OGIHARA, Akira

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4th Collaborative Assessment Network Meeting UNEP
RRC. AP Thailand 18-19 November 2003
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies

• OGIHARA, Akira
• Research Fellow
• Long-term Perspective Policy Integration Project

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Milestone

• 1997 Apr. Preparatory Organization for IGES
• 1997 Dec. Adoption of the Charter of IGES
• 1998 Mar. Establishment of IGES as a non profit
  organization
• 1998 Apr. Start of the First Research Phase
• 1999 Oct. Establishment of Kitakyushu Office
• 2001 Jun. Establishment of Kansai Research
  Center
• 2001 Apr. Start of the Second Research Phase
• 2003 May Establishment of Bangkok Office

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Profile of IGES
President Prof. Akio Morishima Number of
Employee 116 in total Research staff 69 (39
full-time staff, 30 part-time) Secretariat
staff 47 (39 full-time staff, 8 part-time) as
of 31 March 2003
Tokyo Office
Kansai Research Center
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Shonan Village (HQ)
Kitakyushu Office
Bangkok Office
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Institutional Framework
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Four Functions
Capacity Building
Information Outreach
Strategic Research
Multi-stakeholder Dialogue
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Research Approach

• Interdisciplinary approach Legal, Economic,
  Political, Social and Other Issues Associated
  with Environmental Problems
• International approach in collaboration with a
  number of institutes in the Asia-Pacific region,
  as well as with governments and international
  organizations such as UNEP, ESCAP and ADB.

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Climate Policy

• proposes both international and domestic policy
  measures, synchronizing with development of
  international negotiations
• implements a capacity building programme for CDM
  in Asian countries, called Integrated Capacity
  Strengthening for Clean Development Mechanism
  (ICS-CDM) from October 2003.

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Urban Environmental Management

• develops useful ideas and models to serve as
  guidelines for urban environmental management
  policies in the AP region
• provides relevant research for policymakers
  through the following three research themes
• i) study on the process dynamics of urban
  environmental evolution
• ii) study on urban policy integration of energy
  related environmental issues in Asian
  mega-cities and
• iii) support for implementation of the Kitakyushu
  Initiative for a Clean Environment.

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Business and the Environment

• aims at integrating environmental management and
  business management systems towards a sustainable
  development focusing on analysis and evaluation
  of environmental management systems LCA
• strengthen ties with the Kansai and AP regions
  distributing its research results widely along
  with development of information disclosure system

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Forest Conservation

• aims to develop feasible strategies for a
  sustainable participatory forest management, and
  to develop "Village Action Guidelines," "National
  Policy Recommendations," and "Local Policy
  Guidelines" in local languages as well as in
  English
• strives to carry out researches with a global
  perspective based upon the local realities

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Environmental Education

• designs policy proposals focusing on the
  following three research topics
• i) development of environmental education
  materials,
• ii) human resource development, and
• iii) development of innovative eco-tourism
  education models in the AP region.
• builds up a framework of IGES as a hub of
  environmental education in the AP region.

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Capacity Building Program

• offers a wide variety of opportunities for
  learning on sustainable development issues
  through its e-Learning system.
• provides
• trainings that bridge between policy-research and
  policy-implementation, in collaboration with
  Japanese and international partners (UNEP, UNU,
  UNFCC, IPCC/TSU and UNDP)
• research which results in innovative training
  methodologies and
• internship that strengthens leadership capacities
  of LEAD

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Long-Term Perspective and Policy Integration

• cross-sectoral research for SD in AP region, in
  collaboration with other IGES projects and
  external partners (TEI, TERI and ERI etc).
• Research on Innovative and Strategic Policy
  Options (RISPO)/ Asia-Pacific Environmental
  Innovation Strategy Project (APEIS)
• e.g. Good practices inventory and Strategic
  Policy Options

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Prototype Good Practices Inventory

• APEIS Database Website launched in June 2003
• 47 good practices are now available

http//iges.or.jp/APEIS/RISPO
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Researches/activities contributing to
international policy dialogue

• Asia- Pacific Forum for Environment and
  Development (APFED)
• Third World Water Forum
• Registered as a Portfolio of Water Actions
  (March 2003)
• WSSD
• Side event Innovation from the Asia-Pacific
  toward Sustainable Development (August 2002)
• COP8
• Side event Asia-Pacific Forum for Collaborative
  Modeling of Climate Policy Assessment (October
  2002)

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Researches/activities contributing to
Sub-regional policy dialogue

• Strategy paper for WSSD for NEA
• Post WSSD priority paper for NEA
• SOE paper for NEA
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA)
• Regional MA in western China
• GEF Project
• National Performance Assessment and Sub-regional
  Strategic Environment Framework (SEF II) in the
  GMS by ADB, UNEP, NIES and IGES
• APN (is going to be a part of IGES)
• Research Networking and capacity building

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Project office in Bangkok

• aims at strengthening its outreach in AP region.
• engages in research activities, enhancing
  partnership with regional and international
  organizations within AP region.
• Main Projects being conducted
• National Performance Assessment and Sub-regional
  Strategic Environment Framework (SEF II) in the
  Greater Mekong Sub-region
• Asia-Pacific Environmental Innovation Strategy
  (APEIS)/Research on Innovative and Strategic
  Policy Options (RISPO)
• etc.

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Thank for your attention!!

• IGES

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Signatory International Organizations

• United Nations Centre for Regional
  Development, UNCRD
• United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP
• United Nations Institute for Training and
  Research, UNITAR
• United Nations University Institute of Advanced
  Studies, UNU / IAS etc.

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Time Sequence

• 1997 Preparation Phase
• 1998 Inauguration Phase

19982000 1st Phase
20012003 2nd Phase undergo
20042006 3rd Phase tbd
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Research Strategy for the 2nd Phase Activities (2)

• Coordination of project members by project
  managers
• Participation of researchers in discussion
  meetings to improve their research skills and to
  exchange information and knowledge acquired
  during their research.
• Annual review of project activities at an open
  review meeting in IGES.

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Research Strategy for the 2nd Phase Activities (1)

• Establishment of LTP ( Long-term Perspectives and
  Policy Integration) project to integrate all
  research products in and outside IGES.
• Promotion of collaboration among the project
  teams.
• Participation of each project member in
  activities of LTP and the capacity building
  programs.
• Joint research activities among deferent project
  members.