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The urban and rural regions can be well understood as the dynamic systems embedded and interconnected through their social, economic and environmental settings. These urban-rural interlinkages have important implication for understanding climate change vulnerabilities and capturing opportunities for adaptation and disaster risk reduction. However...

This report demonstrates that changes in consumption patterns and dominant lifestyles are a critical and integral part of the solutions package to addressing climate change. The report fills a gap in the existing research by establishing global targets for lifestyle carbon footprints, examining current consumption patterns and their impacts on...

Phnom Penh Capital Administration (PPCA), Department of Education, Youth and Sports (DoEYS), and IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) have jointly organized the Final Workshop on Promotion of Environmental Education (E.E.) in Primary Schools in Phnom Penh, with the aim of sharing the result of sharing the result...

Against the backdrop of the growth of mainstream agriculture driven by export-oriented commercial crops, the recent emergence of organic farming in Thailand is remarkable. Organic farming is considered as an opportunity to encourage people to adopt a Sufficiency Economy, the guiding principle of national sustainable development, and also...

IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) and UNEP-IETC undertook preliminary discussions with the Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment (MOMDE) in March 2018. In October 2018, MOMDE and CCET agreed to work together in implementing the following three activities aimed at improving the waste management...

This was presented at Special Session on plastic material cycles and its management at 3RINCs 2019 held on February 28th 2019 in Bangkok.

Organic waste presents a significant portion of MSW compositions in many cities. The proper treatment of organic waste is therefore an important concern, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Biological treatment methods are widely accepted as a technical option to get the full advantage of organic waste as a resource. The most popular...

Urban policies and regulations on land use management and planning must adopt the results of the study and evaluation of disaster risks so that investments can be better targeted while decreasing the burden of environmental degradation and the risk of damage to urban infrastructure. The scheme and preparation of funding for urban development must...

一般社団法人 グローバル・コンパクト・ネットワーク・ジャパン（GCNJ）および公益財団法人 地球環境戦略研究機関（IGES＝アイジェス）は、国連の「持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）」について、日本における企業の取組み実態に関する最新の調査結果をとりまとめた、SDGs日本企業調査レポート2018年度版「主流化に向かうSDGsとビジネス～日本における企業・団体の取組み現場から～」を2月28日（木）に発刊いたしました。 3年目となる今回のレポートでは、GCNJの会員企業・団体におけるSDGsの認知度・取組みに関する経年変化に加え、雇用・労働面におけるSDGsの取組みとして、ジェンダー平等の推進を中心とするダイバーシティ経営の現状と課題を考察しています。本レポートでは...

2019年2月28日に開催した「SDGs調査レポート2018年度版」報道関係者向け説明会での報告資料です。 レポート「主流化に向かうSDGsとビジネス ～日本における企業・団体の取組み現場から～」は、以下よりご取得いただけます。 https://pub.iges.or.jp/pub/Mainstreaming_the_SDGs_in_Business