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Since the late 2000s, the global timber trade has undergone emerging legality requirements on imported timber products in major consumer countries. As a key country in supplying tropical hardwood, Myanmar's potential to participate in expanding regulated markets rests on its capacity to hold accountability for the legal origin of timber products...

Evidence of legal harvest is becoming necessary for all timber importers in Japan following the enactment of the Clean Wood Act in 2016. Because of the complex supply chain with numerous players and the absence of TLAS, securement of the evidence for timber imported from China is generally considered challenging by Japanese importers. However, some...

Forest ecosystems play an indispensable role in addressing various pressing sustainability and social-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, global forest loss has been, and still is today, an important issue. Here, based on spatially explicit data, we show that over the past 60 years (1960–2019), the global...

Place attachment and ecocentric attitude are the important determinants of conservation behaviour, especially for traditionally managed landscapes. In this paper, we explore the relationship between place attachment and the ecocentric attitude of farmers engaged in Jhum cultivation ( aka shifting /slash and burn cultivation) in the Zunheboto...

本稿は、WRIのワーキングペーパ―　"Consideration of Nature-based Solutions as Offsets in Corporate Climate Change Mitigation Strategies (Seymour and Langer 2021)"の日本語訳である。 主要メッセージ 多くの企業が、自らが関与する化石燃料由来の温室効果ガス（ GHG ）の排出量の一部をオフセット（相殺）するために、気候変動対策としてネイチャー・ベースド・ソリューション（自然に基づく解決策： NBS ）を取り入れ始めている。 社会全体の GHG 排出量を実質ゼロ、いわゆるネット・ゼロ・エミッションの状態に移行するには、 NBS への資金供給が不可欠かつ緊急に必要である。...

Forest ecosystems play an indispensable role in addressing various pressing sustainability and social-ecological challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem services deterioration, hence the monitoring of the world's forests is crucial. As part of the global forest assessment workflow, a forest is generally classified and...

Climate change has caused vulnerability not only to the forest ecosystem but also to forest-dependent communities. Therefore, its management is essential to increase forest ecosystem services and reduce vulnerability to climate change using an integrated approach. Although many scientific studies examined climate change impact on forest ecosystems...

This report covers the technical assessment of the voluntary submission of Thailand on its proposed forest reference emission level (FREL) and forest reference level (FRL) in accordance with decision 13/CP.19. The author at IGES (Chisa Umemiya) served as a member of the technical assessment team.

UNFCCCC の下、各国は定められた IPCC ガイドラインに則して温室効果ガス (GHG) インベントリを作成することとなっており、本サブテーマの目的は、他のサブテーマで得られる研究成果をこのガイドラインに基づき統合的に日本のインベントリに反映する方法を開発することである。また、土地利用変化に伴う土壌炭素量変化に関する報告強化の必要性が高い途上国（ UNFCCC 附属書 I 国以外）を対象に、本課題の成果の応用を含めた対応策を提示する。主要先進国（ UNFCCC 附属書 I 国）のインベントリの詳細な調査及び専門家へのヒアリング調査から、土壌炭素量変化に関する報告の課題は大きく①遷移期間、②算定・報告の区分、③開発地への転用に関する取扱いがあることが分かった...

Despite the growing global support for capacity building to improve soil management, the estimation and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, especially from mineral soils in national GHG inventories, is still very limited. In 2021, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and FAO conducted a global survey to...