堀田 康彦

The presentation was made at the Special Session on "Outcome of 11 th Regional 3R and Circular Economy Forum in Asia and the Pacific, Siem Reap, Kingdom of Cambodia", 3RINCs 2023. The presentation discusses that increasingly UNEA plays an inportant role in global environmental governance. Cosidering the role of Regional 3R and CE Forum in Asia and...

This presentation was a quick overview of monitoring and scientific research on marine plastics and pollution. The whole information is based on “G20 Report on Actions Against Marine Plastic Litter” 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.
 

The major findings from the quick review are as follows: 1) It seems that the current policy attentions is still more...

There is limited knowledge on the potential impacts of electric vehicle (EV) deployment in developing countries to date. India is a rapidly industrializing country with a national policy to promote EVs, but does not have the waste management infrastructure to process battery waste. Through a model analysis for India, we projected that the sale of...

個人の行動変容と意識の向上により脱炭素（ネットゼロ）社会の実現を図ることに限界があり、循環経済を構築し、より循環型なくらしを浸透させるには、人びとの働き方やライフスタイルのルールを変える社会変革が必要であると説明しました。また、COVID-19の影響がこの傾向を増幅させていると示唆しました。具体的には、脱炭素（ネットゼロ）や海洋プラごみ流失ゼロといった長期目標を実現した社会の姿を皆で描き、そして、その実現に向けて市民の行動変容や政策介入に係る社会実験を行い、効果を検証する証拠を積み重ねていくことが肝要であると指摘しました。

The 2nd Technical Working Group meeting to develop National Plastic Action Plan in Myanmar was organized on January 11, 2023 as an online event. During the TWG meeting, Hotta presented the current status of internatonal cooperation on plastic pollution in ASEAN countries as well as its implications to interanational negotiation to develop...

For a pollution free planet, UNEP has been implementing plastic pollution-related projects in the Mekong basin countries since 2019. Past projects aimed to identify a region-based model for monitoring and assessment of plastic leakage and pollution reduction targeting land-based plastic leakage entering waterways such as rivers and canals or...

Dr Yasuhiko Hotta, Vice President of APRSCP and Programme Director of Sustainable Consumption and Production Area at IGES, identified six challenges for adopting EPR: interpretation of EPR, the difficulty of identifying producers, the infeasibility of the take-back scheme, competition with the informal waste management sector, waste collection and...

At the session 2 of 16th APRSCP, along with GIZ, SWITCh-Asia, and UNEP, IGES presented a key concept for APRSCP Strategy,

IGES emphasized the changing emphasis of SCP over the last 30 years. Also, considering many ongoing international initiatives on SCP and circular economy, it is necessary to consider collaboration and synergies among many on...

IGES organized a training course on muncipal solid waste management and circular economy on November 14-16, 2022 for ADB staff.

During the training, Hotta provided a lecture as follows;

Hotta shared that with economy and social development, policy is shifting towards
CE. He buttressed his case with Japan as a case study. He stressed that in...

ERIA and IGES organized the 3rd Meeting of  ERIA’s Experts Working Group on Marine Plastic Debris on November 8-9, 2022 in Jakarta at ERIA HQ.

During the meeting, OECD's new workstream to develop Asia-Pacific version of Plastic Outlook. The experts, IGES and ERIA agreed that it will be a good opportunity to have a regiional assessment on plastic...