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Established by an initiative of the Japanese Government in 1998, IGES is a research institute that conducts pragmatic and innovative strategic policy research to support sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.
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allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.
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UNU-IAS will co-organize an international symposium on supporting recovery efforts on Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan following the 2024 Noto Earthquake.
This project captures the essence of these regional climate-related needs and has developed two set of guidelines designed to assist relevant agencies and sectors to plan and prepare for climate induced risks.
Climate change impacts on natural and human systems are increasing. Often affecting fragile economic, social and political systems, climate change is considered to be a serious ‘threat multiplier’.
In this paper, it has been made clear that regional cooperation has a significant role to play in addressing the transboundary impacts of climate change in Asia.
This report is an outcome of the research carried out in the second year of the APN-funded project on Assessing Community Risk Insurance Initiatives and Identifying Enabling Policy and Institutional Factors for Maximizing Climate Change adaptation
This policy brief identifies approaches that could help achieve better synergies in implementation of these frameworks on the ground via programmatic integration, collaboration, capacity and innovation.
This report looks at the use of insurance as a risk management tool in agrarian and poor communities in the Asia-Pacific region, highly vulnerable to climate change.
This report reviews the contributions of 37 countries, including Germany, Japan, Norway, the UK and the US, to the ‘Fast-Start Finance’ (FSF), the first step to providing climate finance at a scale that matched the urgency of the situation, over t