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The Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 by the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP 21) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) marked a milestone in that many developing countries submitted their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) could serve as one foundation...

This presentation gives a snapshot on the differences between MRV systems and climate actions to support NDCs in the Paris Agreeement era and the Kyoto Protocol era.

Funded by the Government of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) has been conducting empirical studies on carbon pricing in Northeast Asia. The related policy progress is generally laggard in this region compared with that in Europe. One of the main barriers may be attributed to the high resistance from...

Strategies for Building Resilience against Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Sub-Saharan Africa

The training programme was organised to “Support Renewable Energy Deployment through Developing Project Proposals to Access Green Climate Fund (GCF)” by IGES-KRC with support from Ministry of Environment Japan and IRENA. The training programme was attended by representatives from Maldives, Palau, Fiji, Samoa and Mozambique. It was observed that the...

An increasing number of national and local governments are developing their strategies on sustainable development, due partially to the recent international agreements aiming for a medium and long-term transition toward sustainable societies. These strategies sometimes highlight local/community-scale initiatives as their key drivers to achieve...

At 13th APRSCP meeting, S-16 research group organized a round table session titled "SCP Challenges and Opportunities from Four Perspectives – Resources, Lifecycle, Lifestyle, Sufficiency". There, Hotta presented how SCP policy design will be changed systematically in the era of SDGs and Paris Agreement referring to Sufficiency Approach.

On 5-8 September 2017, the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Summit on the Environment (the Summit) was convened in Bangkok, Thailand. This briefing note draws upon the observations of researchers from the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) to underline key points involving the SDGs, air pollution, and resource efficiency that stood out...

持続可能な生産と消費（SCP）は、「消費と生産システムが環境に及ぼすネガティブな影響を最小化しつつ、すべての人にとっての生活の質の向上を目指す包括的なアプローチ」と定義され、非常に包括的で広範な政策概念である。SCPに関連して、２０１５年に「持続可能な開発目標（SDGｓ）」とパリ合意と言う２つの国際合意がなされたことは注目すべきである。いずれの場合も、無限の資源、環境容量を前提としない社会経済へと舵取りすることについて国際合意したことにその画期性がある。この２つの政策的文脈の中で、生産と消費のあり方を変えることで社会経済の仕組みをより持続可能にすること（SCP）が注目されている。SCPを実現するための政策を検討する上では、製品とサービスのライフサイクル、ライフスタイルの変化...

Poly-tunnels also known as greenhouses are used mostly by farmers to grow crops inside the poly-tunnels by maintaining heat especially in winter. The structure of poly-tunnels helps to warm plants, soil and other things inside faster than heat can escape from the poly-tunnels. Due to extreme cold weather, most of the places in around Tsukuba, the...