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With more than half the world’s population classified as urban, whether the world achieves global climate change goals increasingly rests on cities. Yet, many policymakers at the city level place clean air and public health before mitigating climate change. Fortunately, since emissions contributing to air pollution and climate change often come...

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。

Marine plastic litter, mostly comprising single-use plastics, has been recognised as one of the world’s most urgent environmental concerns, and Vietnam has been ranked as one of the top five countries polluting the ocean with plastic waste. This paper examines Hanoi as a case study on single-use plastic by households, investigating the daily...

EUタクソノミーの概要、EUタクソノミーの技術スクリーニング基準へのステークホルダーからの反応、EUタクソノミーのプラクティカルな適用に関する議論等について概説。

In the early 2000s, Japan instituted the Great Heisei Consolidation, a national strategy to promote large-scale municipal mergers. This study analyzes the impact that this strategy could have on watershed management. We select the Lake Kasumigaura Basin, the second largest lake in Japan, for the case study and construct a dynamic expanded input...

国際資源パネル（IRP）作成による報告書「資源効率性と気候変動:低炭素未来に向けた物質効率性戦略（"Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-carbon Future"）」の政策決定者向け要約。資源効率性を持続可能な開発の達成に向けた重要要素のひとつに位置付けるG7の要請により作成され、住宅建物および軽量車両の生産・使用における物質効率性の向上によりもたらされる気候変動緩和の可能性を分析し、具体的な政策アプローチを検討しています。

The evolution of long-term sustainable societies is closely connected to the transformation of the physical built environment in which those societies operate. In this paper, we present a comprehensive set of narratives for the built environment in Japan, consistent with the shared socio-economic pathways (SSPs) framework, to assess the future...

2050年にどのような「日本社会」を構築するのかという私たちの社会のあり方を根本的に考える アジェンダなど：https://www.iges.or.jp/en/node/11095 動画：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD_hVwFksBY　

2050年脱炭素社会の実現に向けて私たちができること～コロナ禍からのグリーンリカバリー～における発表

This article was originally published in KOSMOS 7 (2020), a publication of the Expo '90 Foundation. This article discusses the need to redesign society to realise transformative change and to reconsider the relationship between humans and nature, which is considered to be a root cause of the pandemic of COVID-19. The Triple R Framework proposed by...