Search | IGES

Past Event

22 February 2022

ACP/ IIASA International Webinar

How can systems analysis help align climate change, air pollution, and sustainable development policies in Asia: Opportunities for collaboration

For many countries in Asia, rapid development has come at steep environmental costs. While the COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous suffering and loss, it has also opened opportunities for countries in Asia to lower those costs by transitioning...

Project

Updated: February 2022

UNEA-5.1 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

Past Event

22 February 2022

IGES Webinar

Accelerating ESG Regional Finance – Lessons from EU Banks

As one of the pillars of Japan’s sustainable finance policy, “ESG Regional Finance” emphasises the promotion of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) finance in the banking sector, and its purpose is often framed in the context of economic...

Announcement

17 February 2022

Employees Test Positive for COVID-19

Four employees at the headquarters of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES, Hayama, Kanagawa) tested positive for COVID-19 on 10, 15 and 16 February 2022, and they are under quarantine following instructions from the local health...

Press Release

1 February 2022

International Conference for Implementing Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will hold the International Conference for Implementing Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, as two-part, on-line event co-hosted by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan on 17 February (Part 1).

Announcement

10 February 2022

Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19

An employee at the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN, Kobe, Hyogo) of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) tested positive for COVID-19 on 3 February 2022, and the person is under quarantine following...

Announcement

27 January 2022

Employees Tests Positive for COVID-19

Three employees at the headquarters of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES, Hayama, Kanagawa) tested positive for COVID-19 on 21, 24 and 25 January 2022, and an employee at the Japanese Center for International Studies in Ecology...

Announcement

27 January 2022

Launch of Tool for Estimating Climate Impact from the Waste Sector in China

The IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) has launched version III of its IGES-GHG calculator entitled “Estimation Tool for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management in a Life Cycle...

Past Event

26 January 2022

Trends in Regional Decarbonisation and the Kanagawa Decarbonisation Vision 2050 ～Mobilizing concrete actions by local stakeholders～

The first session of " International trends and European practices of zero carbon cities " provides information on the domestic and international discussions related to zero carbon cities. The second session of "Kanagawa Decarbonisation Vision 2050:

Press Release

5 January 2022

IGES Content Rankings 2021

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) produced a wide range of reports, events and web content in 2021. As a special feature at the start of 2022, we have compiled the most popular IGES content of the past year by category (Top 10...