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The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has launched an interactive online tool to assess how the observed and projected changes in river basins relate to various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their associated targets, from both a spatial and temporal perspective. The Interactive SDG Tool for River Basins is the outcome...

Agricultural certification schemes are increasingly requiring concession holders to prevent deforestation when they develop plantations but do not sufficiently address forest restoration, which is necessary to prevent further biodiversity loss. This policy brief recommends, by focusing on palm oil, that agricultural certification schemes strengthen...

Although many researchers highlight the benefits of Urban Green Spaces (UGS) to city dwellers, understanding of residents’ emotional association with UGS remains an incomplete and exciting area of place research. In this study, we conducted an empirical assessment of residents’ Place Attachment (PA) towards UGS in the Greater Tokyo region. For this...

This presentations introduces a Mutual Learning Program for Enhanced Transparency , which Institute for Global Environmental Strategies is implementing with support from the Ministry of the Environment, Japan . By making a pair of countries, this program aims to support countries and organizations in learning and practising reporting of climate...

Agricultural commodities imported by Japan have potential to drive (and reduce) deforestation in overseas countries. We evaluated international trades of so-called “forest-risk agricultural commodities" as below. - Cattle meat - Palm oil - Soybean - Tropical timber and timber products - Natural rubber - Coffee

Peatlands in Indonesia are subject to subsidence in recent years, resulting in significant soil organic carbon loss. Their degradation is responsible for several environmental issues; however, understanding the causes of peatland subsidence is of prime concern for implementing mitigation measures. Here, we employed time-series Small BAseline Subset...

Presentation at IAMC annal meeting in December 2021. The project is a part of IIASA-MOEJ collaborative project B, Bhutan component. The unexpected Covid-19 pandemic, however, hit global society at the end of 2019, and Bhutan is no exception. Covid-19 has significantly highlighted the social systematic vulnerabilities in a global context. In such a...

Poster presentation at the IAMC academic conference held online in December 2021. The authors presented the current development of Local Climate Change Action Plan for Da Nang city based on carbon neutral strategy by 2050.

英国・グラスゴーで開催された国連気候変動枠組条約第26回締約国会議(COP26)は、1日延長の上無事に合意文書を採択し、閉会した。英国は議長国として、気候変動の影響に対して脆弱な国々の適応とレジリエンス強化を優先課題の一つとして位置づけ、適応に関連する様々なイニシアティブを立ち上げてきたが、本会合においても適応に関わる議題が多く議論された。成果文書である「グラスゴー気候合意（Glasgow Climate Pact）」においては、途上国が気候変動に対する適応能力を高め、レジリエンスの強化と脆弱性の低減を実現するために、資金、能力強化、技術移転を含む行動と支援の規模を拡大することの緊急性が強調された。本稿では、COP26およびパリ協定第3回締約国会合(CMA3...

Few challenges pose a greater threat to a healthy planet and people than air pollution and climate change. Over the past three decades, research has demonstrated that integrated solutions to air pollution and climate change can yield co-benefits that support cost-effective, coherent policies. However, research on co-benefits has yet to generate...