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Training or Learning Material
Since 2010, owing to the sustained and collaborative efforts of a wide range of local and international stakeholders, steady progress has been made in spearheading climate-friendly, community-based solid waste management approaches in Cebu City, Philippines. Thanks to the technical assistance of the Kitakyushu International Techno-Cooperative...
Data or Tool
For the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to realise the potential to transform the way that countries and cities develop for the foreseeable future, they require effective indicators and tools for measuring, analysing and communicating the progress over time at both international and national levels. The Institute for Global Environmental...
Discussion Paper
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) are engaged in various research activities to understand and promote Low Carbon Technology Transfer (LCTT). This background paper provides an overview of findings and insights in two key areas of...
Discussion Paper
The Article 6 of the Paris Agreement lays the groundwork for the operation of carbon market after 2020 by providing room for top-down and bottom-up approaches. Linkages between these mechanisms should be promoted to fully enable the potential of market mechanism to contribute to climate mitigation. Although the accounting method toward Nationally...
Discussion Paper
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were designed to be “integrated and indivisible, balanc[ing] the three dimensions of sustainable development." The growing need for integration has given rise to a number of tools and research that can help capture synergies and avoid trade-offs across goals and targets. These include tools that employ...
Submission to Policy Process
9th meeting of Working Party on Resource Productivity and Waste (WPRPW), OECD
During the 9th WPRPW meeting of OECD, food waste prevention and good practices in assessing the related policies were discussed in a roundtable session. From Japan, Hotta from IGES shared information on Japan's initiative on food waste prevention in Japan and submitted a short report to WPRPW process.
Presentation
The 9th biennial conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) and the 25th annual conference of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST)
Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) has gained increasing importance to sustainability policy, featuring prominently in global policy frameworks, including the United Nations’ 10-year framework of programmes for SCP (10YFP) and as both Goal 12 and a cross-cuttting objective of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The question remains...
Presentation
The 9th biennial conference of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) and the 25th annual conference of the International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST)
Policy intervention towards sustainable consumption is thus important in shifting the demand side/civil sector towards a sustainable socio-techno regime. i.e. altering provision systems and infrastructure. This is a shift from a technically oriented efficiency approach to a sufficiency approach. This shift in thinking is highlighted in the...
Training or Learning Material
The video explain concrete example of how to use the Indicators of Resilience in the Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes. The video introduce the example from the forests near Ecuador’s coastline live the people of Agua Blanca.
Commentary (Op. Ed)
At the May 2017 session of UN Climate Change Conference (SB 46) and the Innovate4Climate, Parties and non-Party stakeholders explored Article 6 implementation, innovation, and the role of non-Party stakeholders. The inclusion of Article 6 to cater to market-based mechanisms in the celebrated Paris Agreement (PA) was a surprising turnout even for...