The Global Governance Research Division addresses complex global risks including climate change, conflict, and environmental degradation, drawing on cross-disciplinary perspectives, such as political science, development studies, and engineering. This division aims to be a research hub for sustainable development and security in the broadest sense, including not only military power but also food-, energy-, and economic security. To this end, it combines expertise in international, regional, and national governance with problem-solving techniques to offer theoretical and empirical policy analyses.
Research Units
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SDGs Collaborative Research
SDGs Collaborative Research Unit aims to become a hub and to focus research on SDGs at the University of Tokyo. -
Center for Global Commons (CGC)
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Security Studies Unit (SSU)
SSU has performed numerous activities, including hosting international joint research and international conferences, focusing in particular on relation between economy and security, the security structure of North-East Asia, the deepening the Japan-US alliance, the search for a way to enhance multilateral security cooperation, the strengthening of nuclear non-proliferation, and the formulation of a new concept of security. -
Governance for Sustainability
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Climate Change and Energy Transition
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Social-ecological System Sustainability
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Japan Model Intercomparison Platform (JMIP) for Sustainable Futures
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Future Earth
Future Earth is an international research programme for global sustainability. We coordinate research to generate new knowledge and solutions relating to our dynamic planet, global sustainable development and transformations to sustainability. -
Millennial Sustainability
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International Society for Sustainability Science (ISSS)
International Society for Sustainability Science is a platform for international knowledge-sharing to promote integration and cooperation among diverse academic fields for sustainable society. -
Risks in the Global Economy: Analysis and Policy
The Unit aims to propose policies to contain risks in the global economy, with special attention to Japan. A particular concern is the recent surge of protectionism worldwide, especially in advanced countries. -
AGS（Alliance for Global Sustainability)
AGS is a unique international partnership between four of the world’s leading science and technology universities – ETH Zurich, MIT, The University of Tokyo, Chalmers University of Technology – and their associated partners. -
Energy Sustainability Forum
Energy Sustainability Forum is an industrial consortium that IR3S inaugurated with Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K, which aims at designing long term energy visions and proposing practical measures and policies for stable and safe energy supply. -
Resilient society and economy
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Research Unit on Climate Adaptation, Disaster and Sustainable Development
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Climate Change Communication Research Unit