About the Session:
A case of Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, will be held as a Special Session, showcasing the citizen – government collaboration in lake basin management. It will consist of several segments. They include introduction to a brief history of participatory lake basin management, to a new designated as MLGs, or Mother Lake Goals being a citizen driven pursuit toward meeting the Lake Biwa SDG goals, to environmental education at the grade school level, to voluntary action initiatives at the university level, as well as to some typical non-governmental programs and projects.