2024/12/4
2025/1/9 xSDG Laboratory and the United Nations University will hold a symposium “Towards the SDGs and Beyond: How Can Global Digital Society Accelerate Transformations?” at the United Nations University Headquarters. English/Japanese simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
→ Pre-registration is required
- xSDG Consrotium “Working
group on COVID-19 and the SDGs” “Twelve key strategies to achieve the SDGs based on the
COVID-19 experience”, June 2021
- "Japan's SDGs White
Paper 2020-2021"（editor: SDGs白書編集委員会）, May 2021（in Japanese）
- xSDG Consortium “Working group
on the COVID-19 and the SDGs”「コロナの経験を踏まえたSDGs達成へのカギとなる12の⽅策」、March 2021（in Japanese）
Refer here
for the other outcomes so far
2024/7/19
Kanie appeared as a panelist at the HPLF2024“Science Day”
→ Summary report, 9 July 2024/ IInternational Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
2024/7/19
xSDG Lab, NIES and IGES held a HLPF side event: "Exploring synergies and trade-offs for transformations to the SDGs and beyond" in New York on July 10th.
→ YouTube / International Peace Institute
2024/6/28
During the HLPF in July, we will hold a side event: "Exploring synergies and trade-offs for transformations to the SDGs and beyond" in New York on July 10th (Host: xSDG Lab, NIES, IGES).
2024/2/6
Norichika Kanie participated in the Indo-Pacific Leadership program in Honolulu (1/28-2/2) as an advisor.
→ X（Twitter）/ EastWestCenter
2024/1/29
2024/03/01 14:00-17:00 xSDG Lab., and the United Nations University will host a symposium on ‘Accelerating Transformative Actions: The Role of the Private Sector in Sustainable Development’ at the U Thant Hall, United Nations University Headquarters. The event will be held in English and Japanese with simultaneous interpretation of each language.
Please register for the event here.
2023/12/22
Norichika Kanie was interviewed by Newsweek Japan. (in Japanese)
→①、→②
2023/11/29
Focal Point on the Sustainable Development Goals in Japan was published in the online version of Nature on 22 November 2023.
2023/11/27
Norichika Kanie was interviewed by Well-being Initiative. (in Japanese)
2023/9/22
Rescuing SDGs for people and planet, through increased ambition (Japanese language) - SDG Media Zone at the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly
2023/9/22
An Articles related to GSDR were published in Nature.
2023/9/20
Norichika Kanie was interviewed by The Mainichi. (in Japanese)
2023/9/19
Science for accelerating transformations to achieve the SDGs (Japanese language) - SDG Media Zone at the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly
2023/9/15
Kanie will be appearing in a session at The SDG Media Zone.
→ Programme/SDG Media Zone - UNGA78
2023/9/15
JAL, for which Norichika Kanie serves as a sustainability advisor, launched the "Sustainable Challenge Flight" on September 14.
→ Aviation Wire
→ NHK NEWS WEB
2023/9/14
An article "What Scientists need to do to accelerate progress on the SDGs" was published in Nature.
2023/9/13
The Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) 2023 was launched.
2023/9/8
An interview video of Kanie as the author of GSDR 2023 was published in the UN DESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) newsletter "UN DESA Voice September 2023".
2023/9/7
Kanie will be appearing in a dialogue session held at FASHION WORLD TOKYO on October 18.
2023/9/4
Norichika Kanie was interviewed by The Mainichi, editorial 3/Sep/2023 (in Japanese)
2023/8/8
2023/7/15:Norichika Kanie participated in group discussion on “Activating synergies in the six entry points put forward by the Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR)”, in the special event at the High-Level Political Forum 2023 “Science Day”as a coordinator.
2023/7/14:Norichika Kanie made a presentation “Key messages of the GlobalSustainable Development Report 2023”, in the side event at the High-Level Political Forum 2023 “Youth engagement for systemic transformation at the SDG-Summit: Implementing the Global Sustainable Development Report call to action”.
