ESG News For Kitakyushu

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will host the 16th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2024). This year, the Plenary Sessions will be held on Tuesday, 23 July 2024 at Pacifico Yokohama as a hybrid event, with participation in-person and online. In addition, the Thematic Tracks will be held online from July to November 2024.ISAP is a forum where experts, international organisations, government, business and NGO representatives gather to engage in

On Friday 1 March 2024, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), in cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment, Japan, established the Technical Support Unit (TSU) for the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Task Force on Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. The TSU will be located in IGES Tokyo Sustainability Forum (TSF).The IPBES Task Force on Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity and Ecosystem S

In 2023, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) produced a wide range of reports, events and web content. As a special feature at the start of 2024, we have compiled the most popular IGES content from the past year for the following categories: Top 10 Most Downloaded Publications, Top 5 Most Viewed Webpages, Top 5 Most Viewed IGES YouTube Videos, Most Liked Tweet and Most Attended Event. These rankings capture the environmental developments of 2023, and indicate some upcoming t

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), which serves as the secretariat of the Paris Agreement Article 6 Implementation Partnership (A6IP) Center, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), building on their common goals and objectives to implement and enhance the market mechanisms stipulated in Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.In order to fully harness the potential of Article 6 and international carbon markets, the ro

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is proud to announce the start of operations for the “Paris Agreement Article 6 Implementation Partnership (A6IP) Center”. The A6IP Center was established by the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (MOEJ) in response to an endorsement by this year’s G7 Ministers' Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment held in Sapporo in April.The A6IP Center, with IGES as its secretariat, aims to promote the early and steady establishment of “high integ

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will host the 15th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2023)

IGES will serve as the secretariat of the "Paris Agreement Article 6 Implementation Partnership Center" to be established

In 2022, IGES produced a wide range of reports, events and web content. We have compiled the most popular IGES content from the past year.

28 November 2022, Plenary Sessions (Hybrid)29 November – 5 December 2022, Thematic Tracks (Online)

24 November 2021, Plenary Sessions (Hybrid)25 November - 3 December 2021, Thematic Tracks (Online)

Through the “Platform for Redesign 2020”, IGES joins forces with Japan and the UNFCCC to unite the world toward building back better from COVID-19.

―The Plan is not consistent with the Paris Agreement―

IGES formulated its position paper "Implications of COVID-19 for the Environment and Sustainability".

Holding G20 Presidency, the Government of Japan initiated information-sharing, updates and outreach on marine plastic litter with the support of IGES.

Official launch of a new report “Mainstreaming the SDGs in Business: Actions by Companies and Organisations in Japan”

-All you need to know about locally-led transformation for SDGs-

Addressing climate change will require radical changes in lifestyles: new report by international consortium