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This study analysed the greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement cost of renewable energy projects developed through the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in China, India and ASEAN countries. The results from this study show that the average abatement cost for all renewable energy technology including biomass, hydro, wind and solar renewable energy in ASEAN...

Article 5 of the Paris Agreement specifies implementation of REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) through results-based payments. Currently, however, REDD+ resultsbased financing is insufficient for incentivizing full implementation of REDD+ by developing countries. In this article, we examine how a new bilateral...

This chapter uses the Japan National Report on Disaster Reduction to the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (Kobe, Japan) in 2005 and the National Progress Report on the Implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (2011-2013) premised on the Hyogo Framework for Action priority areas format to assess the status of disaster risk...

While being broadly framed as 17 separate and diverse elements, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and associated targets inherently interlink with one another making up indivisible parts of sustainability from a systemic perspective. Actions or measures taken for achieving one goal may be mutually reinforcing or contradictory with achieving...

This new research report— based on surveys and personal interviews with as many as 250 Japanese companies—represents a first look at actions being undertaken by Japanese companies on SDG implementation. Key observations and findings of the report include: - Growing awareness, yet challenges remain. Awareness about the SDGs has increased among CSR...

Food waste remains a critical issue in Japan, especially in light of the country's low food self-sufficiency rate and shortage of available landfill sites for waste disposal. In order to evaluate options for further preventing and mitigating food waste in Japan, we analyzed food waste trends by estimating the disparity between calorie/protein...

Food waste remains a critical issue in Japan, especially in light of the country's low food self-sufficiency rate and shortage of available landfill sites for waste disposal. In order to evaluate options for further preventing and mitigating food waste in Japan, we analyzed food waste trends by estimating the disparity between calorie/protein...

「20年後の日本人は日々の生活ができているか」 「20年後に世界の環境は破綻していないか」 この問いかけに答えられる社会を築くため、企業の経済活動や社会基盤＝自治体や政府などが認識するべき”具体的な行動目標“が「SDGs＝持続可能な開発目標」です。 　 一般社団法人グローバル・コンパクト・ネットワーク・ジャパン（GCNJ）および公益財団法人 地球環境戦略研究機関（IGES）は、国連の「持続可能な開発目標（SDGs）」について、日本企業の取組み実態に関する最新の調査結果をとりまとめた「動き出したSDGsとビジネス～日本企業の取組み現場から～」を公表しました。 SDGsは国連で採択され、日本政府も昨年12月に実施指針が公表されており、世界各国において...

この報告書は、川崎市が、環境省、国連環境計画国際環境技術センター（UNEP IETC）および地球環境戦略研究機関（IGES）との緊密な協力により、開発途上国に対して、日本の中 央政府および地方自治体における経験から廃棄物処理について学んでもらうことを目的として作成した。

Following The Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, environmental educators in Japan needed to face a tough introspection – what could environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) have done to prevent, or reduce, its disastrous damages. In this context, promoting resilience of communities to confront disasters emerged...