The International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific (ISAP) is held annually to shareinformation and facilitate diverse discussions on sustainable development in Asia and thePacific, with the participation of front-line experts and diverse stakeholders from internationalorganisations, governments, business and NGOs. ISAP began in 2009 as an initiative of theInstitute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and has been organised in collaborationwith the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU‐IAS)(co-organiser since 2011), with cooperation from organisations such as United NationsEnvironment Programme (UNEP), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia andthe Pacific (UNESCAP), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Organisation for Economic Co‐operationand Development (OECD), National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), and many otherpartners. The Forum has been providing venues for up-to-date discussions with experts anddiverse stakeholders from international organisations, governments, business and NGOs andknowledge/information sharing with a wide range of practitioners. Based on the overall theme of ISAP2019 “Inclusive Transformation: Multi-stakeholderCollaboration Driving the World towards a Circulating and Ecological Economy”, focused oninclusive transition taking account of linkages between climate and SDGs, in particular social andenvironmental goals, deepening the main messages from the Special Report on 1.5 C degreesand HLPF 2019 which focused on climate change and other social related goals.
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) (Thu,) studied this question.