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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.

Announcement

18 March 2022

Launch of International Initiative for Development of Article 6 Methodology Tools (II-AMT)

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) partnered with Perspectives Climate Research to launch the International Initiative for Development of Article 6 Methodology tools (II-AMT).

Announcement

15 March 2022

Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19

An employee at the headquarters of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES, Hayama, Kanagawa) tested positive for COVID-19 on 1 March 2022, and they are under quarantine following instructions from the local health authority. We are...

Past Event

17 February 2022

The 1st National Workshop in the Philippines for Exploring the Potential of the Regional Circular and Ecological Sphere (Regional-CES)

In order to raise awareness about the importance of the Regional Circular and Ecological Sphere (Regional-CES) approach in addressing current and future climate issues, the Kansai Research Centre (KRC) of the Institute for Global Environmental Strate

Past Event

14 March 2022

Keynote Presentation of the 3RINCs 2022

Regional Conference on the OECD Global Plastics Outlook

There is an incomprehensible amount of plastic in our society, driven by population growth and higher incomes. Estimates put the global plastics production to have doubled between 2000 and 2019, coming up to 460 million tonnes (Mt) in 2019. While...