are geared towards creating an ASEAN economic community, continued...

This report comprehensively reviewed the state and trends of the environment, the pressures on it and the drivers of those pressures, and the national and regional initiatives in place to address environmental concerns, using the DPSIR framework, and provided an overall outlook for the ASEAN environment. New elements, especially the SDGs, Paris...

• The SDGs encourage countries to develop synergies between the environment and the social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. This could help gain more support for environmental measures by the public as well as a broader range of policymakers. • AMS have extensively engaged with the SDG process, developing data and indicators and...

• Since its inception, ASEAN has had a vision of an integrated, sustainable, harmonious, peaceful, and productive region, with its “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”. • The three complementary communities, APSC, AEC, and ASCC, all include aspects of the future environmental conditions and quality of life desired for all ASEAN people, aligned...

北九州市海外水ビジネス推進協議会（KOWBA）は2020年に設立10周年を迎えた。その節目に際してKOWBAが作成した記念誌の一部として「北九州市が取り組む海外水ビジネス」を執筆した。これは「持続可能な社会への挑戦－北九州市とアジア都市との連携」（2018年7月）と「北九州における水ビジネス海外展開の歴史と発展」（2020年3月）に基づいた内容となっている。IGES北九州アーバンセンターとして北九州市の国際政策を20周年以上見つめてきた立場から、北九州市の海外水ビジネス、並びにKOWBAの役割や未来について論じている。

「かながわ気候市民会議in逗子・葉山」の結果は、最終会議（12月2日）以降、最終調整を経て、102の提案項目からなる「市民提案最終案」を完成させました。 12月7日、市民提案最終案を参加市民に送付し、盛り込まれた102の提案項目一つ一つに対し、7段階の支持度合いによる投票を依頼しました。 1週間後の12月14日、35名からの投票をもって投票を締め切り、投票結果を取り入れた94の提案項目からなる「かながわ気候市民会議in逗子・葉山からの提案」を完成させました。同提案は、12月15日に葉山町長、12月18日に逗子市長に手渡し、さらに12月19日に神奈川県政クラブにて届け、公表しました。