Publications

The slides were presented in the stakeholder workshop, Japan-Europe Dialogue 2019, held at YCU (Yokohama City University) in April 2019. This presentation tries to identify the current policy status of plastics/marine litter issues in the ASEAN region as an initial finding of the commissioned research project.

Asia is home to 60% of the world’s total population, with further population growth forecast in the future. In addition, the region accounts for 30% of global GDP and by 2050 this share is expected to exceed 50%, making Asia the region with the most dynamic growth in the world. Against this background, there is a worsening impact on the environment...

人間の福利を満たすレベルに充分な程度の経済発展や消費のあり方を希求する考え方。 持続可能性(Sustainability)に関連して充足性が議論される場合には、２つの大きな潮流がある。第１は、経済活動を際限なく拡大することへの反省を込めて、充足性が議論される場合である。ブータンの「Gross National Happiness」指標や、タイの「Sufficiency Economy（セータキット・ポーピアン）」の背景となっている。第２は、経済開発と資源利用ないしは環境負荷との「切り離し」に関する場合である。「切り離し」を実現する方法としては、これまで技術改良による効率性の改善が主流であったが、効率性の改善が消費や環境負荷の抑制につながらずに資源の総消費や環境負荷総量を高めてしまう...

Clean Air Asia (CAA) organised a training on the Guidance Framework for Better Air Quality in Mongolia to enable local-level air quality managers to implement strategies and programmes towards air quality improvement and climate change mitigation. To conduct the training, CAA invited IGES to deliver the co-benefits training for the representatives...

Despite the region’s vulnerability to climate change, there is a serious lack of capacity in Asia for developing quality project proposals for climate change adaptation that can attract financing, which largely hinders implementation of Paris Agreement and the 2030 Development Agenda. Capacity building programmes are needed so that local...

This presentation summarised the work experience from Japan case in G7 fossil fuel subsidy scorecard (https://www.odi.org/publications/11131-g7-fossil-fuel-subsidy-scorecard).

This policy brief suggests six priorities for developed and emerging economies represented by G20 countries to mainstream circular economy and society globally, as follows: 1) need to capture the momentum raised by public attention on marine plastic pollution; 2) raise the level of ambition of Extended Producer Responsibility; 3) provide policy...

Rapid changes in land use and land cover pattern have exerted an irreversible change on different natural resources, and water resources in particular, throughout the world. Khambhat City, located in the Western coastal plain of India, is witnessing a rapid expansion of human settlements, as well as agricultural and industrial activities. This...

This study investigates the stringency of Japan's greenhouse gas emissions reduction target for 2030 (nationally determined contribution: NDC), focusing on the macroeconomic assumptions of Kaya indicators and others previously overlooked, e.g. GDP per working-age population. It also conducted a decomposition analysis in light of historic political...

Integrative approaches to land management, such as ecosystems-based approaches and landscape approaches, together with sustainable infrastructure and the sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity, provide multiple benefits. By providing stakeholders with a means to work through competing interests over land and natural resources, while at...