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The world’s advanced economies have committed to phasing out coal over the next seven years. But not Japan, which stands alone insisting it can make coal less damaging to the planet. Nowhere is that more evident than at the nation’s largest coal-fired power plant in Hekinan, a small city in central Japan where 400,000 tons of jet-black piles are...

本年５月のG7広島サミットにいたるプロセスでは、気候変動がこれまでにない幅広い形で取り上げられました。根底には、脱炭素の潮流とクリーン技術への投資競争の「加速のスパイラル」があり、そして世界の主要経済（中国、アメリカ、EU）の間では産業政策による競争が熾烈化しています。 そうした中、過度に集中した供給網の分散化には何が必要なのか。また、日本はGX推進によりクリーン技術での競争力を取り戻すことができるのか。そうした問題を考えてみました。

In view of the growing recognition of the role of non-state actors as agents of implementation of addressing climate change under the Paris Agreement, this study sheds light on the measures taken by urban cities in developing countries. Beyond the process of formulating climate action plans reviewed in previous studies, this study aims to identify...

We are experiencing a rapid increase in multi-dimensional risks. Risks that are highly interconnected across scales, sectors and regions. Unfortunately, the current risk financing regime is highly fragmented and lacks the perspective informed of multi-dimension risk reduction. Often, financing is targeting the ‘affected’ rather than ‘effector’...

A waste bank is a unique community-based waste management system that promotes source separation of waste and recycling. This study conducted a total population sampling targeting all identified waste bank units in Medan City (N = 100) between September 2017 and February 2018. Descriptive statistics were applied to address 16 research questions and...

Avoiding disasters is an interesting and helpful idea to understand where we have made progress in risk reduction and where we can make further inroads. This presentation looks at the idea of avoiding disasters deeply and discusses the needed approaches to quantify and bring evidence to the front. It proposes that while evidence on avoiding...

Food waste has become a pressing global issue in recent years. In China, the issue of food waste has become increasingly severe. As a provincial capital city, Harbin is also a major agricultural city in China with distinct urban and rural features. This paper uses Harbin as a case study to evaluate different strategies for preventing and reducing...

This paper presents three initiatives by Japanese local governments that bring synergies to climate change, biodiversity, and the SDGs. These examples were shared with the world by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan at the High-Level Political Forum in 2023.

本ペーパーでは、日本の自治体による気候変動・生物多様性・ＳＤＧｓに相乗効果（シナジー）をもたらす取り組みを3つ紹介しています。これらの事例は2023年のハイレベル政治フォーラム（HLPF2023）にて、環境省によって世界に共有されました。

中国の最北端に立地する内モンゴル自治区（以下、内モンゴル）は、モンゴル共和国とロシアとの４２００㎞の国境を持つ少数民族自治区である。行政区域土地面積は118万 ㎢、国全体の12.3％を占めるが、常駐人口は国全体の1.7％に相当する2403万人に止まり、ここ数年は人口減少が目立つ。 　一方、内モンゴルのGDPは急速な成長を見せ、第十三次五カ年計画期間（２０１６年～２０２０年）における平均成長率は4.3％に達し、一人平均GDPは１万ドルを超えている。 　中国政府は、内モンゴルの立地的な好条件と豊富な資源保有状況を勘案し、当該地域を国家エネルギーと戦略資源基地として指定した。