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The economic disruptions from the Ukraine war have intensified short term concerns about energy and food security, as well as access to critical minerals. Climate security is also increasingly urgent. This paper urges governments to speed up, not slow down, transitions away from fossil fuels and toward more sustainable development patterns. The war...

COP27期間中に発表された取り組みや民間資金への期待について紹介。

Overview of the contributions made by the Satoyama Development Mechanism, a seed funding programme under the International Partnership for Satoyama Initiative, in the past and way forward to the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework.

Manufacturing and mining sectors are serious pollution sources and risk factors that threaten air quality and human health. We analyzed pollutants at two study sites (Talcher and Brajrajnagar) in Odisha, an area exposed to industrial emissions, in the pre-COVID-19 year (2019) and consecutive pandemic years, including lockdowns (2020 and 2021). We...

The Hindu Kush Himalayan region is one of the highly significant mountainous regions that play a crucial role beyond its boundaries in terms of people's well-being by providing a range of ecosystem services. The HKH region is facing severe climate change impacts and adaptation in the region needs to take an approach that considers the multi-hazard...

Amidst ongoing conversations surrounding the attainment of net-zero emissions, it is crucial to underscore the importance of aligning substantive climate action with overarching sustainability objectives. The Voluntary Local Reviews (VLR) movement is gaining momentum, presenting an opportunity to extend its influence in fostering sustainable...

環境新聞にて連載中の「シャオリュウの中国環境ウオッチ」では、地球環境戦略研究機関（IGES）北京事務所長の小柳秀明が、中国の環境の現状と対策を毎月現場から報告しています。(コロナ禍により2020年1月より日本滞在)

The response of land surface phenology (LSP) to the urban heat island effect (UHI) is a useful biological indicator for understanding how vegetated ecosystems will be affected by future climate warming. However, vegetation cover in rural areas is often dominated by cultivated land, whose phenological timing is considerably influenced by...

An introduction for protected and conserved area practitioners

国と国とが対立の度を深める今という時代に、21世紀の人類の共通目標となりつつあるカーボンニュートラル（炭素中立）化を目指した研究・教育をする意味を考えた論考です。まず、炭素中立への移行は、黒船という外からの力により開国という重い扉を開いた明治維新以降の日本社会の変化と歩みに類する脱炭素革命と呼ぶべき挑戦であることを指摘します。その上で、22世紀までの未来社会を共創していくためには、東西という限られた視野を超えて、アジアの周辺国の人々との理解を深め合い、助け合っていくことが不可欠であると主張しています。今後さらに深刻化する気候変動と社会変動に対処していくには、戦争状態を超えた長期的な平和に対するビジョンと戦略を持ち、（反撃・報復行為はもとより）隣国を敵対視するのではない自由な精神で未来を拓き...