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At Osaka Expo 2025, EU pavillion organised nine in-person events over three days on circular economy. On September 23, 2025, the event organized a session on " Plastic planet: Innovating solutions for a cleaner tomorrow". Hotta of IGES was a panelist of the session. The session is available in Youtube.

The EPR AMS Focal Point Workshop aims to serve as a platform for peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, fostering capacity building and regional collaboration. This workshop brought together participants to evaluate the merits and challenges of different EPR schemes—such as mandatory and voluntary—share experiences and best practices and discuss...

The presentation examines the need for a paradigm shift from traditional national security to one that incorporates climate security as a fundamental component of human security. The study, based on field research in Sri Lanka, investigates how National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) can be restructured to explicitly address climate security concerns...

The global environmental crises – climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation and desertification, and pollution and waste – are damaging human well-being and hindering progress of the economic and social dimensions of all the SDGs. Addressing these crises is a prerequisite for achieving the SDGs. Therefore, environmental goals and targets...

On December 23, 2024, Yokohama city, Da Nang city, and IGES co-organized the Final WS of JICA Partnership Project for Promoting Source Separation and Recycling (the 3Rs) in Da Nang City: Collaboration building on Yokohama’s Experience on Municipal Solid Waste Management (D-3RYM). The WS was -To review and confirm the key outcomes and achievements...

Hotta contributed as a speaker of SESSION 9. ACHIEVING CIRCULARITY OF PLASTIC: INSIGHTS INTO PLASTIC MANAGEMENT AND PLASTIC LEAKAGE MONITORING.

Hotta contributed as a panleist of the Side Event for INC-5 Plastic Pollution organized by Korean Environment Institute organized in November 2024 in Busan, Republic of Korea. Objectives of this roundtable include: 1) Explore policy approaches to plastic pollution: Discuss and evaluate various policy strategies to combat plastic pollution at...

こ のイベントは、駐日オマーン大使館、日本環境省、㈱エックス都市研究所の共催で、 両国の相互理解を深め、関係者間のネットワーク作りを目指しているもの。堀田は、IGESの循環経済・廃棄物分野での国際協力事例を紹介した。

2024年11月に仙台で開催された第16回エコバランス会議で開催されたシンポジウムにおいて、日本およびアジアでLCAやSCP研究を 主導する研究者を交えて、今後の持続可能な消費と生産に関する研究に期待される役割を論じた。 日本LCA学会の国際連携賞受賞を記念して、アジア太平洋持続可能な消費と生産円卓会議（APRSCP）と2016年度～2020年度まで実施された環境研究総合推進費戦略的研究プロジェクトS-16“PECoP-Asia”の共同研究者が企画したものである。 IGESの堀田は、APRSCP会長およびS-16のテーマリーダーとして、本発表を行った。

Urban wetlands provide vital ecosystem services such as habitat provision, water purification, flood regulation, climate regulation, food provision, and recreation. However, rapid urban expansion has placed tremendous pressure on urban wetland environments, leading to their shrinkage. East Kolkata Wetland (EKW), a Ramsar site near urban area noted...