Publications

Strategies for Building Resilience against Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa

This proposal (Version 3) aims to illustrate description of the concrete options for guidance on robust accounting under Article 6, paragraph 2 of the Paris Agreement.

This presentation examines interlinkages between lifestyles change, water-energy saving practices at household level and GHG mission reduction. A number of good pratices and lesson learned from international case studies have been presented.

This presentation gives a snapshot on the differences between MRV systems and climate actions to support NDCs in the Paris Agreeement era and the Kyoto Protocol era.

Developing Asia’s growing demand for fossil fuels not only adds pressure on the domestic economy of each country due to higher energy bills but also strangulates the region’s environmental health with the growing emissions. The need for poverty reduction and economic development simultaneously forces the region to continue to depend heavily on...

The Routledge Handbook of Energy in Asia presents a comprehensive review of the unprecedented growth of Asian energy over the past quarter of a century. It provides insightful analysis into variation across the continent, whilst highlighting areas of cross-learning and regional cooperation between the developed and developing countries of Asia...

At 13th APRSCP meeting, S-16 research group organized a round table session titled "SCP Challenges and Opportunities from Four Perspectives – Resources, Lifecycle, Lifestyle, Sufficiency". There, Hotta presented how SCP policy design will be changed systematically in the era of SDGs and Paris Agreement referring to Sufficiency Approach.

Funded by the Government of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has been conducting empirical studies on carbon pricing in Northeast Asia. The related policy progress is generally laggard in this region compared with that in Europe. One of the main barriers may be attributed to the high resistance from...

On 5-8 September 2017, the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment (the Summit) was convened in Bangkok, Thailand. This briefing note draws upon the observations of researchers from the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) to underline key points involving the SDGs, air pollution, and resource efficiency that stood out...

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