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Peer-reviewed Article
In Remote Sensing
Author:
Gowhar
Meraj
Shruti
Kanga
Abhijeet
Ambadkar
Suraj Kumar
Singh
Majid
Farooq
Akshay
Rai
Netrananda
Sahu
Globally, estimating crop acreage and yield is one of the most critical issues that policy and decision makers need for assessing annual crop productivity and food supply. Nowadays, satellite remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) can enable the estimation of these crop production parameters over large geographic areas. The present...
Presentation
IGES 関 ⻄ 研究センターは、 公益社団法人日本環境技術協会( JETA )からご招待をいただき、 2022 年 6 月 23 日に、同協会の 技術交流会において、「インドにおける日本の環境技術移転促進に向けた JITMAP の取り組み」というテーマで、 JITMAP の活動と成果、及び、今後の課題と方向性に関して 講演をしました。 本交流会は、 JETA の会員企業や当協会が、インドの大気汚染分野を中心とした現在の動向やインドで実施されているブルー・スカイ協力や JITMAP の取り組みへの理解を深め ると共に、国際貢献に果たせる役割について協議を通じて模索することを目的として開催されました。 講演では、 JITMAP の 活動内容、対象技術、活動地域...
Book Chapter
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 世界経済の成長センターとなってきた東アジアが様々なリスクにさらされています。緊張が高まる台湾海峡や朝鮮半島といった伝統的な安全保障リスクだけではありません。中国の台頭などによるパワーシフトと戦後の国際秩序の揺らぎが地政学的リスクを増大させ、「新冷戦」とも称される米中の大国間競争の影響が地域の経済や産業、科学技術、文化、教育など多方面に及び始めています。米ソの冷戦の最前線が欧州だったのに対し、「新冷戦」の最前線は東アジアだとの見方があります。  この地域の著しい技術革新や産業経済の発展自体も新たなリスクをもたらしています。人工知能(AI)などのデジタル技術の発展はさらなる経済成長のエンジンとなる一方、人々の想像を超えて、経済社会の在り方そのものを変える可能性があります...
Presentation
Annual Meeting of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Working Group on Agriculture (WGA)
This presentation argues that the Food-Water-Energy nexus should not be seen as plot levelel or a local level or a national level issue but it has roots beyond individual countries. Hence, the issue is broadly outside the purview of most stakeholders operating at this level. It demands a robust regional and international cooperation aided by robust...
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Peer-reviewed Article
In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Author:
Hooman
Farzaneh
Mehrnoosh
Dashti
Dagvadorj
Damdin
Zifei
Nie
This article quantifies the environmental, health, and economic co-benefits from the use of solar electricity and heat generation in the Ger area (a sub-district of traditional residences and private houses) in Ulaanbaatar (UB), Mongolia. The quantification of the featured co-benefits is based on calculating emissions reductions from the...
Issue Brief
This IGES Issue Brief is an update of policy developments related to sustainable finance in Japan between February 2022 and April 2022. In this period, policy work pertaining to sustainability-related disclosure continued on multiple fronts. At the Financial Services Agency (FSA), the ‘Working Group on Corporate Disclosure of the Financial System...
Conference Paper
Tree growing in the tropics has been attracting international attention in recent years as a climate change mitigation measure, and potential sites for afforestation have been identified. However, past experience has shown that afforestation projects in the tropics are accompanied by issues such as land rights and medium- to long-term management...
Training or Learning Material
This brief summarises the proceedings and outcomes of the webinar on open waste burning held on 22nd April 2022, co-organized by three parties– the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies-IGES Centre Collaborating with UNEP on Environmental Technologies (IGES-CCET), the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), and the United Nations Industrial...
Issue Brief
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The long-standing relationship between Japan and India forms a favourable precursor for the countries to collaborate further under the Article 6 mechanisms of the Paris Agreement. While Japan’s support to India for promoting low-carbon technology and clean energy use can help minimise carbon emissions, the partnership will in turn give greater...