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Food waste remains a critical issue in Japan, especially in light of the country's low food self-sufficiency rate and shortage of available landfill sites for waste disposal. In order to evaluate options for further preventing and mitigating food waste in Japan, we analyzed food waste trends by estimating the disparity between calorie/protein...

IGESの気候変動とエネルギー領域では、6月1日にトランプ大統領から発表された米国のパリ協定脱退決定に対する各国、地方政府、国際機関、有力企業・企業団体、NGO・シンクタンク等からの反応やコメントを一覧表としてまとめた（ただし、世界のすべての反応やコメントを網羅している訳ではなく、以下は一覧表の範囲内での分析である）。 本一覧表はこちら。 米国のパリ協定脱退決定に対する世界の反応 まず国レベルでは、G7諸国、豪州、NZといった先進国のみならず、中国、インド、ブラジル、南アフリカといった新興国、南米諸国等、ほぼすべての国が米国のパリ協定脱退決定に対して「失望」「遺憾」という趣旨の反応と、米国の決定に関わらずパリ協定の下での気候変動対策への継続的なコミットメントを表明している...

IGES Climate and Energy Area has gathered responses and comments from national and local governments, international organisations, leading companies/industry associations, NGOs, think tanks, etc. on the decision of the US to withdraw from the Paris Agreement announced by President Donald J. Trump on 1 June 2017 and compiled them into one tabulated...

Rural household water consumption has not been well-researched compared to urban water consumption, particularly in developing countries. Using cross-sectional household-level data from 330 villages in a drought-prone rural district of India, determinants influencing domestic water consumption are studied. Per capita water consumption is found to...

This new research report— based on surveys and personal interviews with as many as 250 Japanese companies—represents a first look at actions being undertaken by Japanese companies on SDG implementation. Key observations and findings of the report include: - Growing awareness, yet challenges remain. Awareness about the SDGs has increased among CSR...

Food waste remains a critical issue in Japan, especially in light of the country's low food self-sufficiency rate and shortage of available landfill sites for waste disposal. In order to evaluate options for further preventing and mitigating food waste in Japan, we analyzed food waste trends by estimating the disparity between calorie/protein...

Developing methodology to evaluate decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts of materials use in Japan. The study estimates environmental impact at macro level associated with material use using MFA and LCA.

This study uses a spatially-explicit land-use/land-cover (LULC) modeling approach to model and map the future (2016–2030) LULC of the area surrounding the Laguna de Bay of Philippines under three different scenarios: ‘business-as-usual’, ‘compact development’, and ‘high sprawl’ scenarios. The Laguna de Bay is the largest lake in the Philippines and...

Since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2016, scientist have been studying its “indivisible whole” nature, with the objectives to propose viable methods and tools for integrated planning of the implementation of the 17 SDGs. Furthermore, their 169 targets were developed through an inclusive and comprehensive process...

This report is an outcome of the research carried out in the second year of the APN-funded project on Assessing Community Risk Insurance Initiatives and Identifying Enabling Policy and Institutional Factors for Maximizing Climate Change adaptation and disaster risk reduction benefits from risk insurance. The report presents case studies from...