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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...

Past Event

20 February 2024

APFSD Side Event

Promoting Synergistic Approaches in Asia and the Pacific: Addressing the Triple Planetary Crisis

The world faces a triple planetary crisis: climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution threaten to undermine the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Synergistic approaches could potentially help address these three crises...

Past Event

18 December 2023

LCS-RNet Meetings

LCS-RNet 14th Annual Meeting– Further steps towards Net Zero: Ways to accelerate stakeholder collaboration between citizens, policymakers and researchers

On 18-19 December 2023, the Leveraging a Climate-neutral Society Strategic Research Network (LCS-RNet) will hold its 14th Annual Meeting online. Under the main theme “Further steps towards Net Zero: Ways to accelerate stakeholder collaboration...

Past Event

7 June 2023

Climate Security Webinar Series

IGES Perspective on the G7 Hiroshima Summit Outcomes

While re-confirming their commitment towards the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement, the G7 Hiroshima Leaders' Communiqué did not include new and specific targets or actions to achieve that goal. On the other hand, it emphasised the need for "various

Past Event

29 March 2023

APFSD Side Event

Actions to Harnessing Synergies between the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals: Enhancing City to City Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region

While most of the Asia Pacific region is not on track to achieve the Paris Agreement and SDGs, maximizing synergies between climate actions and the SDGs could help accelerate progress. The potential for synergies is particularly great in cities. In f

Past Event

15 December 2022

LCS-RNet Meeting

LCS-RNet 13th Annual Meeting : New Scientific Challenges for Strengthening Actions Based on IPCC AR6

On 15-16 December 2022, the Leveraging a Climate-neutral Society – Strategic Research Network (LCS-RNet) organised its 13th annual meeting, inviting several prominent experts and researchers involved in IPCC AR6 WGIII. This annual meeting set “New Sc

Past Event

21 July 2022

Third Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development [Plenary Session]

Calling for an integrative approach: Climate, SDGs and biodiversity Serious concerns were underlined at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) regarding the current NDC targets

Past Event

20 July 2022

Climate & SDGs Conference [Side Events]

Applying Circulating and Ecological Sphere (CES) Concept for Placing Urban Rural Linkages at the Core of Localization of Climate and Sustainable Development Actions.

The ambitions expressed in the UN2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction underscores the urgency with which societies need to transform towards a more livabl

Past Event

15 November 2021

Making Asia-Pacific Resilient to Climate Change: The Effort and Perspective of the Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform (AP-PLAT)

In 2018 AP-PLAT was established at the G20 summit in Japan with the vision of helping Asia-Pacific countries build a climate-resilient and sustainable society. This session, as a collaboration with the East Asia Sea Congress 2021, which is hosted...

Past Event

9 July 2021

HLPF2021 Side Event

Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Role of the Satoyama Initiative for Green and Blue Recovery

In line with the key theme of the 2021 HLPF, this side event will highlight the role of socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) under the Satoyama Initiative in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as its...