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The IPBES Thematic Assessment of Invasive Alien Species and their Control was accepted and its summary for policymakers was approved at the tenth session of the IPBES Plenary, held in Bonn, Germany from 28 August - 2 September 2023. The Thematic Assessment of Invasive Alien Species and their Control is the result of four years of work by 86 experts...

サラワク木材業協会（STA）において、同協会メンバーの事業者、サラワク森林局（FDS）、サラワク林業公社（SFC）、 サラワク木材産業開発公社（STIDC）等に対し、2023年5月に改正されたクリーンウッド法の改正内容やその趣旨、特に日本への木材・木材製品輸出国側が留意すべき点の解説を行った。

The expansion of the online food services (collectively referred to as ‘OFS’) sector has been accelerating at high rates worldwide over the last few years. This sector is widely acknowledged, especially by urban consumers, for making life more convenient. During the strict lockdown following the breakout of the COVID-19 pandemic, the OFS sector saw...

• The drivers of resource consumption are population growth and economic development, leading to unsustainable consumption and production in the ASEAN region. • Increased consumption will lead to higher material extraction and processing. The current model of resource consumption has a linear flow (production→consumption→waste) and will lead to...

This report comprehensively reviewed the state and trends of the environment, the pressures on it and the drivers of those pressures, and the national and regional initiatives in place to address environmental concerns, using the DPSIR framework, and provided an overall outlook for the ASEAN environment. New elements, especially the SDGs, Paris...

兵庫県では2020年度から「ひょうご高校生 環境・未来リーダー育成プロジェクト」を開催しており、青森県でも昨年度から「青森県から日本・世界の環境・エネルギー問題を考える地元高校生向けワークショップ」が始まった。これらは2050年の脱炭素社会の実現に向け、その担い手となる若手人材の育成を目的とした5～6日間の研修プログラムであり、その企画・運営にIGES関西研究センターが携わっている。これまでに兵庫県では延べ25校から104名が、青森県では6校から32名が参加した。昨今、気候変動問題をはじめとした地球環境問題に関する教育の充実の必要性が叫ばれてきており、そのような市民向けプログラムが各地で開催されるようになってきているが、高校生を対象とし...

• Since its inception, ASEAN has had a vision of an integrated, sustainable, harmonious, peaceful, and productive region, with its “One Vision, One Identity, One Community”. • The three complementary communities, APSC, AEC, and ASCC, all include aspects of the future environmental conditions and quality of life desired for all ASEAN people, aligned...

• In ASEAN’s organizational structure, environmental cooperation is under the ASCC. • Environmental cooperation within ASEAN is overseen by AMME, managed by ASOEN, and implemented through seven Working Groups under the ASOEN, supported by the ASEAN Secretariat. • ASEAN conducts international cooperation on the environment at all levels, from the...

• The SDGs encourage countries to develop synergies between the environment and the social and economic dimensions of sustainable development. This could help gain more support for environmental measures by the public as well as a broader range of policymakers. • AMS have extensively engaged with the SDG process, developing data and indicators and...

The ASEAN State of the Environment Report (SOER) is a regular flagship publication of the ASEAN Senior Officials on Environment (ASOEN) which is periodically published every 3-5 years. The SOERs present a comprehensive review of the state and trends of the environment, the pressures on it and the drivers of those pressures, and the national and...