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Peer-reviewed Article

October 2024

Mitigating Microfiber Pollution in Laundry Wastewater: Insights from a Filtration System Case Study in Galle, Sri Lanka

In Microplastics

Synthetic fibers are widely used in daily life due to their durability, elasticity, low cost, and ease of use. The textile industry is the primary source of synthetic microfibers, as these materials are mostly used in production processes. Globally, plastic pollution has been identified as a major environmental threat in this era, since plastics...

Keywords:

microplastics

Mitigation

Textile Microfiber

Wastewater

Peer-reviewed Article

March 2023

Exploring the Opportunities and Challenges of ICT-Mediated Food Sharing in Japan

In Sustainability MDPI

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been identified as potential enablers for alternative forms of sharing surplus food to prevent food loss and waste. Food sharing platforms can also provide an entry point to the sustainability transition by encouraging its users to confront the systemic causes of unsustainable and inequitable...

Keywords:

food loss and waste

surplus food redistribution

food sharing

food supply chain

Data or Tool

October 2022

IGES NDC Database

The IGES NDC Database compiles the main features of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), which were communicated by the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in order to present the targets and measures that will be taken in order to implement the Paris Agreement, according to countries’ national...

Book Chapter

August 2021

Enabling Japan’s Low Emissions Technology Collaboration with Southeast Asia: The Role of Co-innovation and Co-benefits

In Aligning Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies in Asia

The widespread adoption of low emissions technologies in rapidly developing countries is critical to resolving the climate emergency.1 However, many fast growing economies lack the energy efficient, renewable, and other advanced technologies needed to mitigate climate change. Technology transfer could help address these countries need. Yet the...

Keywords:

Co-innovation

Technology

Low-carbon city

Commissioned Report

March 2021

Project Brochure "City-to-City Collaboration for Zero-Carbon Society 2020"

The project brochure introduces the outline of the programme and the overviews of 20 projects implemented under the MOEJ's programme "FY2020 City-to-City Collaboration for Zero-Carbon Society".

Working Paper

July 2020

Co-innovation for Low Carbon Technologies: The Case of Japan-India Collaboration

Enhanced collaboration with countries with advanced technologies is essential to closing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation gaps in developing countries’ energy consuming and producing sectors. However, traditional models of technology transfer tend to focus on the sale of expensive technologies to developing countries, often subsidised through aid or...

Keywords:

Co-innovation

Submission to Policy Process

June 2020

CCET guideline series on intermediate municipal solid waste treatment technologies Waste-to-Energy Incineration

According to the World Bank (2018), global annual waste generation is expected to jump from 2.01billion tonnes in 2016 to 3.40 billion tonnes over the next 30 years, and this trend is especially true in developing countries in Asia and Africa. This suggests that there has been very little success in reversing the trend of the increased generation...

Policy Report

December 2019

State of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Negombo City, Sri Lanka

Negombo City is one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in Sri Lanka. It is the major commercial and transport centre, and main health service provider for the region. However, municipal solid waste management is a pressing concern for Negombo due to expanding urbanization, increasing income, lack of public awareness, changes in consumption...

Report Chapter

July 2019

Managing Air Pollution in Asia: Towards a Multi-Benefit, Multi-Source Strategy

In Global Environment Outlook 6 For Industry in Asia-Pacific

Asia and the Pacific’s unrelenting industrial development has been a driving force in the economic growth of scores of countries in the region and beyond. This shift has led to greater prosperity, increased urbanization and sustained population growth. Yet as the region has become the “world’s factory”, it is increasingly realizing not only the...

Research Report

July 2019

Digital Revolution and Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges

This report assesses all the positive potential benefits digitalization brings to sustainable development for all. It also highlights the potential negative impacts and challenges going forward, particularly for those impacted by the ‘digital divide’ that excludes primarily people left behind during the Industrial Revolution like the billion that...