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This article explores how genuine stakeholder engagement can drive sustainable development by fostering trust, empowering communities, and strengthening governance. Drawing on experiences from Santa Rosa City in the Philippines and Shimokawa Town in Japan—two places facing vastly different challenges—it illustrates how meaningful participation can...

This presentation, delivered at the ASCEND Workshop in Cape Town, addresses how to frame non-economic losses and damages (NELDs) for a systematic synthesis of knowledge in Africa. It emphasises the complexity and multidimensionality of NELDs, shaped by diverse disciplines such as social sciences, environmental studies, law, and politics. The...

The Integrative Strategic Research Programme for the 9th Phase (ISRP9) is a four-year programme for IGES to implement from July 2025 to June 2029.

Forest ecosystems of the western Himalaya are simultaneously shaped by steep topography, intense human pressure and a rapidly warming climate. This study assesses the spatial distribution and future changes in forest resilience potential (FRP) across Uttarakhand, India, under current conditions and future high-emission climate scenarios. We...

We attempt a bottom-up approach to developing NFF-based localized future scenarios up to 2050 that capture these local concerns and efforts. Our exercise started with interpreting the Ramsar Site Management Plan (2022) from the NFF lens, followed by a stakeholder workshop in 2024 to flesh out multiple future scenarios. A spatially-explicit...

The Mutual Learning Program for Enhanced Transparency (MLP) is one of the effective approaches to enhance individual reporting capabilities as part of transparency capacity building. This guidance explains the overall flow of the MLP, reporting exercises and the consideration points for each actor (e.g. Secretariat, technical experts, participants)...

国連世界気象機関（WMO）は、2024年が史上最も暑い年であったと発表した。WMOによれば、2024年は産業革命前の水準と比べて、1.55度の温度上昇が観測されたという。パリ協定の長期的な気温目標は、単年で評価するものではない。とはいえ、温度上昇を2度よりも十分に低くし、また1.5度に抑える努力を追求する、というパリ協定の目標達成が危ぶまれる実情であることに変わりはない。そのため、温度上昇を食い止めるための緩和努力の益々の加速と並んで、すでに変化し、今後さらに変化していく気候の状況に社会の側の対応を促す適応の取り組みも、さらに重要となるだろう。さらに、適応努力をもってしても対応しきれない場合に出た被害に対処する、いわゆる損失と損害と呼ばれるアジェンダも、注目を集めている...

This report presents the results of the technical expert review of the first biennial transparency report of Guyana, conducted by a technical expert review team in accordance with the modalities, procedures and guidelines for the transparency framework for action and support referred to in Article 13 of the Paris Agreement. The review took place...

This paper re-examines Agenda 21 for lessons to improve SDG implementation and contribute to discussions on the post-2030 sustainable development agenda. The SDGs' roots in Agenda 21 have been almost forgotten, as analyses of the SDGs' creation and structure highlighted “governance through goals” as a core feature and presented SDGs as the MDGs'...