Search

（Japanese title: GOSAT・都市レベル温室効果ガス排出量のトラッキング） This submission provides our input for the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement. Our input focuses on tracking city-level emission changes by the JAXA/GOSAT GHG product. Summary of the submission: Cities are major sources of GHG emissions, consuming about 75% of the world ’s energy and...

(Japanese title: 日本の一般旅客機を活用したリアルタイムでの温室効果ガス排出量の観測) This submission provides our input for the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement. Our input focuses on real-time anthropogenic emission observations from Japanese passenger aircrafts in support of the monitoring of the climate mitigation progress. Summary of the submission: Real-time...

（Japanese title: 熱帯林違法伐採の検知（JJ-FAST）） This submission provides our input for the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement. Our input focuses on a satellite-based deforestation monitoring system for tropical forests, “JICA-JAXA Forest Early Warning System in the Tropics (JJ-FAST)”. Summary of the submission: A satellite-based deforestation...

（Japanese title: 世界のマングローブ林面積・変化（GMW）） This submission provides our input for the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement. Our input focuses on a satellite-based map of global mangrove extent and changes: Global Mangrove Watch (GMW). Summary of the submission: Nature-based Solutions (NbS), including coastal and marine NbS, such as...

Between the 1990s and early 2000s, large-scale illegal dumping and improper treatment of medical waste was a common occurrence in Japan, and became a serious social issue owing to the potential human health risk and environmental damage resulting from the waste itself, which could be infectious or contained sharps or chemical and toxic substances...

This case study reports on the development of a healthcare waste management (HCWM) system at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) in Nepal where the intervention began in 2014 with support from HECAF 360, a local NGO, and Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), an international NGO, and WHO Nepal. It describes the approach and path followed by...

（Japanese title: GOSAT・10年スケールでの世界の温室効果ガス濃度の観測） This submission provides our input to the first Global Stocktake under the Paris Agreement. Our input focuses on the trends of the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere observed by the Greenhouse gas Observing SATellite (GOSAT). Summary of the submission: A decadal global JAXA/GOSAT GHG product...

This chapter describes the current status and challenges regarding the governance of wastewater surveillance systems against COVID-19. Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater has been proposed to be a potential tool to understand the actual prevalence of COVID-19 in the community, and it could be an effective tool during the pandemic to monitor the...

This short essay discusses the national policy development in Japan moving from a society based on mass-production, mass-consumption, and mass-disposal towards establishing a Sound Material-Cycle Society (SMC). It looks at how Japan has successfully created a local resource efficiency and regional vitalisation based on a harmonised approach toward...

The crisis ignited by COVID-19 has transformed the volume and composition of waste generation and requires a dynamic response from policy makers. This study selected Bangkok as a case study to semi-quantitatively examine the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on consumer-generated food and plastic waste by examining changes in lifestyles and...