2023/7/13:Norichika Kanie made a presentation “Transforming Cities into Smart City – Accelerating integrated actions towads achieving the SDGs”, in the side event at the High-Level Political Forum 2023 “Towards Safe, Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Cities under the 203 Agenda”.
2023/7/12:Norichika Kanie appeared at the 6th plenary session of the High-Level Political Forum 2023 “SDGs in focus: SDG 9 and interlinkages with other SDGs – Industry, innovation and infrastructure”as a panelist.
→ Program(pp.15-17), → VOD
2023/8/3
JAL, for which Norichika Kanie serves as a sustainability advisor, has arranged Sustainable Challenge flight during the UN SDG Summit
2023/7/16
Norichika Kanie will be participating in the Special event at the 2023 HLPF; Fourth Global Conference on Strengthening Synergies Between the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – Parallel session II ‘Climate action as an avenue for social and economic change – how to get all stakeholders on board?’
2023/7/13-14
Norichika Kanie will be appearing in multiple sessions at the Nikkei SDGs Festival in New Yor
2023/7/6
Norichika Kanie previewed the main findings of the GSDR 2023 at the webinar hosted by the SDG Lab, Cepei, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) ahead of the HLPF sessions starting from 10-20 July
2023/7/3
xSDG Lab., in collaboration with the Daiichi-Life Insurance Company, have created a SDGs Guideline for Small and Medium sized Enterprises, which is now available for viewing/use. Please refer to the following websites for details (available only in Japanese)
2023/4/10Norichika Kanie will be appearing as a reference person at the ‘Research Committee on
Natural Resources and Energy, Sustainable Society’ at the House of Councillors, The National Diet of
Japan
For the webcast, please visit https://www.webtv.sangiin.go.jp/webtv/index.php
2022/9/5 Keio University SDGs Conference -2022 Summer Camp- was held on August 31st.（ in Japanese）
2022/8/29 An interview with Norichika Kanie was published on the Nikkei BizGate.（in Japanese）
2022/2/17 The xSDG Consortium 2022 Research Proposal released.（in Japanese）
2022/3/4 The Japan SDGs Action Forum will be held （March 29th 2022）. （In Japanese）
2022/2/25 The report about SDGs was released by Shizuoka City.（in Japanese）
2022/1/31 The interview of Norichika Kanie has been released by the Anderson Mori & Tomotsunehas.（in Japanese）
2021/11/24 The annual report "SDSN Networks in Action 2021" was published by the SDSN
Global.
- SDSN Networks
in Action 2021, SDSN Japan, pp.62-63, November 2021
- SDSN Networks in Action 2021, SDSN Japan, November 24th on 2021
2021/11/16 The result of the contest "SDGsクリエイティブアイデアコンテスト2021" announcement.（In Japanese）
2021/10/28 Published survey results on the 2021 japanese general election and SDGs （in Japanese）
2021/9/28 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) Call for Inputs
One of the key dimensions of the SDGs lies in the innovation of various efforts by different entities through decentralized coordination of autonomy. Through “Crossing” various activities, such as efforts by private and public sectors, consumption and investments, IoT, with the SDGs, holds great potential in realizing true sustainable growth; hence “xSDG (cross SDG)”. The xSDG Laboratoy aims to address and realize diverse social problem solving through the angle of the SDGs, and to do so conduct research in a much broader solution based research methods that go beyond academic research, to make and cumulate the best practices of the SDGs.
(Reference) What are the characteristics of the SDGs? How they will be handled and evolved in the
future? What governments, companies and local governments are doing in relation to the
SDGs? What is expected for us individuals in realizing the SDGs? – all these questions
will be answered!
What are the SDGs?
What is the 2030 Agenda?
SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) 17 goals 169 targets indicators
Secretariat Manager
xSDG Laboratory, Keio Research Institute at SFC
Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus
5322 Endo, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa, 252-0882 Japan
Email: xsdg[at]sfc.keio.ac.jp