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Following The Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, environmental educators in Japan needed to face a tough introspection – what could environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) have done to prevent, or reduce, its disastrous damages. In this context, promoting resilience of communities to confront disasters emerged...

KEY MESSAGES • groundwater is a key resource for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Agenda for 2030 — but is still weakly conceptualised in the SDG Indicators • there is a strong case for defining new ‘groundwater resource status indicators’ for SDG Targets 6.3, 6.4 and 6.6, because groundwater resources are integral to these but not...

Lao PDR has development of forest planation industry based on smallholders. Teak was first planted in Luang Prabang Province since 1950s. Teak plantation have capacity to provide significant financial benefits to smallholders. Although the Lao timber industry has grown rapidly over the past ten decades, the export value of finished wood products...

The Paris Agreement establishes an “enhanced transparency framework for action and support, with built-in flexibility which takes into account Parties’ different capacities” (Article 13, para. 1). The purpose of the framework for transparency of mitigation action is to “provide a clear understanding” of action, to “track progress towards achieving...

This discussion paper serves as a background paper to facilitate the discussions at the First High-Level Follow-up Dialogue on Financing for Development in Asia and the Pacific, to be held on 30-31 March, 2016 in Incheon, Korea and aims to address the following question: In what way will the Paris Agreement bring out opportunities and challenges of...

This report presents the overall summary of the findings of the country assessments conducted under the Project for Strengthening Institutional and Policy Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Integration (referred to as “CN20 project”). After conducting overall baseline studies in all Member States, the...

The main objective of this workshop was set to address the case studies of successful clean energy solutions in Asian cities (India, China and Japan) with a special focus on: 1) How clean energy planning contributes to urban resilience and sustainability? 2) Which initiatives are most promising? What are their policy implications? 3) What is the...

The realization of a sustainable city will require a transition that often involves a shift in social norms (i.e. a shared set of environmental concerns) that give rise to behavioral and/ or technological changes. This study aims to define factors that could contribute to such a transition in Bogor, Indonesia. Bogor is a satellite city of Jakarta...

JBF Capacity Building Project held the Pacific sub-regional dialogue workshop in Whangarei, New Zealand from 1 to 4 November, 2016, organised by IGES and funded by Japan. ILK holders/experts and experts on ILK from Pacific attended. The presentation by ILK holders/experts and the discussion result of the workshop are described in this proceeding of...

IGES was commissioned by MOEJ to conduct a Technology Assessment (TA) project to promote the application of Japanese low carbon technologies (LCTs) overseas, including India, Thai, and Vietnam. As one of the key activities undertaken in India, IGES developed and initiated a “Japan-India Technology Matchmaking Platform (JITMAP)” that facilitates and...