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Under the Paris Agreement, the Jakarta city government as non-state actor is preparing the Indonesia first longterm strategy at sub-national/province level through the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) to achieve Jakarta’s target 2050. The strategy was developed based on the existing masterplan and future development plan. The article aims to...

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has launched an interactive online tool to assess how the observed and projected changes in river basins relate to various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their associated targets, from both a spatial and temporal perspective. The Interactive SDG Tool for River Basins is the outcome...

環境新聞にて連載中の「シャオリュウの中国環境ウオッチ」では、地球環境戦略研究機関（IGES）北京事務所長の小柳秀明が、中国の環境の現状と対策を毎月現場から報告しています。(コロナ禍により2020年1月より日本滞在)

Agricultural certification schemes are increasingly requiring concession holders to prevent deforestation when they develop plantations but do not sufficiently address forest restoration, which is necessary to prevent further biodiversity loss. This policy brief recommends, by focusing on palm oil, that agricultural certification schemes strengthen...

Although many researchers highlight the benefits of Urban Green Spaces (UGS) to city dwellers, understanding of residents’ emotional association with UGS remains an incomplete and exciting area of place research. In this study, we conducted an empirical assessment of residents’ Place Attachment (PA) towards UGS in the Greater Tokyo region. For this...

This presentations introduces a Mutual Learning Program for Enhanced Transparency , which Institute for Global Environmental Strategies is implementing with support from the Ministry of the Environment, Japan . By making a pair of countries, this program aims to support countries and organizations in learning and practising reporting of climate...

Agricultural commodities imported by Japan have potential to drive (and reduce) deforestation in overseas countries. We evaluated international trades of so-called “forest-risk agricultural commodities" as below. - Cattle meat - Palm oil - Soybean - Tropical timber and timber products - Natural rubber - Coffee

Peatlands in Indonesia are subject to subsidence in recent years, resulting in significant soil organic carbon loss. Their degradation is responsible for several environmental issues; however, understanding the causes of peatland subsidence is of prime concern for implementing mitigation measures. Here, we employed time-series Small BAseline Subset...

Presentation at IAMC annal meeting in December 2021. The project is a part of IIASA-MOEJ collaborative project B, Bhutan component. The unexpected Covid-19 pandemic, however, hit global society at the end of 2019, and Bhutan is no exception. Covid-19 has significantly highlighted the social systematic vulnerabilities in a global context. In such a...

Poster presentation at the IAMC academic conference held online in December 2021. The authors presented the current development of Local Climate Change Action Plan for Da Nang city based on carbon neutral strategy by 2050.