Tokyo Development Learning Center is furthering its collaborative efforts with its partners in order to capture local activities and events, upload content to our website, and to aid in the dissemination of expert knowledge and experience to Japan, the Asia Pacific region, and beyond. In this way, we hope to make the valuable lectures and materials more readily accessible to a broader range of people, everywhere.

On 26-27 June 2009, in Hayama, Japan, the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) organised the first International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP2009).

Under the main theme of “low-carbon development in Asia and the Pacific,” ISAP invited front-line experts and representatives from businesses, international organisations, governments and NGOs in Asia, Europe and the US to have open presentations and discussions. Raising hot issues such as low-carbon economy, biodiversity, green consumption, REDD**, biofuels, co-benefit approach and capacity development, the participants conducted discussions based on IGES’s latest research results to explore the solutions together with the audience.
      —excerpt from ISAP2009, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)) website

** REDD: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries

Click here to view Opening Session streaming online.