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横浜市環境保全協議会が年6回発行する「かんきょう横浜」に、IGESの研究員が交代で寄稿しています。

自然の力を克服できるほど人智は優れてはいない。人間活動拡大が地球資源の限界を超えはじめ、自らが起こした温暖化が人類生存を脅かしている。今始まる脱炭素社会への転換は自然共生による持続可能な社会に向けての第一歩である。自然への畏敬と調和を念頭に自然の摂理をふまえた科学に基づき、大至急この大転換を成し遂げる必要がある。

This IGES Issue Brief is an update of policy developments related to sustainable finance in Japan between December 2020 and February 2021. Section 1 provides highlights of sustainable finance policy developments in Japan. Section 2 provides policy developments and relevant sources at a glance and in chronological order. Section 3 provides a...

Biodiversity knowledge is communicated by scientists to policymakers at the biodiversity “science-policy interface” (SPI). Although the biodiversity SPI is the subject of a growing body of literature, gaps in our understanding include the efficacy of mechanisms to bridge the interface, the quality of information exchanged between science and policy...

This presentation talks about the rapid regional integration that is happening in Asia and beyond, its positive and negative impacts especially inters of how local risks tend to spill over beyond borders. It presents the cases of the Bangkok floods of 2011, the global food price crisis of 2008, and how financial markets tend to magnify the risks...

Commentary on reporting options under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement. In this paper, we provided a summary of reporting options and its evaluation for the three information items which are required in the initial report and regular information under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement: 1) Timing of submission of the initial report; 2)...

本ガイドブックは、二国間クレジット制度（JCM）で用いる方法論に関し、その開発から承認までのプロセス、及び方法論の構成内容について解説しています。これからJCM事業の実施を検討する事業者他、JCM方法論を初歩から理解したいと考える読者向けに編集したJCM方法論に関する入門書的ガイドブックです。

This guidebook describes the process related to the JCM methodology from development to approval of the methodologies used in the Japan Crediting Mechanism (JCM), as well as the components of the JCM methodologies. This guidebook is designed as an introductory guide for the companies who are considering applying for JCM projects and for other...

Mitigation pathways by Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) describe future emissions that keep global warming below specific temperature limits and are compared with countries’ collective greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction pledges. This is needed to assess mitigation progress and inform emission targets under the Paris Agreement. Currently...

National, regional and global CO 2 emissions and removals from forests were estimated for the period 1990–2020 using as input the country reports of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020. The new Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates, based on a simple carbon stock change approach, update published...