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Training or Learning Material

March 2024

Usage manual and characteristic of soap-based fire fighting foam in English and Indonesian

March 2024

How to Use the Soap-based Fire Fighting Foam

IGES has been collaborating with Shabondama Soap., Ltd., the City of Kitakyusu, the University of Kitakyushu, and the University of Palangka Raya to implment the SDGs Verification Survey funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), titled as "Disseminating Japanese Technologies to Extinguish Forest and Peatland Fire Using...

Keywords:

climate change

Climate change mitigation

forest

forest fire

peatland

Indonesia

Commissioned Report

January 2024

Final Report Japan - IURC Asia & Australasia Project no. PI/2020/419/-885

This is the final report of the city-to-city collaboration between EU cities (including one from the UK) and Japanese cities under the International Urban and Regional Cooperation (IURC) Asia and Australasia. During 2021-2023, thirteen EU cities (including one UK city) from ten countries and ten Japanese cities participated in the project and...

Presentation

December 2023

インドネシア森林・泥炭地火災の消火技術普及・実証事業

第15回持続可能なアジア太平洋に関する国際フォーラムのポスターセッションにて発表

インドネシアの中央カリマンタン州において実施している「環境配慮型石けん系泡消火剤を用いた森林・泥炭地火災の消火技術普及・実証事業」に関する活動概要である。シャボン玉石けん株式会社、北九州市立大学、北九州市消防局、地球環境戦略研究機関（IGES）が、パランカラヤ大学をカウンターパートとして、国際協力機構（JICA）のSDGsビジネス支援事業として、2023年5月～2025年5月において実施している。シャボン玉石けんが開発した石けん系泡消火剤の消火性能、環境性能、社会経済性を実証するとともに、現地に適合した普及方法を調査している。本ポスターは、IGES主催の「第15回持続可能なアジア・太平洋国際フォーラム」（2023年12月に、於：横浜）のポスターセッションにおいて発表された。

Keywords:

気候変動

森林

Commissioned Report

March 2022

令和３年度都市間連携の促進等を通じた都市の脱炭素化支援委託業務報告書

今年度の本事業では、都市間連携事業を通じた日米連携による第三国の脱炭素支援の推進するため情報収集、情報発信を行うウェブサイトの構築・拡充、また、 post コロナ・ with コロナにおける社会変容を捉まえたうえでの環境インフラ導入等の議論を行うための国際フォーラムを開催した。これらに加え、都市間連携事業パンフレット等の作成、ウェブサイトを通じた情報発信を行う等、 post コロナ・ with コロナにおける脱炭素都市のあり方について検討を行い、脱炭素・低炭素化事業の案件形成や制度構築支援の強化・推進に努めた。

Policy Brief

September 2021

Envisioning 1.5-Degree Lifestyles: Policies for Low-Carbon Cities in 2030

The concept of 1.5-degree lifestyles involves changes in household consumption for achieving levels of per person carbon footprint compatible with the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement (IPCC, 2018). This requires, on average, emitting the equivalent of 2.5 tons of CO₂ per person per year by 2030, and 0.7 tons of CO₂ per person per year by 2050...

Peer-reviewed Article

March 2021

Sustainable transitions towards a resilient and decentralised future: Japan’s Circulating and Ecological Sphere (CES)

In Sustainability Science

Global environmental change, the depletion of natural resources, and unacceptable levels of pollution, among other anthropogenic impacts on the planet and its ecosystems, demand a radical shift in the way humankind develops. Global agreements like the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” or the “Paris Agreement on Climate Change” seek to...

Presentation

July 2020

Role of the Satoyama Initiative for the Achievement of the SDGs and Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework in the Face of COVID-19

High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development 2020 Side Event "Satoyama Initiative – Societies in Harmony with Nature: An inclusive approach for communities, landscapes and seascapes"

This presentation is about the critical role of socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (SEPLS) for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. It overviews the Satoyama Initiative, including the Satoyama Development Mechanism, and discusses resilience in the face of COVID-19...

Commentary (Op. Ed)

September 2019

Assessing the HLPF Four Years On: Enhancing Integration, Linking Processes, and Strengthening Political Leadership

Story Highlights; The HLPF has struggled to encourage countries to “integrate the three dimensions” of sustainable development, even though interlinkages among the 17 SDGs and their targets have been identified. A clear illustration of different tools, approaches, and conceptual frameworks for better understanding interlinkages between the SDGs...

Commissioned Report

July 2019

Circulating and Ecological Economy -- Japan's Vision for Realisation of Decarbonisation and SDGs

The Japanese government has proposed a vision called "Circulating and Ecological Economy" in the Fifth Basic Environment Plan approved by the Cabinet in April 2018. The Circulating and Ecological Economy is an idea that aims to develop self-reliant and decentralized societies by leveraging regional resources, including natural environments and...

PR, Newsletter or Other

January 2019

IGES's Total Solution on Mitigation Actions in Developing Cities: A Case in Semarang, Indonesia

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and Semarang City Government concluded an agreement to collaborate and support the implementation of City Resilience Strategy (CRS) on 24 May, 2016. IGES provides a total solution on actionable plans by conducting the following activities (Figure 1): 1) Developing low-carbon society scenarios...