Search

Across the world, the rate of urbanization is increasing at a rapid pace. As the areas in which the majority of people live and work, cities are increasingly acknowledged as the arena in which solutions to major societal and environmental challenges must be implemented. This rapid change has put many cities under significant strain. Local...

The regional assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services for Asia and the Pacific of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES/6/INF/5) was accepted by the IPBES Plenary at its Fifth Meeting in March 2018. The clean, published version will be available to the public at a later date.

Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world with a total population of more than 260 million people, of which about 52% live in urban areas. It has been predicted that by 2025, 67.5% of population will live in cities. This situation will create a huge burden for basic urban infrastructure, especially sewerage systems. It is estimated...

This project, Envisioning Future Low-Carbon Lifestyles and Transitioning Instruments, is a part of the Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns. The project examines how the way we live our daily lives – our choices, habits and the context within which...

This report documents the proceedings of the workshop, which was designed to raise awareness, facilitate dialogue and promote knowledge sharing on effective SLCP mitigation actions in the MSW sector, with a view towards fostering a network of engaged actors from across the Asia-Pacific region. Workshop discussion focused on understanding drivers of...

This paper summarises the results of a literature review, examines the status of MSWM in the Philippines, makes some efforts to estimate the SLCP emissions in the country’s waste sector based on available data, and offers preliminary projections. The paper includes six sections. After a brief introduction in Section 1, background information on...

中国共産党大会は環境政策を変えるのか

This document is a presentation given at one of the Thematic Tracks of ISAP2017. It introduced IGES-TERI efforts to promote environmentally sound technologies through a stakeholder’s matchmaking approach.

The presentation was presented at a training program on Japanese low carbon technologies and best practices which was held on 27 Sep.January 2017, Pune, India. It highlighted IGES-TERI efforts to promote LCT deployment in India with special emphasis on their efforts to initiate Japan-India Technology Matchmaking platform (JITMAP)

We showed the difficulty to realise sustainable living in terms of reduction of ecological footprint of final demand (EF_FD). In Japan, a high rate carbon tax effectively reduces carbon footprint of production (50% reduction from the base year), but EF_FD reduces much less (24.7% reduction by upstream carbon tax and 27.0% by midstream carbon tax)...