Publications

Forest conservation is a key component of multilateral environmental agreements related to biodiversity conservation (Convention on Biological Diversity; CBD)) and climate change (UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; UNFCCC), and ambitious national commitments are essential to the implementation of these agreements. To understand the...

Against the backdrop of the growth of mainstream agriculture driven by export-oriented commercial crops, the recent emergence of organic farming in Thailand is remarkable. Organic farming is considered as an opportunity to encourage people to adopt a Sufficiency Economy, the guiding principle of national sustainable development, and also...

The Japan-India Technology Matchmaking Platform (JITMAP) is a multi-stakeholder platform to promote low carbon technologies (LCT) in India through facilitating business matchmaking between Japanese LCT providers, and Indian deployers. This brochure was developed for promotional purposes as part of the activities under the project on evaluation and...

The "JCM in CHARTS" series aim to provide a comprehensive and easy-to-understand description of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) in each host country. This version describes the rules, procedures, and references for implementing the JCM in Indonesia. The Bahasa Indonesia version of this CHARTS is available: https://pub.iges.or.jp/pub/jcm-dalam...

This was presented at Special Session on plastic material cycles and its management at 3RINCs 2019 held on February 28th 2019 in Bangkok.

The urban and rural regions can be well understood as the dynamic systems embedded and interconnected through their social, economic and environmental settings. These urban-rural interlinkages have important implication for understanding climate change vulnerabilities and capturing opportunities for adaptation and disaster risk reduction. However...

Urban and rural areas both depend on a shared stock of natural resources. However, their development planning is mostly focused within their established boundaries. This report is an effort to bring together innovative methods of integrating urban and rural stakeholders to manage shared natural resources. The report looks at seven different case...

MSW, Biomass waste, marine and coastal plastic waste, EPR GHG emissions, and macro-level material flows are being developed to identify current conditions and future directions. "State of the 3Rs in AP" was made to improve waste management, improve resource efficiency, promote green and circular economies, mitigate climate change, and contribute to...

Aim to improve the decision-making process＆further promote 3R policies in AP, we framed related data and information of 11 countries and 1 region in a table together with "interpretation" by local experts to provide an overview of the definitions and classifications of waste and MSW＆MSW generation, as well as the national legislative waste...

In the course of implementing the Paris climate agreement and the 2030 sustainable development goals, policymakers, practitioners, and academics have increasingly acknowledged the urgency of addressing the issue of food waste, both globally and more especially in Asian countries. Various research is being carried out in high-income countries such...