Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

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

26 February 2025

IGES to serve as Secretariat for initiative to develop Asia-Pacific Synergy Report

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will serve as Secretariat for a new initiative to develop the Asia-Pacific Synergy Report: Addressing the SDGs and the Triple Planetary Crisis (APSR). The United Nations Economic and Social...

Climate Security Challenges in the Asia-Pacific: Securing Energy, Trade and Transition

The surging impacts of climate change pose significant challenges to the Asia-Pacific region, particularly its highly interconnected and resource-dependent energy systems. The region is vulnerable to diverse climate security challenges that...

How Japan’s Experience will be able to Contribute to the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities

Cities play an important role in addressing climate change. In recognition of this, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has decided to prepare a "Special Report on Climate Change and Cities" (SR-Cities) in its Seventh Assessment...

Building Disaster-Resilient Communities - Lessons from Noto, Tohoku, and the World on Disaster Prevention and Resilience

The impact of climate change has led to an increase in natural disasters such as heavy rainfall worldwide, and the disaster risk faced by regional communities has become more severe. Last year, the Noto Peninsula experienced disasters caused by...

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 : November 2024

IGES Support activity for Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)

Based on the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework (ETF), countries regularly provide information on their progress with national climate actions. IGES supports full implementation of the ETF by all countries...

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Climate Change

Ecosystems

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Green Economy

Sustainable Consumption and Production

Sustainable Societies

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