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Achieving long term climate mitigation targets for Japan requires deep transformations in the energy system, in particular in the power generation sector. Decarbonization of this sector is unclear due to the uncertain nuclear policy after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. However, many other uncertainties need to be considered, namely the...

Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Hunan Development and Reform Commission, China hosted the 2018 Asia-Pacific Forum on Low Carbon Technology and invited IGES as the discussant for the session on Perspectives from Global/Regional Alliances, Research and Advocacy Organizations on Coordinated Control and Management of Urban Carbon Emission Reduction...

Black Carbon (BC) has been widely recognized as the second largest source of territorial and global climate change as well as a threat to human health. There has been serious concern of BC emission and its impact in Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) due to the use of biomass and fossil fuels for cooking, transportation and industrial activities. An...

The 15th Annual Meeting of the Science and Technology in Society forum was held at the Kyoto International Conference Center from 7 to 9 October, 2018. The forum focused on lights and shadows of science and technology, and brought together global leaders in academia, industry and government from around 80 countries and regions, encouraging them to...

Developing Asia’s growing demand for fossil fuels not only adds pressure on the domestic economy of each country due to higher energy bills but also strangulates the region’s environmental health with the growing emissions. The need for poverty reduction and economic development together forcing the region to continue to depend heavily on...

2018年10月7日～9日、国立京都国際会館で「科学技術と人類の未来に関する国際フォーラム（STSフォーラム）第15回年次総会」が開催されました。フォーラムでは、科学技術の光と影を見据えた長期的持続可能な社会の成立を目指し、約 80 の国及び地域から所属（産・学・官）をこえたリーダーが集まり、活発な議論が行われました。IGES武内理事長は7日に開催された”Climate Change”のセッションで「地域循環共生圏」の概念を紹介し、物質と炭素両方が循環し、自然と共生する社会づくりにおけるこの概念の重要性を強調しました。 Remarks: 科学技術と人類の未来に関する国際フォーラム（STSフォーラム）講演概要

This chapter frames the context, knowledge-base and assessment approaches used to understand the impacts of 1.5°C global warming above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, building on the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change...

The presentation addresses the question of how the HLPF can provide useful policy guidance.

'CDM in Charts' is a booklet with a good reputation for providing a plain and easy-to-understand description of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). Remarks: This book is published by IGES as part of New Market Mechanism Capacity Building under the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. Previous versions of this book are archived: http://pub.iges.or...

京都メカニズムに関する専門的な事項について、 チャート形式で分かりやすく説明することを目指したテキストブックです。 Remarks: Previous versions are archived http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=971