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This paper examines the complex relationship between climate change and food security in the Asia-Pacific region. It demonstrates how climate change disrupts food systems through impacts on crop yields, fisheries, and supply chains, while interacting with socio-economic inequalities, governance failures, and competing resource demands to produce...

Non-economic loss and damage (NELD) associated with climate change is increasingly recognized as a critical yet under-assessed dimension of climate risk, particularly in vulnerable regions such as Africa. This study presents an analytical framework for synthesizing evidence from a systematic literature review conducted under the ASCEND initiative...

Countries are increasingly identifying the location and quality of natural capital (NC) and the benefits it provides, extending these assessments beyond rural areas to include cities (Willis and Petrokofsky 2017). To better evaluate urban sustainability, an economic framework based on the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI) has been introduced, enabling...

Plastic waste in Indonesia threatens environmental sustainability and health. This study explores waste bank as a social innovation based on the 3R principle, as a means of education, behavior change in waste management, and the implementation of the circular economy. Aims: This study aims to identify and describe the practices and reasons of...

2025 年 1 月の第 2 次トランプ政権発足以来、米大統領府は、'\リ協定脱退や石炭産業活性化に関する大統領令を相次いで発出し、米環境保護庁(EPA)は、温室効果ガスの影響に関する危険性認定を含む約 30 項目の環境規制の見直しを公表するなど、トランプ政権は、バイデン政権が進めてきた脱炭素政策からの全面的な見直しを目指しており、米国の環境、気候変動政策は大きく転換している。 また、トランプ政権は国連組織等の国際機関への拠出の一時停止や見直しを行うとともに、国務省、EPA、USAID をはじめとする連邦政府組織の見直し、大規模な人員削減を実施。USAID の機能停止により、世界各地での支援が停止するなど、世界中に影響が広がっている。 本業務では、こうした米国における環境...

The survey aimed to reveal the status of, and challenges and opportunities in, biodiversity efforts by individual companies in Japan, and collectively as the Japanese business sector, referring to key global frameworks such as the Kunming Montreal Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Taskforce on...

This recipe book is a collection of dishes prepared during the cooking sessions of the "Workshop on 1.5℃ Lifestyles in Kitakyushu," which focuses on addressing global warming. It features easy and delicious recipes that can be made at home, incorporating ideas to reduce food waste and using alternative meats and seasonal vegetables.

Japan-India Technology Matchmaking Platform (JITMAP) is a multi-stakeholder platform promoting the transfer of Japanese environmental technologies to India for its decarbonisation, established in FY2016 by IGES-KRC in collaboration with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) of India. The brochure features the outline of the JITMAP, its...