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Updated: April 2022

UNEA-5.2 Special webpage

The United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) is the world’s highest-level decision-making body on the environment, with a universal membership of all 193 Member States. The Assembly meets biennially in Nairobi, Kenya, to set priorities for global e

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Updated: April 2022

IGES Inputs to the 9th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD 2022)

The Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) is an annual meeting convened by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), that serves as a regional preparatory for the United Nations High-level P

Announcement

31 March 2022

IGES receives Certificate of Merit from the Chairman of the Da Nang People’s Committee

IGES was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Chairman of the Da Nang People’s Committee in recognition of its outstanding contribution to sustainable urban and socio-economic development in the city through leadership in a number of initiatives and...

Past Event

22 March 2022

Integrated Programme for Better Air Quality in Asia

Technology Roundtable and Fair for Combating Air Pollution and Climate Change in Asia

The IBAQ is supporting the implementation of clean air action plans and technologies to help address air pollution and climate change in Asia. Aligned with this objective, IGES and Clean Air Asia (CAA) co-organised a virtual technology event with...

Past Event

28 March 2022

APFSD side event

A One Health Approach to Regulating Ocean Microplastics: Translating Advocacy into Action

The COVID-19 crisis has focused a growing amount of attention on the close interrelationship between human, animal and environmental health. Efforts to capture this interrelationship in policy and practice are often summarised under the heading of “o

Past Event

21 January 2022

International Workshop

Building Resilience to the Risk of Compound and Cascading Disasters in the Context of Climate Change - Launch of the New e-learning Course on AP-PLAT

During this era that is defined by the climate crisis, we see a deepening risk of natural disasters in every corner of the world. The Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), along with IGES, has developed the e-learning course "Building...

Announcement

23 March 2022

Case Study on Safe and Sustainable Healthcare Waste Management

The IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) has published a case study report on safe and sustainable management of Health Care Waste, based on a project at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH), one of the...

Announcement

22 March 2022

Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19

An employee at the at the Kansai Research Centre (Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture) of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and an employee at its headquarters (Hayama, Kanagawa) tested positive for COVID-19 on 15 and 17 March 2022...

Past Event

16 March 2022

Greening Health Care Waste Management: Policies and Good Practices

The provision of sustainable health care waste management (HCWM) has been receiving increasing global attention. Due to the risk of COVID-19 transmission, there has been a growing need for proper medical waste management worldwide, particularly in de

Announcement

17 March 2022

Joint Submissions to the Global Stocktake of the Paris Agreement (GST)

IGES submitted five joint submissions to the first Global Stocktake (GST) of the Paris Agreement, together with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), among others.