Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)

UNFCCC COP29

G20 2024

ISAP2024

IGES Plastic Focus: Tackling Pollution and Advancing Circular Solutions

IGES and Climate Security

1.5C Lifestyles

Project Updated : December 2024

IGES Plastic Focus: Tackling Pollution and Advancing Circular Solutions

Plastic Pollution as a Global Agenda Nearly a decade has passed since plastic pollution and its countermeasures began to be recognised as a major global agenda. A key turning point in this recognition was the 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur...

Project Updated : December 2024

IGES Activity on COP29

From 11 to 22 November, the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan. As the highest decision-making body of the UNFCCC, COP oversees the...

18 October 2024

Breaking the Plastic Habit in ASEAN Countries: Project Phase II ‐ Expanding the Application of Behavioural Insights to Reduce Single-use Plastic Waste in Cities and Communities in Asia

Plastic is pervasive in modern life, making its reduction a complex societal challenge. Reducing plastic consumption will necessitate substantial shifts in societal behaviour, supported by increased public awareness of the environmental and health...

10 October 2024

What to expect at CBD COP16

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is the world’s most comprehensive, and probably most consequential, multilateral environmental agreement on biodiversity. With almost 200 Parties (countries and the EU), the CBD covers a broad sweep of...

Project Updated : November 2024

IGES Support activity for Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)

Based on the Paris Agreement’s enhanced transparency framework (ETF), countries regularly provide information on their progress with national climate actions. IGES supports full implementation of the ETF by all countries...

Policy Brief

November 2024

Knowledge Gaps and Policy Needs to Tackle Loss and Damage

Knowledge Gaps and Policy Needs to Tackle Loss and Damage

Key messages: 1. Climate change results in substantial loss and damage to societies and natural systems when it is not mitigated by reducing greenhouse gas emissions or averted through adaptation

SDGs