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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)

UNEP Forum 2022発表資料「UNEA5.2、UNEP@50、Stockholm+50を振り返る：地球環境課題に関する国際プロセスのハイライト2022」

Based on the S-16-3 Project, Hotta presented SCP Policy Landscape in the post COVID-19 Era. In conclusion, he emphasized the following policy research needs for socio-economic transition to SCP. (1) Envisioning concrete images of a society that has successfully met its mid-term and long-term goals, (2) Policy support for learning from model cases...

Climate change has caused vulnerability not only to the forest ecosystem but also to forest-dependent communities. Therefore, its management is essential to increase forest ecosystem services and reduce vulnerability to climate change using an integrated approach. Although many scientific studies examined climate change impact on forest ecosystems...

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...

海洋プラスチック問題において、東南アジア諸国もその発生源として指摘されており、国家レベルの対応が推進中である。 基本的には、海洋プラスチック問題は陸上の廃棄物管理問題であると認識され、その改善のために、日本、 EU、国際機関、 NGOなどが様々な支援を展開中である。ASEANで展開されている国際協力を概観し、今後の国際協力の在り方について論じた。

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.

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...

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