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This presentation emphasises the importance and ways of harnessing the SDG synergies in the post-pandemic recovery to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs related to water, energy, sustainable infrastructure, industrial development, and sustainable cities. Understanding the interlinkages between the SDGs is crucial for taking an integrated...

Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into climate actions is essential for a healthy planet and people. Yet, national climate policies and international climate support programs often fail to explicitly recognize the interconnections between climate concerns and other priorities covered under the SDGs. This failure can leave key...

The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report highlighted the critical connections between climate actions and sustainable development, including both synergies and trade-offs. Managing the trade-offs through policy design is strongly recommended and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are proposed as a basis for evaluating climate actions in the context...

This presentation was provided to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)’s Training for Long-term Low-Carbon Strategies", 17 February 2023, JICA Yokohama. In this training session, the methodology and tool for analysing the interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were introduced. A couple of applications of the...

This lecture was provided to the "Sustainable Development Goals and Corporate Social Responsibility" Course, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT), on 16 February 2023, online. The methodology and tool for analysing the interlinkages between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) were introduced. A couple of applications of the methodology...

These proceedings pertain to the JSPS-ICSSR seminar entitled ‘Understanding and Addressing Systemic Risks Behind the Socio-economic Impacts of Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) in Japan and India: Developing a Roadmap for a Resilient and Sustainable Future’. Led by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the Indian Institute...

This report presents findings from a project jointly implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). The project reviewed 50 Voluntary National Reviews (VNRs) on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from 36 Asia and the Pacific countries from 2016 to 2021. In this...

This lecture was given to the training programme on “Teaching Sustainability and Localising the Sustainable Development Goals in the Hindu Kush Himalaya”, 13 December 2022, online. The training programme was organized by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Himalayan University Consortium (HUC), and Potsdam...

In 2022, UNEP conducted a regional review of the Voluntary National Reviews (VNR) in Asia-Pacific covering 36 countries and 50 VNRs from an environmental perspective. For indicators, we developed a framework to review the environment-related indicators and data that were used in the VNRs. We found that the overall coverage of the environment...