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Landslides are critical natural disasters characterized by a downward movement of land masses. As one of the deadliest types of disasters worldwide, they have a high death toll every year and cause a large amount of economic damage. The transition between urban and rural areas is characterized by highways, which, in rugged Himalayan terrain, have...

Climate change has complex impacts on natural resources in general and agriculture in particular. Hence, policies that address these impacts also need to be as broad-based and still be able to target location-specific conditions of these issues. It is a challenge but one can already find a range of policies and actions off-the-shelf that can be...

A presentation of a paper written by Johnson, Mader, Dasgupta and Kumar in 2020, as part of an online event on citizen science. The original paper by Johnson et al. is available at https://www.iges.or.jp/en/pub/citizen-science-and-invasive-species/en.

This study intends to identify conditions that determine the characteristics of donors who allocate a larger share of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to climate change mitigation (mitigation ODA) following the adoption of the Paris Agreement. The study uses fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) which allows us to examine...

日本政府に脱化石燃料への行動を迫るG7加盟国：G7気候・エネルギー・環境大臣会合からG7サミットを展望する

[Please refer to Page 74 in GAR2022 where this work is cited. The full paper will be online soon at the same website as GAR2022] The rapidly changing socio-economic landscape of the Southeast Asian countries is an important driver for systemic risks such as climate change and hydro-geological disasters. Global processes such as the SFDRR, the Paris...

This guideline was prepared by the IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (CCET) under the project titled “Sustainable Solutions of Compost from Organic Waste in Iraq” in consultation with the policy makers and experts in Karbala City. The guideline aims to provide some insights on how to design and implement an...

本ペーパーでは、COVID-19からの持続可能でレジリエントな回復と、グローバルな目標に沿ったより長期的な経済のリデザインに貢献するために、各国政府がすでに実施している戦略の優良事例を紹介し、さらなる行動への提言を行う。本ペーパーの読者として想定するのは、国レベル、地方レベルの実務者や政策立案者である。本ペーパーは、COVID-19からの回復とその後の社会形成に向けて、気候政策と環境政策を統合するための各国の取り組みや計画を共有するためのハブとして環境省が2020年9月に立ち上げた「リデザイン2020プラットフォーム」内の情報と、これらのトピックに関する最新の外部研究を活用し、持続可能な復興とリデザインを可能にする政策の枠組み作りと優先順位付けに環境省が役立てようとしている3つの移行...

時評「EUタクソノミー」が意味するもの

Development of renewable energy (RE) systems provides a practical solution to achieve a transition towards a low-carbon society. By replacing fossil fuel-based technologies and enabling access to clean energy through decentralised energy systems, RE can generate multiple synergies with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly...