オルティス モヤ フェルナンド

This paper examines the governance of agrivoltaics (AV) in the context of Japan’s rapid rural depopulation and farmland abandonment. While AV is traditionally framed as a solution to land-use competition, this study argues that in shrinking regions, the primary challenge is not land scarcity but a shortage of human capacity to manage...

本業務は、アジア太平洋地域の国々の取組強化に資するとともに、同地域の動向や先駆的な取組を国際社会へ発信し、国連における2030年以降の持続可能な開発に関する国際枠組の議論へのインプットを目指すため、アジア太平洋地域特有の観点からシナジー推進の優良事例や展開方策を「アジア太平洋シナジーレポート」としてとりまとめることを目的としたものである。昨年度（令和6年度）業務において策定された企画書に基づき、ESCAP、UNEP、ADB等の関係機関と調整しつつ、生物多様性や都市等の個別テーマ（チャプター）の検討、地域特有の課題抽出、及びシナジーアプローチ実施に向けた提言の策定に向け、事務局として各種とりまとめ作業を進めた。

In a world that expects cities to fuel economic growth and attract millions of people every year, there's something unnerving about the phrase "shrinking cities." But thousands of cities are getting smaller, leaving vacant homes, abandoned factories, and oversized infrastructure. Shrinking cities pose a new problem for urban planners: how to manage...

Achieving the 2030 Agenda requires comprehensive follow-up and review across all levels of government. Although local governments play a critical role in implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs), their current follow-up and review architecture — conceived from a global perspective and tailored to national reporting — ignores local...

This paper examines the interplay between pro-growth and smart shrinkage planning approaches to persistent population decline in three small-sized Japanese municipalities: Yubari, Hokkaido; Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture; and Manazuru, Kanagawa Prefecture. To articulate the extent to which shrinking cities deviate from historically normative pro-growth...

Many deindustrialised cities pivoted to services and tech, but Kitakyushu, Japan, took another path. Spurred by women-led “blue skies” activism, it leveraged its manufacturing heritage and pollution-control know-how to build a green industrial economy. The case shows how cities can turn crisis into advantage by building on local strengths and...

This report is the sixth edition of the State of the Voluntary Local Reviews series, which has been produced annually by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) since 2020. It aims to offer an empirical overview of the Voluntary Local Review (VLR) movement to examine evolving local-level practices in SDG localisation...

Progress toward the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been insufficient, partly due to weak policy follow-up and review (FUR) at all government levels. While local governments are key to implementing the SDGs, the country-centric design of the 2030 Agenda hinders effective local-level FUR. To address this shortcoming, local governments...

This article explores how genuine stakeholder engagement can drive sustainable development by fostering trust, empowering communities, and strengthening governance. Drawing on experiences from Santa Rosa City in the Philippines and Shimokawa Town in Japan—two places facing vastly different challenges—it illustrates how meaningful participation can...

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the 2030 Agenda) and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were intended to motivate governments to transform conventional development patterns (United Nations, 2015). However, the lack of progress on the SDG suggests the national institutions and processes supporting this transformation may not be...