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神奈川県鎌倉市材木座の公会堂のリフォームを記念して、開催された地域防災と環境問題、まちづくりのシンポジウムで、建築家と並んで、IGES堀田康彦がパネリストを務めた。

The global hospitality industry is at a pivotal juncture, confronting a pervasive challenge — the menace of plastic pollution and marine litter. The Global Tourism Plastics Initiative (GTPI) notes that approximately 80 percent of all tourism activities occur in coastal areas, positioning the hotel industry as a significant contributor to the...

Solid waste management is a critical issue that affects both the environment and public health, posing significant challenges to communities and governments worldwide. In Cambodia, like in many developing nations, effective solid waste management is a pressing concern due to rapid urbanization, population growth, and industrialization. The rise in...

Sri Lanka faces substantial challenges in managing its Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), attributed to factors like population growth, urbanization, changing consumption patterns, and fast growth of industrial and service sectors. Alarmingly, only 37% of city and district centers in the country benefit from official MSW collection services. The use of...

This document presents the methodology and findings for a national plastic waste inventory for Sri Lanka. It has been prepared as part of the project titled “Marine litter and micro-plastics: Promoting the environmentally sound management of plastic wastes and achieving the prevention and minimization of the generation of plastic wastes,”...

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...

日本科学技術ジャーナリスト会議の2023年10月定例会で、IGES研究員　堀田康彦、粟生木千佳が行った講演を基にしたニュースレター記事。

ISAP2023の全体会合２にパネリストとして堀田康彦が登壇しました。循環経済分野に関して、堀田康彦は、プラスチック汚染に関する国際条約の策定に関心が集まっているとして、プラスチックが様々な分野に関連することから、統合的な取り組みにつながる可能性を指摘しました。国際的な合意を地域、各国、自治体レベルに落とし込むとともに、各レベルの課題を国際的な目標設定に反映していく研究活動を展開しており、ベトナム・ダナン市での廃棄物管理プロジェクトと、国内諸都市を対象とした1.5℃ライフスタイルプロジェクトを紹介しました。

IGES and Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) conducted the Regional-CES Scoping Project to assess the potential of promoting the Regional-CES concept in Asia. The scoping project organised workshops to engage key national and local stakeholders in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia in order to promote the Regional-CES concept...

Mahidol University and UNEP co-organized an expert review meeting of their on-going publication project on " Assessment Report on Plastic Pollution Management in Asia and the Pacific."". Hotta facilitated a session 1 on policy approaches to plastic pollution with providing a guiding questions and major discussion points for the report.