Publications

This report summarizes the key discussion points of the two-day Asian Transparency Workshop on December 13-14, 2021. The workshop aims to strengthen understanding of how to prepare reporting in Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs) under Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF). More specifically, the workshop focused on reporting mitigation actions...

On Thursday 2 December 2021, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) convened a session entitled “Landscape Approaches for Biodiversity, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Co-benefits” at the 13th International Forum for Sustainable Asia...

This study utilized MIKE 11 to quantify the spatio-temporal dynamics of water quality parameters (Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD 5), Dissolved Oxygen (DO) and temperature) in the Long Xuyen Quadrangle area of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. Calibrated for the year of 2019 and validated for the year of 2020, the developed model showed a significant...

Key messages There is a need for a broader and holistic effort to address a host of environmental issues and challenges faced by the Tonle Sap Lake (TSL). In order to realize a sustainable and resilient TSL and its basin, this policy guide suggests three resilience enhancement measures: i) Ecohydrological resilience enhancement measures, ii) Land...

Official stakeholder consultation meeting was organized between experts team and Da Nang city authority under the project 'MOEJ City to City collaborations' for the development of Local Climate Change Action Plan (LCCAP) which was chaired by the Department of Natural Resource and Environment, Da Nang city. Key departments provided inputs and...

Microplastics (MPs) have been identified as an emerging soil pollutant and a global environmental concern. Scientists have recently paid attention to the contamination of soil by MPs as their detrimental impacts on soil systems are largely unknown. MPs are considered to be vectors for other soil contaminants, such as potentially toxic elements...

Considering water as a limiting factor for socio-economic development, especially in arid/semi-arid regions, both scientific communities and policymakers are interested in groundwater recharge-related data. India is fast moving toward a crisis of groundwater due to intense abstraction and contamination. There is a lack of understanding regarding...

Unless the circular economy is implemented on a global scale, a country or a city committed to becoming completely circular will likely face challenges when partaking in the global market. The global market should have to accept policies that will, for example, allow the import of materials, resources and products that comply with CE practices...

As climate change will lead to more severe and frequent weather-related hazards, the need to deal with compound and cascading disasters has become an emerging issue. The e-learning course “Building resilience to compound and cascading disaster risks” under AP-PLAT capacity development programs objects for the local/national government officers to...

Hosted by the PCCB, and with the support of the Capacity-building subdivision of the UNFCCC, the 3rd Capacity-building Hub took place over the course of six thematic days from 3 to 10 November 2021 at COP 26 in Glasgow. The outcomes of discussions in the 3rd Capacity-building Hub show considerable synergies and shared priorities across different...