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Past Event

6 July 2018

"Climate Change, Globalisation and the Vulnerability of Cities" Co-hosted by IGES and UNU

Public Seminar featuring Professor William Rees, recipient of the 2012 Boulding Prize in Ecological Economics, Blue Planet Prize laureate, and co-developer of “ecological footprint” analysis The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)...

Past Event

30 January 2019

Training Workshop for Creating a Low-Carbon Society “Climate Change Strategies for Local Governments: Low-Carbon City Policy Development and Implementation” (FY 2018)

From 30 January to 1 February 2019, the training workshop “Climate Change Strategies for Local Governments: Low-Carbon City Planning Development and Implementation” was organised in the cities of Kitakyushu and Fukuoka in Japan as part of the...

Past Event

22 November 2018

Sustainable Society Built by Team Kitakyushu- Direction of Future International Environmental Cooperation -

Kitakyushu, with its vast experience in overcoming historic levels of pollution, is carrying out a diverse set of actions that take advantage of environmental management know-how, technologies, and partnerships between industries, government...

Press Release

25 July 2019

“Japanese Companies Increasingly Embrace Action on the SDGs, Including a Focus on Gender Equality” Official launch of a new report “Mainstreaming the SDGs in Business: Actions by Companies and Organisations in Japan”

“Japanese Companies Increasingly Embrace Action on the SDGs, Including a Focus on Gender Equality”
Official launch of a new report “Mainstreaming the SDGs in Business: Actions by Companies and Organisations in Japan”

Past Event

Symposium on New Directions and Future Initiatives for Air Pollution Control in Asia

22 May 2019

Commemorating the Japanese Edition of the “Science-Based Solutions Report: Air Pollution in the Asia-Pacific Region” “Symposium on New Directions and Future Initiatives for Air Pollution Control in Asia" -Aiming to simultaneously solve problems with air

Air pollution, which has become a serious social problem in the Asia-Pacific region, is closely related to climate change, in terms of both impact and necessary countermeasures. It is also an important issue for achieving the SDGs. Thus, at the...

Past Event

15 July 2019

Activity Report

Towards the Achievement of Decarbonisation in the Region and Localisation of the SDGs: Realisation of Circulating and Ecological Economy in an Inclusive Form

Climate change is one of the most important and pressing issues in the SDGs and strongly linked with other Goals. Our current actions against climate change will have a profound and lasting impact on the future of humanity and the environment.

Past Event

17 July 2019

Activity Report

Integrated and Inclusive Approaches to the SDGs in Asia and Globally: Coming Together Around Shared Solutions

This event was divided into two sections on what is needed to take an integrated and inclusive approach to the SDGs. The first section discussed a whole-of-Japan approach to the SDG. The second session offered a more focused discussion.

Past Event

12 July 2019

Activity Report

From Science to Implementation: Strengthening the Science-Policy Interface (SPI) to Integrate Climate Change, Resilience, and the Sustainable Development Goals

A key message from IPCC 1.5 C special report is that leveraging synergies and avoiding trade-offs between climate-action and development priorities can help limit global warming to safe levels. There nonetheless remain questions on how policymakers c

Past Event

30 July 2019

International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific

ISAP 2019 – “Inclusive Transformation: Multi-stakeholder Collaboration Driving the World towards a Circulating and Ecological Economy”

Background Time is ticking. It’s been over three years since the international community agreed to adopt and collectively act to implement the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development including the Sustainable Development...

Past Event

28 March 2019

6th Asia-Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development Side Event

Promoting Enabling Environment for Inclusiveness by Localizing SDGs

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organised an official side event on 28 March 2019 titled “Promoting Enabling Environment for Inclusiveness by Localizing SDGs,” together with the Government of Japan (Ministry of the...