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13 November 2025

COP30 Japan Pavilion Seminar

Advancing Resilient Supply Chains through EWS

This seminar will discuss supply chain resilience, whose importance is growing amid the expanding impacts of climate change, and the potential of Early Warning Systems (EWS) to support its realisation. It will begin with an opening address by MOEJ...

Peer-reviewed Article

February 2026

Actions and actors driving transformative change for global sustainability

In Nature Sustainability

The urgent need for transformative change to address the intertwined crises of climate change and biodiversity loss is widely recognized. Here, drawing on work originally conducted within the IPBES Transformative Change Assessment and using a bibliometric analysis of more than 4 million scholarly documents, we examine the actions and actors driving...

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Decision making

Sustainability

Translation of non-IGES Material

March 2026

バリューチェーンにおける物理的リスクとレジリエンス　経営層の連携のための CEOハンドブック

「まえがき」より我々を取り巻く環境が変化していることは、もはや周知の事実である。異常気象・慢性的な気候変動・環境悪化は、今やますます業務運営に支障を生じさせ、より広範なシステム全体へのショックを引き起こしている。サプライチェーンの寸断から、資産の損傷・インフラへの衝撃・公衆衛生の危機・地域社会の崩壊に至るまで—多くの企業がすでにその影響を肌で感じている。そして、脅威はニュースの見出しを飾るような大災害だけにとどまらない。目立たず、じわじわと慢性的に進行する悪影響が、静かに企業価値を蝕んでいるのである。しかも、それらは多くの場合、既存のシステムでは予兆を検知することも、管理することも難しい形で進行していく。（中略）ビジネスリーダーであるCEOには今こそ...

Keywords:

physical risk value chain resilience

Peer-reviewed Article

November 2025

Lifestyle change modelling for climate change mitigation: Complementary strengths, policy support, and research avenues

In Environmental Science & Policy

Lifestyle changes are an essential, complementary measure for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and, therefore, also an important ingredient to climate policy. Computational models of lifestyle changes and their contribution to climate change mitigation can provide valuable insights in support of decision-making by individuals and policymaking. In...

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Climate-friendly lifestyles

Climate Policy

Agent-based modelling

Input-output analysis

Integrated assessment modelling

Life cycle assessment

Peer-reviewed Article

January 2026

Global waste sector dataset (1990–2050): scenario-based projections of generation, emissions, and socioeconomic drivers

In Frontiers in Environmental Science

Strategy planning for global climate goals requires structured, multisectoral data linking environmental pressures with socioeconomic drivers across time and geography. However, internationally harmonized, machine-actionable datasets integrating waste generation, waste-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and socioeconomic indicators remain...

Keywords:

AI-ready

climate data

GDP

Greenhouse gas emissions

municipal solid waste

national-scale

planetary boundaries

population

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2025

AeroHydro Culture: An Integrated Approach to Improve Crop Yield and Ecological Restoration Through Root–Microbe Symbiosis in Tropical Peatlands

In Land

Tropical peatlands in Indonesia are increasingly degraded by conventional oil palm practices involving drainage and chemical fertilizers. This study evaluates AeroHydro Culture (AHC), a method applying microbe-enriched organic media aboveground, as a sustainable alternative that maintains high groundwater levels while supporting plant productivity...

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symbiosis

PGPR

rhizosphere regulation

LSM

GWL

Peer-reviewed Article

September 2025

Examination of barriers to climate change adaptation: Experience from Semarang city, –Indonesia

In Urban Governance

Various studies have been conducted on the barriers to climate change adaptation in specific contexts, but they often focus only on particular sectors. This research aims to comprehensively assess the barriers to climate change adaptation across various stakeholder sectors at the city level. The case study in Semarang City is expected to provide...

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Climate Change Adaptation

Barriers to adaptation

City-level adaptation

Transdisciplinary approach

Semarang city

Peer-reviewed Article

October 2025

The Circular Economy and Climate Change: The State of National and Global Evidence on Mitigation Potential

In Annual Review Environment and Resources

While global resource use and GHG emissions keep increasing, the circular economy (CE) has ascended to the forefront of global policy, business and research agendas. Through narrower, slower, and more closed material cycles, the CE aims to avoid waste and reduce virgin raw material demand, thereby potentially also mitigating energy demand and GHG...

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circularity

sustainable resource use

ecological economics

integrated assessment model

computable general equilibrium model

Peer-reviewed Article

March 2026

Left behind but not forgotten: How psychosocial integration shapes non-migration aspirations in climate-vulnerable coastal Bangladesh

In Habitat International

In climate-vulnerable coastal regions, left-behind family members often choose to stay despite having migration pathways through departed household members, challenging conventional theories of family reunification. This study examines the influence of psychosocial integration on non-migration aspirations among 411 left-behind households in coastal...

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Environmental non-migration

Left-behind households

Psychosocial integration

Climate vulnerability

place attachment

Coastal Bangladesh

Conference Paper

November 2025

An Integrated Municipal Solid Waste Management Scheme for Carbon Footprint Reduction: Leveraging the Informal Sector in Hanoi

4th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring and Engineering Structures (SHM&ES 2025)

Municipal solid waste (MSW) management in developing countries largely relies on open dumping and minimal sanitary landfilling, contributing significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The waste management sector is a global concern due to its impact on climate change, with inefficient collection systems and improper disposal exacerbating...

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Informal recycling

Greenhouse gas

ExSS/waste

Low-carbon development

Carbon footprint reduction

Hanoi