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10 May 2023

The inception workshop on the "Development of National Methane Emissions Reduction Roadmap for Cambodia”

Methane (CH4) is a powerful greenhouse gas (GHG) emitted by human activities and has a direct influence on climate, but also indirectly affects human health, crop yields and the quality and productivity of vegetation through its role as an...

Past Event

24 February 2023

International Online Conference

Innovations in citizen engagement toward advancing the decarbonisation of cities and lifestyles

The need to decarbonise our lifestyles to help limit global warming to 1.5°C is now widely recognized, according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group III titled Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate

Past Event

28 March 2022

APFSD side event

A One Health Approach to Regulating Ocean Microplastics: Translating Advocacy into Action

The COVID-19 crisis has focused a growing amount of attention on the close interrelationship between human, animal and environmental health. Efforts to capture this interrelationship in policy and practice are often summarised under the heading of “o

Past Event

16 March 2022

Greening Health Care Waste Management: Policies and Good Practices

The provision of sustainable health care waste management (HCWM) has been receiving increasing global attention. Due to the risk of COVID-19 transmission, there has been a growing need for proper medical waste management worldwide, particularly in de

Past Event

23 July 2020

City to City Inception Meeting under Closing the Loop Project

IGES organizes the City to City Inception Meeting as part of the “Closing the Loop” Project On 23 July, IGES, in partnership with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), and with financial support from...

Past Event

6 July 2018

"Climate Change, Globalisation and the Vulnerability of Cities" Co-hosted by IGES and UNU

Public Seminar featuring Professor William Rees, recipient of the 2012 Boulding Prize in Ecological Economics, Blue Planet Prize laureate, and co-developer of “ecological footprint” analysis The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)...