Publications

Agricultural smoke from rice residue fires is now regarded as a dominant source of India’s autumn haze. Yet, the degree to which yield-driven intensification amplifies this pollution remains uncertain. To assess this environmental issue, there is an urgent need to analyze long-term datasets and to develop fine-grained fire-severity mapping. This...

Global food security is increasingly shaped by the convergence of climate change, water scarcity, energy transitions, and evolving food systems, creating complex and interdependent risks that cannot be addressed in isolation. This paper highlights the urgent need for integrated, systems-based approaches to understand and manage these interconnected...

The Seventh G20 Report on Action against Marine Plastic Litter is the seventh compilation of policies and measures undertaken by countries and international organisations globally to tackle marine plastic litter, and is prepared under the leadership of South Africa, the G20 Presidency for 2025, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment...

Agriculture lies at the centre of the climate change challenge, simultaneously functioning as a highly climate-vulnerable sector and a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions through land use, crop production, livestock, and food systems. This presentation examines the climate change–agriculture nexus through a comparative analysis of...

Plastic waste in Indonesia threatens environmental sustainability and health. This study explores waste bank as a social innovation based on the 3R principle, as a means of education, behavior change in waste management, and the implementation of the circular economy. Aims: This study aims to identify and describe the practices and reasons of...

The Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD), a cornerstone of national food security, is increasingly affected by salinity intrusion arising from the combined influences of upstream hydropower development, climate change, and sea-level rise. Despite growing attention to this issue, the long-term hydrological mechanisms shaping these changes remain...

This book deals with reclamation of abandoned mines and carbon capture neutralization. It discusses various mining technologies particularly in the treatment of chemicals in waste water and bacterial issues especially in acid mines drainage and reclamation of abandoned mines. The focus being on gold mines, the book looks at treatments from a...

This brochure introduces the outline and ongoing 25 projects of the City-to-City Collaboration for Zero-Carbon Society Program (C3P) by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.

2025年11月6日から22日にかけ、ブラジルのベレンにおいて国連気候変動枠組条約第30回締約国会議（COP30）が開催された。本稿では、適応に関する世界全体の目標（GGA）の指標採択をはじめとする同会議の主要な成果を概観する。とりわけGGA指標については、この国際的決定が民間企業の活動や市民社会とどのように関わるのか、その背景や今後の展望を踏まえて考察する。

The global environmental governance landscape is undergoing a paradigmatic shift from state-centric pollution control to market-based Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). This report provides an exhaustive analysis of the EPR landscape within the Indo-Pacific region, contrasting the mature, strict-liability frameworks of East Asia (Japan, South...