Publications

Developing a Waste Management Strategy Focusing on Waste as a Resource: the Case of Mandalay City [IGES e-Learning Series] is made up of two videos: 1) Addressing Mandalay's Waste Crisis – A Community in Transition 2) Developing a Waste Management Strategy: Transforming Waste from Problem to Resource These two educational videos highlight the...

Developing a Waste Management Strategy Focusing on Waste as a Resource: the Case of Mandalay City [IGES e-Learning Series] is made up of two videos: 1) Addressing Mandalay's Waste Crisis – A Community in Transition 2) Developing a Waste Management Strategy: Transforming Waste from Problem to Resource These two educational videos highlight the...

 Climate change strongly features in the introductory text to the SDGs, owing to broad consensus on the need to integrate it therein.  Carbon pricing, as a market mechanism, is posited as a key measure for tackling climate change in contrast to existing voluntary or regulation-driven management approaches for GHG mitigation.  Industrial...

This chapter surveys the landscape of regional governance for sustainability in Asia, focusing on government-related regional and sub-regional institutions and cooperation frameworks related to the environment. Many of these frameworks include multi-stakeholder participation of non-governmental actors, but this chapter does not survey non...

The achievement of long-term targets for climate mitigation in Japan faces several uncertainties with respect to the availability of power generation technologies. Starting with the difficult situation of nuclear power deployment after the 2011 events, the effect of technological constraints on the reduction of large amounts of greenhouse gases...

* In this report, “sustainable technology” contributes to sustainable development, but the technology itself is not necessarily sustainable. * Accelerating the adoption and use of “sustainable” technology in all countries is necessary to achieve a transformation to sustainability. * Technology is prominently highlighted in the SDGs as a means of...

Transforming Finance and Investment for the SDGs

* Agenda 2030 calls upon “all businesses to apply their creativity and innovation to solving sustainable development challenges”; * If a major part of total global annual investments by businesses was directed towards the SDGs, then their achievement would not be in question; * Most efforts to promote business involvement in the SDGs have relied on...

Transformation of Asian Cities Towards Sustainability

Conclusion: Realising the Transformative Potential of the SDGs