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Five years after the SDGs were adopted and just when the United Nations called for realising the Decade of Action, the COVID-19 pandemic halted the progress of the SDGs and even reversed some of the achievements that the world made over years. With most countries struggling to overcome the pandemic and revive the economy, losing the focus on the...

Japan is a member of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), known for its contributions to the computational modelling of acid rain and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In line with the Ministry of the Environment's contribution to IIASA from 2011, IGES has assumed the secretariat of the national...

Home to roughly 1.8 billion people, South Asia generates approximately 334 million tonnes of waste per year of which 174 million tonnes (57%) is organic in content. In addition to the increase in municipal solid waste, managing complex and emerging waste streams, including e-waste, food waste, construction and demolition waste, disaster waste...