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Asia Smart City Conference 2025, organized by City of Yokohama in November 2025, organized a session on Mutual pitches between city and company representatives on urban issues and technological solutions. This session shared the needs of Asian cities in addressing urban challenges, including rapid urbanization, population concentration in city...

At Osaka Expo 2025, as part of Sustainability Week (October 5–13, 2025) at the Italy Pavilion, the Lombardy Region – DG for Environment and Climate – in collaboration with the Lombardy Green Chemistry Association, presents a workshop and an exhibition on circular economy, bioeconomy, AI for sustainability, agri-food innovation, and urban...

At Osaka Expo 2025, EU pavillion organised nine in-person events over three days on circular economy. On September 23, 2025, the event organized a session on " Plastic planet: Innovating solutions for a cleaner tomorrow". Hotta of IGES was a panelist of the session. The session is available in Youtube.

The EPR AMS Focal Point Workshop aims to serve as a platform for peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, fostering capacity building and regional collaboration. This workshop brought together participants to evaluate the merits and challenges of different EPR schemes—such as mandatory and voluntary—share experiences and best practices and discuss...

The presentation examines the need for a paradigm shift from traditional national security to one that incorporates climate security as a fundamental component of human security. The study, based on field research in Sri Lanka, investigates how National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) can be restructured to explicitly address climate security concerns...

The global environmental crises – climate change, biodiversity loss, land degradation and desertification, and pollution and waste – are damaging human well-being and hindering progress of the economic and social dimensions of all the SDGs. Addressing these crises is a prerequisite for achieving the SDGs. Therefore, environmental goals and targets...

日本環境衛生センターが環境省からの委託業務として、2025年1月27日（月）～１月31日（金）に実施したタイ国の天然資源環境省（MONRE）公害管理局（PCD）、工業省工場局（DIW）、内務省 （MOI）地方自治振興局（DLA）の職員に対する研修に貢献。IGES堀田が「日本の拡大生産者責任（EPR）制度とアジアでの展開とその課題について」、中央大学佐々木創教授と連携して研修を実施した。

On December 23, 2024, Yokohama city, Da Nang city, and IGES co-organized the Final WS of JICA Partnership Project for Promoting Source Separation and Recycling (the 3Rs) in Da Nang City: Collaboration building on Yokohama’s Experience on Municipal Solid Waste Management (D-3RYM). The WS was -To review and confirm the key outcomes and achievements...

Hotta contributed as a speaker of SESSION 9. ACHIEVING CIRCULARITY OF PLASTIC: INSIGHTS INTO PLASTIC MANAGEMENT AND PLASTIC LEAKAGE MONITORING.

Hotta contributed as a panleist of the Side Event for INC-5 Plastic Pollution organized by Korean Environment Institute organized in November 2024 in Busan, Republic of Korea. Objectives of this roundtable include: 1) Explore policy approaches to plastic pollution: Discuss and evaluate various policy strategies to combat plastic pollution at...