Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

ISAP2025 The 17th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific “Our World in Flux: How to Shape a Sustainable Future through Just Transition”

Why the Second Trump Administration Could Struggle to Undermine Domestic Climate Policies: Obstacles to Backsliding

UNFCCC COP29

IGES Plastic Focus: Tackling Pollution and Advancing Circular Solutions

IGES and Climate Security

1.5C Lifestyles

ISAP2025 The 17th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific “Our World in Flux: How to Shape a Sustainable Future through Just Transition”

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is set to host the 17th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2025). This year, the Plenary Sessions will be held on Tuesday, 29 July 2025 at Pacifico Yokohama as a...

Project Updated : March 2025

Emission Quantification Tool (EQT): A Pathway to Climate-Friendly Waste Solutions

The Emission Quantification Tool (EQT) was developed by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) as a science-based tool designed to empower policymakers and practitioners to estimate emissions, plan climate-friendly systems, and...

Promoting Evidence-based Policymaking to Tackle Marine Plastic Pollution in Asia-Pacific

Background Generating and accessing accurate plastic data is essential for planning, implementing, and monitoring how plastics move through the economy and leak into the environment. However, significant gaps in data availability and accessibility...

Workshop on 1.5°C Lifestyles in Kitakyushu 2025 - Want to try a practical cooking class that helps mitigate global warming?

The Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, aims to limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. To achieve this, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced to net zero by around 2050...

Project Updated : March 2025

IGES Plastic Focus: Tackling Pollution and Advancing Circular Solutions

Plastic Pollution as a Global Agenda Nearly a decade has passed since plastic pollution and its countermeasures began to be recognised as a major global agenda. A key turning point in this recognition was the 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur...

Project Updated : March 2025

Environment Research and Technology Development Fund 1CN-2206 (FY2022-2024) - Research on the national long-term roadmap to synergise mitigation and adaptation towards a net zero and resilient ASEAN

Towards the establishment of a net-zero and resilient ASEAN Community as indicated by the ASEAN Climate Vision 2050, IGES is conducting a study on the formulation of a long-term roadmap to promote integrated transition of mitigation and adaptation in...

Three Focal Areas

Climate Change

Biodiversity

Circular Economy

Five Lenses

Global Sustainability

National Policy

Cities & Rural Areas

Finance & Business

Lifestyles & Citizen Participation

SDGs