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This study is based on the author’s previous research carried out in Bangkok before the COVID outbreak and after the COVID outbreak, and in Hanoi for both the FW issue and single-use plastic issue to provide a comparative analysis of challenges and opportunities for household food and plastic waste reduction.

Urban food waste issues in developing economies have recently attracted the attention of policymakers, practitioners, and academics in the course of implementing the Paris Agreement and the SDGs. In our case study city of Bangkok, Thailand, household food waste generation doubled from 2003 to 2018, with a similar increase in per capita amounts...

With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set to end in 2030, the world has entered a “decisive decade”—a quickly closing window that could determine whether a sustainable future is within reach. The following messages outline steps that IGES, policymakers, businesses, civil society, and other stakeholders can take to implement the five SDGs...

Reversing ecosystem degradation and halting global biodiversity loss due to climate change and other anthropogenic drivers are essential for socio-economic development and human wellbeing, as well as for advancing global sustainability. The latest initiative in this direction is the ‘Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework’, which establishes a...

The international workshop “Building Resilience to the Risk of Compound and Cascading Disasters in the Context of Climate Change: Launch of the New e-learning Course on AP-PLAT” was held online on 21 January 2022, organised by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ) and co-organised by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)...

In September 2014, Kashmir witnessed a catastrophic flood resulting in a significant loss of lives and property. Such massive losses could have been avoided if any structural support such as dams were constructed in the Jhelum basin, which has a history of devastating floods. The GIS based multicriteria analysis (MCA) model provided three...

持続可能な開発目標（ SDGs ）が定めた 2030 年という期限を前に、世界はすでに「決定的な 10 年」とも言うべき期間に突入している。これは、持続可能な未来の実現に向けた残り時間がなくなりつつあることを示している。 2022 年のハイレベル政治フォーラム（ HLPF ）、アジア太平洋持続可能な開発フォーラム（ APFSD ）および関連フォーラムでは、 SDGs の 5 つの目標（ SDG 4 、 5 、 14 、 15 、 17 ）についての詳細な検討が予定されている。「すべての人の持続可能な未来を実現するためのプラネタリー・バウンダリーを超えない暮らし」を実現するために、これらの目標の達成に向けて、 IGES 、政策立案者、企業、市民社会、その他の関係者が取るべき方策を...

A Voluntary Local Review (VLR) is an instrument to review and follow-up progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), thus accelerating their localisation. Since 2018, a growing number of local governments worldwide are turning to the VLR process to articulate their sustainable development policies, highlighting the growing...

This paper explores synergies between climate action and Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs)—an instrument to localise the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development used by regional and local governments to report and monitor their progress towards attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper argues that fighting climate change and...

Urban shrinkage contradicts the normative assumption of cities as growth machines. Shrinking cities are stigmatised as wretched places, prone to high unemployment rates, low quality of life standards, and urban blight. Compelled by this dominant narrative of loss, planning responses have focused on reversing declining trajectories and returning...