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PR, Newsletter or Other
This brochure introduces the outline and ongoing 19 project of the City-to-City Collaboration for Zero-Carbon Society programme by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan.
Presentation
Round table for “From satellite observation to national GHG inventories: inputs to the Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement”
This was presented at a roundtable entitled “From satellite observation to national GHG inventories: inputs to the Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement” on February 2022. A national GHG inventory is an essential input for the Global Stocktake (GST), which began from COP26, aiming to assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of...
Non Peer-reviewed Article
Initially, the China ETS was intended to be started by 2017, encompassing eight major industries, such as electricity and iron & steel. As the result, the actual start-up only included the power generation sector, with a four-year delay. The delay was attributed to the reasons like low-quality emission data submitted by relevant companies and slow...
Issue Brief
This IGES Issue Brief is an update of policy developments related to sustainable finance in Japan between October 2021 and January 2022. The highlights of developments on sustainable finance in this period was work pertaining to sustainability-related disclosure. At the Financial Services Agency (FSA), the ‘Disclosure Working Group’ continued with...
Book Chapter
In Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Observed surface air temperature has increased in the 20th century all over Asia (high confidence1). Asian countries are experiencing a hotter summer climate, resulting in an increase in energy demand for cooling at a rapid rate, together with population growth (high confidence). A decrease in precipitation influences energy demand as well, as...
Peer-reviewed Article
In Sustainability Science
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a complex system of 17 goals and 169 individual targets whose interactions can be described in terms of co-benefits and trade-offs between policy actions. We analyse in detail target-by-target interlinkage networks established by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) SDG...
Book Chapter
In Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a particular focus on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Since IPCC AR5, human influence on the Earth’s climate has become unequivocal, increasingly apparent, and...
Presentation
Plastic Waste Management & Single Use Plastics In India 2022 Roles and Responsibilities of Multiple Stakeholders
Hotta made a guest presentation on how extended producer responsibility can be applied in the context of emerging economies such as India in the occasion of policy dialogue orgnized by Policy Times of India.
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Conference Proceeding
The international workshop “Building Resilience to the Risk of Compound and Cascading Disasters in the Context of Climate Change: Launch of the New e-learning Course on AP-PLAT” was held online on 21 January 2022, organised by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ) and co-organised by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)...
Presentation
JCM Global Partnership Meeting
1. Overview of Article 6 decisions and necessary arrangements for the participation to Art. 6.2 • Overview of Art. 6 rulebook • Major decisions and future perspectives on Art. 6.2 and Art. 6.4 • Necessary arrangements for the participation to Art. 6.2 (e.g. JCM) 2. Sharing experiences from the Mutual Learning Program for Enhanced Transparency (MLP)...