Global Issues & ODA

(1) Marine Pollution

• Marine Plastic Litter and Waste Management
• NOWPAP (Northwest Pacific Action Plan)

(2) Chemicals and Hazardous Waste

• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal
• Minamata Convention on Mercury

(3) Protection of the Ozone Layer

• Vienna Convention, Montreal Protocol

(4) Biodiversity

• Convention on Biological Diversity
  • The 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture (Will be held in October 2010)
• Nagoya Protocol
• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

(5) Wildlife

• CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora)
• Illegal Wildlife Trade
  • State Minister for Foreign Affairs Toshiko ABE's attendance at the fourth International Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade (October 11, 2018)
  • Capacity-Building Workshop in relation to Illegal Wildlife Trade in Malaysia (Japan-UK Collaboration Project)
  • Assistance to Uganda in Developing a Strategic Anti-Poaching Outpost for Elephants (April 12, 2019 )
• Japan's Tightened Regulations on Ivory Transactions
• Ramsar Convention
• IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources)

(6) Forests and Desertification

• In the UN
• ITTO (International Tropical Timber Organization)
  • Meeting between Mr. HAYASHI Yoshimasa, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Ms. Sheam Satkuru, Executive Director of ITTO (August 1, 2022)
  • Meeting between Dr. Toshiko Abe, State Minister for Foreign Affairs and Dr. Gerhard Dieterle, Executive Director of ITTO (May 23, 2019)
• Illegal Logging
• Asia Forest Partnership
• UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification)

(7) Acid Rain

• EANET (Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia)

(8) The Antarctic Treaty

• Antarctic Treaty and Environmmental Protocol

(9) Sustainable Development

• World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)

(10) 3R Initiative

(11) Water

• Chair's Summary of the Follow-up Conference of the International Year of Sanitation, Tokyo Action Proposal following IYS (TAP-IYS) (January 27, 2010) (PDF)
• G8 Experts Group Meeting on Water and Sanitation (November 2008)
• Side-Event on Water and Sanitation "Water and Sanitation for All" (September 2008)
  • Statements by the Co-organisers "Water and Sanitation for All" (September 24, 2008) (PDF)
  • Statement by H.E. Ms. Yoriko Kawaguchi, Special Envoy of the Government of Japan (September 24, 2008)
• World Water Forum
• The Dushanbe International Fresh Water Forum

(12) United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD)

• (1) UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme)
• (2) IETC (International Environmental Technology Centre)
• (3) GEF (Global Environment Facility)

• United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) (June 2012)
• Statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan on the Election of the Next Chief Executive Officer of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) (June 2012)
• High-Level International Conference on Large-Scale Natural Disasters (March 2012)
• Japan's Initiatives to Cope with Global Environmental Problems (Pamphlet) (PDF)