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Celebrating World Ocean Day 2025 and Thailand’s Heart Made Islands Project: “30+ Islands Clean-Up – So Cool Mission
IGES is proud to join more than 30 island communities, government agencies, development partners, academic institutions, private sector actors, and civil society organisations in co-organising Thailand’s largest island-wide clean-up and the 3rd...
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Ending Plastic Pollution: Spotlight on East and Southeast Asia
Background Plastic pollution is a global environmental issue. East and Southeast Asia are of strategic importance in the fight against plastic pollution, the rivers and coastlines of which are some of the most affected by plastic pollution. The...
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Exploring Nature Positive Futures
Nature Positive is a global societal goal defined as ‘halt and reverse nature loss by 2030 on a 2020 baseline, and achieve full recovery by 2050’, in line with the mission of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Nature Positive...
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Dr. Johan Rockström Visits IGES and Delivers Special Lecture
On 9 October, Dr. Johan Rockström, the globally renowned scientist on planetary sustainability and leading researcher on planetary boundaries (Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Professor in Earth System Science at the...
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【ISAP2024】 The 16th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific “Taking an Integrated Approach to Overcome the Triple Planetary Crisis”
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will host the 16th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2024). This year, the Plenary Sessions will be held on Tuesday, 23 July 2024 at Pacifico Yokohama as a hybrid...
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IGES and the Vientiane Capital Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office Exchange an MOU to Enhance Urban Greening, Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Environmental Education in Vientiane
In May 2024, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the Vientiane Capital Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office (VC PAFO) of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR)...
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G20 (2024) Special webpage
Led by the Brazilian Presidency, the G20 Summit in 2024 is due to be held on 18-19 November in Rio de Janeiro. The world is now facing simultaneous and interlinked crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. Moreover, prolonged...
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CBD COP16 Special Webpage
The Convention on Biological Diversity The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is a multilateral environmental agreement on: (1) the conservation of biodiversity; (2) the sustainable use of the components of biodiversity; (3) the fair and...
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Updated: August 2024
PoDIWM-2: Strengthening Capacity Development for Local Governments in ASEAN to Tackle Microplastics and Water Pollution through Decentralised Wastewater Management Approach
PoDIWM is shorthand for a 2-year ASEAN Cooperation Project titled “Policy Dialogue and Network Building of Multi-stakeholders on Integrated Decentralized Domestic Wastewater Management in ASEAN Countries,” (PoDIWM) funded by the Japan-ASEAN Integrati