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...

Launch of the OECD Environmental Performance Review of Japan

The Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ), in collaboration with the City of Yokohama, is hosting a public event on Friday, 21 March, to mark the release of the OECD Environmental Performance Review of Japan. The OECD Environmental Performance...

Redefining Food Security in the Asia-Pacific - Integrating food security with climate change and development

With the rise in undernourished people worldwide, ensuring food security and resilience has become an urgent, shared concern that requires long-term planning and commitment. Food security is commonly defined by four pillars—availability...

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...

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...

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Climate Change

Ecosystems

Governance

Green Economy

Sustainable Consumption and Production

Sustainable Societies

SDGs