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As climate change will lead to more severe and frequent weather-related hazards, the need to deal with compound and cascading disasters has become an emerging issue. The e-learning course “Building resilience to compound and cascading disaster risks” under AP-PLAT capacity development programs objects for the local/national government officers to...

Yasuhiko Hotta acted as a lectuerer and commentator for JICA training course on "Development of Recycling Policy" organied in January 13, 2022. The course was organized as an on-line training course and participated by the participants from Kosovo, Palestine, Thailand, Samoa, Cuba, Egypt, Georgia, Micronesia, Vanuatu, and Tunisia.

Because of its threat to the quality of freshwater resources and human health, arsenic (As) pollution is important to scientific communities and policymakers around the world. The Mekong Delta, Vietnam, is one hotspot of As pollution. Its risk assessment of different environmental components has been well documented; however, very few studies focus...

Natural processes and anthropogenic activities are the major factors that can deteriorate groundwater quality. This study provides an insight into groundwater quality and its drinking suitability in part of Rajasthan. The physicochemical analysis of parameters (pH, EC,TDS, Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, K+, F−, HCO3−, Cl−, NO3−, and SO42−) was conducted in the...

Hosted by the PCCB, and with the support of the Capacity-building subdivision of the UNFCCC, the 3rd Capacity-building Hub took place over the course of six thematic days from 3 to 10 November 2021 at COP 26 in Glasgow. The outcomes of discussions in the 3rd Capacity-building Hub show considerable synergies and shared priorities across different...

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)

River sediment can be used to measure the pollution level in natural water, as it serves as one of the vital environmental indicators. This study aims to assess heavy metal pollution namely Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Manganese (Mn), Zinc (Zn), Nickel (Ni), Lead (Pb), and Cadmium (Cd) in Surma River. Further, it compares potential ecological risk index...

ビジョン創発型政策形成は、脱炭素や脱プ ラスチックなどの中長期的な政策目標の実現 へ向けた持続可能な社会のビジョンの共有、政策の完全実施前のビジョンに基づく社会実 験を包含している。そして、関係者間の連携によるビジョンの共創と社会の方向性に関する合 意形成と持続可能性の社会的側面が重視される。これは、SCP3.0 時代における持続可能性の課題は、環境政策分野にとどまるものではなく、広く社会技術システムのデザインに関 わるものであることに由来する。ここで提示した協働デザインによるビジョン創発型政策形成 のフレームワークは、研究者と政策担当者による将来シナリオ分析や社会実験による社会デ ザインへ向けた連携の重要性を明確に示すものである。

While the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are broadly framed with 17 goals, the goals and their targets inherently connect with each other forming a complex system. Actions supporting one goal may influence progress in other goals, either positively (synergies) or negatively (trade-offs). Effective managing the synergies and trade-offs is a...

1. The ASEAN State of Climate Change Report (ASCCR) presented ASEAN’s mitigation goal: i) Achieve net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as early as possible in the latter half of the 21st century; and ii) Cap peak GHG emissions as soon as possible after 2030 to ensure the net-zero GHG emission goal is met on schedule. 2. However, the updated...