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Japan-India Technology Matchmaking Platform

13 January 2023

India - Japan Environment Week

Initiatives and Issues related to Transfer of Japanese Environmental Technologies in India through Activities of Japan-India Technology Matchmaking Platform (JITMAP)

Kansai Research Centre of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), held a seminar entitled “Initiatives and Issues related to Transfer of Japanese Environmental Technolo

Past Event

8 December 2022

Webinar on Quantifying Emissions (GHGs and SLCPs) from the Urban Infrastructures (Transport, Water, Wastewater, and Waste Management)

As non-state actors, cities play an important role in achieving Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) targets through transformative actions that address climate mitigation, urban resilience, and Sustainable Development Goals. The Sixth...

Announcement

6 February 2023

IGES Researcher Selected as a member of the Policy and Finance Committee of World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP)

Dr. Sivapuram Ventaka Rama Krishna PRABHAKAR, Principal Policy Researcher, Adaptation and Water area, IGES has been selected as a member of the Policy and Finance Committee of World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP). WASP's vision is primarily to...

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Tampere City

City of Sustainable Action 2022

Conference Proceeding

November 2022

November 2022

Using Natural Language Processing for Automating the Identification of Climate Action Interlinkages within the Sustainable Development Goals

AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium on the Role of AI in Responding to Climate Challenges

Climate action, Goal 13 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), cuts across almost all SDGs. Achieving climate goals can reinforce the achievements in many other goals, but at the same time climate mitigation and adaptation measures may generate trade-offs, such as levelling the cost of energy and transitioning away from fossil fuels...

Keywords:

Artificial Intelligence

Natural Language Processing

Climate Action

SDG interlinkages

integrated policy making

Project

Updated: February 2023

Vision 2050: Time to Transform -What actions are needed to bring about transformation?-

In October 2021, IGES published a Japanese translation of "Vision 2050 : Time to Transform" in cooperation with several Japanese companies and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Over one year later, the global situation...

Discussion Paper

November 2021

DG integration and stakeholder consultation in West Java

November 2021

Integration of climate actions and SDGs at the sub-national scale: Results from stakeholder consultation in West Java

Integrating climate actions and the SDGs poses some major governance-related challenges, in the forms of horizontal integration across different governmental agencies and vertical interactions among different levels of administrative decision making, while at the same time ensuring effective participation of relevant stakeholders in the...

Keywords:

climate change

SDGs

integration

stakeholders engagement

Past Event

19 December 2022

EANET / IIASA International Workshop

Strengthening the Science-Policy Interface for Clean Air and a Sustainable Future in Asia

In many parts of Asia, the single greatest threat to human health and a sustainable future is air pollution. A growing body of modelling research have employed emissions inventories, scenario development, and benefit estimation techniques to...

Discussion Paper

September 2021

The Global Search for Sustainable Schools Guidance Note

This Guidance Note, based on the experience of the Global Search for Sustainable Schools (GSSS), has been created to assist those interested in developing a programme to implement sustainable school projects at the sub-national, national, regional, or international level. To support the creation of this document, national coordinators and school...

Discussion Paper

September 2021

The Global Search for Sustainable Schools Programme Synthesis Report

The Global Search for Sustainable Schools (GSSS) has been carried out as one of the global initiatives under the SLE programme. The GSSS programme recognises the central role of education in creating the enabling conditions to achieve sustainable lifestyles within planetary boundaries. Education directly develops the leaders and innovators of...