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Climate security refers to the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on peace and security. It also refers to the impact of climate change on the political stability, human security, national security, etc. Climate change as a threat multiplier, can exacerbate the underlying traditional security issues and human security issues. Hence...

In a globalized world, disaster impacts seldom remain within political boundaries but often spill over beyond national boundaries. These transboundary risks bring an added complexity to the way the multi-hazard risks impact society. Until now, most risk assessments are focused within one’s political boundaries, and that worked with limited...

Adaptation effectiveness (AE) refers to how policies and actions reduce present and future climate risks. It is a systems concept that requires a unit of measurement, expression in value terms, a baseline, and a goal. Pre-requisite/enabling conditions such as equity, justice, and fairness are essential. Over the years, progress in adaptation has...

The presentation overview the current discussion on Extended Producer Responsibility under international negotiation committee on international-legally-binding instrument. The presentation highlighted the followiong points. -INC3 Zero Draft of ILBI: Extended Producer Responsibility systems is a part of policy instruments required for the parties to...

By utilizing the opportunity of Regional Consultation on INC in Asia and the Pacific held on March 5 and 6 2024 in Bangkok, the hybrid webinar was organized as an opportunity to have a policy-expert dialogue on on-going works to prepare more policy-relevant analysis on plastic pollution and effectiveness of policy responses coordinated by leading...

神奈川県鎌倉市材木座の公会堂のリフォームを記念して、開催された地域防災と環境問題、まちづくりのシンポジウムで、建築家と並んで、IGES堀田康彦がパネリストを務めた。

IGES and Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) conducted the Regional-CES Scoping Project to assess the potential of promoting the Regional-CES concept in Asia. The scoping project organised workshops to engage key national and local stakeholders in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia in order to promote the Regional-CES concept...

Mahidol University and UNEP co-organized an expert review meeting of their on-going publication project on " Assessment Report on Plastic Pollution Management in Asia and the Pacific." ". Hotta facilitated a session 1 on policy approaches to plastic pollution with providing a guiding questions and major discussion points for the report.

Just like adaptation, L&D has grown into an extensive science and policy area and things are very complicated even for the researchers to take a stock of it and to provide solutions. A large part of this confusion is coming from the disjoint between the global negotiations and at the national level. While at the ground level, most L&D solutions are...

Adaptation effectiveness cannot be achieved by focusing on one stage of the adaptation process, rather it needs an all-encompassing approach. The current undue attention on a few stages of adaptation planning needs to be reconsidered. Adaptation effectiveness is vital to inform both national and local level adaptation actions as well as progress...