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IGESは鹿児島県と鹿児島市の後援のもと、 2022年 8月～ 10月にかけて、市民参加型の気候変動に関するワークショップ「かごしま 1.5℃ライフスタイルワークショップ」を鹿児島市にて開催しました。国連パリ協定の野心的な 1.5℃目標（地球の平均気温上昇を 1.5℃以内に抑制）を、カーボンフットプリントの概念から考え、個人の生活様式変容から温室効果ガス排出量を削減し、生活の質も向上する「 1.5℃ライフスタイル」を市民に普及する目的の実践型のワークショップです。参加者は、将来の地域社会を担う鹿児島県在住の若者を対象とし、自治体、企業、団体など地域のステークホルダーとの意見交換も交え、約 3ヵ月間において、 4つのステップ（気候変動について知る、対策を行う、考える、対話をする）を行いました。...

The economic disruptions from the Ukraine war have intensified short term concerns about energy and food security, as well as access to critical minerals. Climate security is also increasingly urgent. This paper urges governments to speed up, not slow down, transitions away from fossil fuels and toward more sustainable development patterns. The war...

The study was conducted under the ITTO Project PDD/21 Rev. 1.2 "Promotion of Sustainable Domestic Wood Consumption in Vietnam" to examine policies and initiatives for promoting sustainable wood use by Japan's public/private sectors and identify key approaches and measures to draw lessons for other countries seeking to promote sustainable wood use...

Open waste burning is a widespread practice that is provoked by a lack of systematic waste collection, the unavailability of other disposal options, and inadequate land for the final disposal of the collected waste, especially in low- and middle-income countries. From a global perspective, two billion people have no waste collection at all, and the...

Dr Yasuhiko Hotta, Vice President of APRSCP and Programme Director of Sustainable Consumption and Production Area at IGES, identified six challenges for adopting EPR: interpretation of EPR, the difficulty of identifying producers, the infeasibility of the take-back scheme, competition with the informal waste management sector, waste collection and...

For a pollution free planet, UNEP has been implementing plastic pollution-related projects in the Mekong basin countries since 2019. Past projects aimed to identify a region-based model for monitoring and assessment of plastic leakage and pollution reduction targeting land-based plastic leakage entering waterways such as rivers and canals or...

At the session 2 of 16th APRSCP, along with GIZ, SWITCh-Asia, and UNEP, IGES presented a key concept for APRSCP Strategy, IGES emphasized the changing emphasis of SCP over the last 30 years. Also, considering many ongoing international initiatives on SCP and circular economy, it is necessary to consider collaboration and synergies among many on...

The objective of this report is to provide an analysis of the current policy environment for garment production in Cambodia, applying a systems lens to identify challenges and opportunities for enhancing the sustainability of the sector. To maintain the competitiveness of Cambodia’s garment sector in the global market, a shift to sustainable...

IGES organized a training course on muncipal solid waste management and circular economy on November 14-16, 2022 for ADB staff. During the training, Hotta provided a lecture as follows; Hotta shared that with economy and social development, policy is shifting towards CE. He buttressed his case with Japan as a case study. He stressed that in 60s and...

A global agreement to end plastic pollution must be based on pertinent, multi-disciplinary knowledge. Consideration of the full life cycle impacts of plastics and substitutes is important to achieve sustainable solutions rather than shifting the burden. Hence, this process requires considerations of fossil-based and biobased feedstocks for plastic...