SEA of Solutions Back-to-Back Meeting: Building Synergy and Collaboration on Plastics in the ASEAN Member States: Towards Integrated Solutions to Marine Plastic Pollution
Dr Yasuhiko Hotta, Sustainable Consumption and Production Program Director of IGES, on behalf of Mr Michikazu Kojima, Research Fellow of ERIA, emphasized the need to collect more data on which, science-driven policymaking has to develop. He also put forth the new capacity building needs in the region that the Regional Knowledge Centre can...
Paris agreement should not be seen as just one policy process But,in more wider changes in policy landscape on sustainability. Since 2015, we see mainstreaming of very ambitious sustainability goals such as decarbonization by the end of century in the Paris Agreement, marine plastic-free society by 2050 in G20’s Osaka Blue Ocean Vision, or...
Hotta made a keynote presentation in front of ASEAN member countries and Japanese businesses on how plastic issues can be an opportunity to promote circular economy in ASEAN member states.
Hotta made a guest presentation on how extended producer responsibility can be applied in the context of emerging economies such as India in the occasion of policy dialogue orgnized by Policy Times of India.
This is a scoping paper to frame the study to assess current state and changing patterns of usages, consumption as well as regulation on single use plastics which is triggered or accelerated by COVID-19 pandemic. The study aims to reveal changing consumption patterns of single use plastics through case-studies in selected cities. The study tries to...
presentation on Circular Economy related policy in Japan in International symposium for celebration the 25th anniversary of Korea-Japan joint conference