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[Event Report] Arctic Connections 2025 and the Italy-Japan Seminar on Arctic Cooperation
From 31 March to 3 April 2025, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) took part in a series of high-profile Arctic-themed events in Italy, affirming the Foundation's growing leadership in advancing dialogue, scientific collaboration, and multilateral diplomacy in the polar regions.
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[Event Report] Workshop on "Review of the Arctic Governance by East-Asian Perspective"
On February 18, 2025, Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation participated in the 39th International Symposium on the Okhotsk Sea & Polar Oceans (hereafter referred to as Mombetsu Symposium), hosted by Mombetsu City, and held a workshop titled "Review of the Arctic Governance by East-Asian Perspective."
Call for Abstracts: Second Inter-Polar Conference (IPC 2025)
Jointly organized by OPRI-SPF, the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland, and ICIMOD, in collaboration with the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and the UArctic Law Thematic Network, IPC 2025 supports the objectives of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation (IYGP 2025) and the UN Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences (2025–2035).
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[Event Report] OPRI/SPF hosted Japan-China Marine Science Cooperation Workshop in Tokyo
On December 25, 2024, the Ocean Policy Research Institute of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (OPRI/SPF), in collaboration with the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, China (FIO), and the China Institute for Marine Affairs, Ministry of Natural Resources, China (CIMA), hosted the Japan-China Marine Science Cooperation Workshop in Tokyo.
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[Event Report] Interview Videos: SPF at CBD/COP16, Cali, Colombia
SPF was on the ground at the 16th United Nations Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD/COP16) in Cali, Colombia. We had the privilege of engaging in insightful conversations with our partners and stakeholders throughout the event. Be sure to check out our interviews, and a big thank you to everyone who joined us and followed along!
OPRI participates as the lead partner of the Ocean Pavillion at COP29
At COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan from November 11th to 22nd, 2024, Ocean Policy Research Institute (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation will be the lead partner of the Ocean Pavilion which will be co-hosted by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and other organizations.
Ocean Shot: Second Call for Applications
The increasing importance of human knowledge of the ocean invites more focus on applied and practical research. However, we are just beginning to understand the ocean, which could be called the last frontier for discovery. Ocean Shot will provide large-scale support for research leading to discoveries from two perspectives.