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Submission to Policy Process

March 2021

IGES Key Messages on “Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia and the Pacific” Prepared for the Asia Pacific Forum for Sustainable Development (APFSD)

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has developed the following key messages to share at the Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD 2021). The messages are organized around six APFSD 2021 agenda items, and outline how policymakers can preserve a harmonious relationship between nature and humanity in the COVID-19...

Presentation

March 2021

Key risks and adaptation options in Asia - An extract of recent global assessments

APAN Forum Special Session

The presentation summarizes key climate risks and sectoral adaptation options for Asia from the synthesis of multiple global and regional assessments, including recent assessment reports of IPCC and IPBES. The talk was delivered on a special session on Adaptation Gaps in APAN Forum hosted by IGES and the Ministry of Environment.

Policy Brief

March 2021

Local Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (LBSAPs) to accelerate actions for biodiversity by local governments

A Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework is currently under consideration and will be adopted at the next meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the CBD (CBD COP 15). In Japan, discussions are underway to revise the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP). Local governments are expected to develop new, or revise existing, Local...

Book

February 2021

Renewable Energy Transition in Asia: Policies, Markets and Emerging Issues

The Asian countries have diverse economic profiles, energy consumption patterns, greenhouse emissions, climatic conditions and socio-political landscapes. These dynamics bring into focus that drawing a uniform framework to define the energy transition process for the region is a difficult task. Keeping in view of this reality, this book identifies...

Keywords:

Co-innovation

Working Paper

March 2021

Governing the SDGs in the COVID-era: Bringing back hierarchic styles of governance?

ADBI Working Paper Series

Adopted in 2015, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were intended to motivate governments and the international community to address the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. However, most countries are not on pace to achieve the SDGs. The economic and human toll of the...

Policy Brief

November 2020

Leveraging the Sustainable Development Goals to Enhance Environmental Sustainability in Asia and the Pacific

AD Briefs

An ADB stocktake highlights that weak governance and a lack of incentives and finance are among the factors holding back the region’s progress on environmental sustainability. The authors urge decision-makers to prioritize investments that privilege the environment and to apply integrated development approaches, systems thinking, and a circular...

Discussion Paper

March 2021

Understanding Article 6.2 reporting with the JCM: Experience from mutual learning program

Executive summary Under Article 6 paragraph 2 (Article 6.2) of the Paris Agreement (PA), Parties may take cooperative approaches in the implementation and achievement of nationally determined contributions (NDCs). The draft guidance of Article 6.2 stipulates, inter alia, the reporting requirements for the participating Parties to engage in a...

Keywords:

transparency

Commentary (Op. Ed)

April 2021

Evaluation of options for reporting under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement

Commentary on reporting options under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement. In this paper, we provided a summary of reporting options and its evaluation for the three information items which are required in the initial report and regular information under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement: 1) Timing of submission of the initial report; 2)...

Keywords:

transparency

Peer-reviewed Article

March 2021

Sustainable transitions towards a resilient and decentralised future: Japan’s Circulating and Ecological Sphere (CES)

In Sustainability Science

Global environmental change, the depletion of natural resources, and unacceptable levels of pollution, among other anthropogenic impacts on the planet and its ecosystems, demand a radical shift in the way humankind develops. Global agreements like the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” or the “Paris Agreement on Climate Change” seek to...

Peer-reviewed Article

March 2021

Urban–rural linkages: effective solutions for achieving sustainable development in Ghana from an SDG interlinkage perspective

In Sustainability Science

Urbanization and concomitant challenges pose a great threat to sustainable development. Urban and rural development interacts through the flows of people, materials, energy, goods, capital, and information. Without building sound urban–rural linkages, achieving development in one area could compromise it in another area. Achieving sustainable...