IGES cooperates with central and local governments, businesses, international organisations and other development partners to guide the transition to a resource efficient, circular and low carbon economy.
Changing consumption and production patterns remains crucial for achieving a climate-resilient future. We promote upstream and downstream solutions aimed at supporting behaviour change and advancing resource efficiency including through the design of integrated waste management strategies.
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Adopting Integrated Solid Waste Management towards Zero Waste Cities
Summary The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently convened a webinar titled "Adopting Integrated Solid Waste Management towards Zero Waste Cities" on March 27, 2024, in...
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OECD-G20 Expert and Policy Dialogue
Expert and Policy Dialogue on the Assessment of Policy Responses to Plastic Pollution
Bangkok, 4 March 2024: In efforts towards achieving the Osaka Blue Ocean Vision to reduce additional marine plastic pollution to zero by 2050, The Ministry of Environment of Japan (MOEJ), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
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Enhancing circular actions through Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency Principles (CEREP) and Global Circularity Protocol (GCP)
Enhancing Circular Economy(CE) and Resource Efficiency (RE) through value chains is increasingly important to address the triple global crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Businesses can play a significant role for meeting...
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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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Call for Proposals Breaking the Plastic Habit in Asia: Piloting the Application of Behavioural Insights for Plastic Reduction
IGES is launching Phase II of the Breaking the Plastic Habit in Asia project to test the effectiveness of behaviour-centred interventions to reduce the use and waste of single-use plastics in cities and communities. The project is conducted in close...
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IGES and Its Partners Launch Global Project to Cease Open Waste Burning for Mitigation of Air Pollution, Climate Change and Health Risks
IGES, in partnership with Engineering X , the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) , Practical Action and UN Habitat , announces the launch of a ground-breaking project “Creating the enabling conditions for eliminating open burning of waste...
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Updated: August 2024
Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency
In recent years, circular economy (CE) and resource efficiency (RE) have become central to the G7 / G20 process and the sustainable development agenda, as well as the response to climate change. A circular economy aims to realise resource circulation...
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Updated: July 2024
ASEAN SDGs Frontrunner Cities Programme (SDGs-FC)
The ASEAN SDGs Frontrunner Cities Programme (SDGs-FC) is an initiative under the ASEAN Working Group on Environmentally Sustainable Cities (AWGESC) funded by the Japan-ASEAN Integration Fund (JAIF). It aims to support ASEAN cities to achieve...
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Updated: June 2024
1.5°C Lifestyles
IPCC’s special report on global warming, launched in 2018, emphasized that in order to limit global warming to 1.5C or below, we should achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2050. To achieve this ambitious target, CO2 emissions reductions across both pro