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SEA cities tackle how to decarbonize buildings in the region
Buildings represent about 37% of global energy use and energy-related CO2 emissions. In ASEAN, the building sector accounts for 23% of the region’s energy consumption and energy-related CO2 emissions (equivalent to 0.4 gigatonnes of CO2). The ASEAN Center for Energy reported that this sector’s energy use is still expected to grow by around 60% by 2030 and […]
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Driving finance to urban adaptation: City networks call for COP 27
This document is a joint effort between the C40 City Climate Leadership Group and members of the GCoM Finance Technical Working Group, including the Cities Climate Finance Alliance (CCFLA), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) in […]
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ICLEI South Asia releases compendium on Nature-based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience
This compendium will be useful for governments at all levels and is intended to support key actors and institutions to plan, implement, replicate and upscale nature-based solutions. The learnings from each case study detailed in the compendium will also be helpful for practitioners, NGOs, civil society and academics to better understand how to implement NbS […]
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Indonesian cities learn how to accelerate e-bus transition
(in photo above) Participants in the session rode an e-bus around Jakarta. The TUMI E-Bus Mission City Network on 17-19 October 2022 provided peer-to-peer exchange and capacity building to the Indonesian cities of Bandung, Bogor, Denpasar, Medan, Palembang, Pekanbaru, and Semarang in order to accelerate the cities’ transition to electric buses. Organized by ICLEI Indonesia […]
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Del Carmen, PH calls for climate action following extreme weather events
WATCH: Alfredo Coro II, Mayor of the Municipality of Del Carmen in the Philippines, shares the devastating impact of Super Typhoon Rai last December 2021 and how climate change is leaving small island municipalities more and more vulnerable to extreme weather events. He calls on world leaders to undertake and accelerate significant #ClimateAction.
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24 Indonesian cities tackle how to accelerate climate action
24 cities and regencies in Indonesia on 10-11 October 2022 attended the two-day culmination workshop of the 2021-2022 World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) One Planet City Challenge in Jakarta, discussing the role of local governments in supporting the country’s low carbon development goals and exchanging their best climate action practices. The dialogue on “Increasing […]
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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] S²Cities launches call for global research partner
UPDATE: the deadline has been extended until 12 January 2023. The Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB) on behalf of S²Cities is looking for a Global Research Partner to participate in a hands-on programme on youth participation in urban planning for urban safety and wellbeing in secondary cities of the Global South. Researchers of urban studies are invited to submit expressions of interest to support […]
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Makati, PH is Southeast Asia’s first resilience hub
The Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) initiative of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) on 27 September 2022 has named Makati City as the Philippines’ and Southeast Asia’s very first Resilience Hub. The UNDRR defines resilience hubs as local governments or authorities which have political and technical commitment to address climate and disaster […]
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S²Cities launches call for PH Youth Innovation and Capacity Building Grantee
The Global Infrastructure Basel Foundation (GIB), on behalf of the Safe and Sound Cities Programme (S²Cities), is looking for new local partners to lead the implementation of a hands-on programme on youth participation in urban planning for urban safety and wellbeing in Baguio City, Philippines. Click HERE for more details.
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PH stakeholders discuss how the circular economy can help achieve country’s climate targets
The Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources Climate Change Service (DENR-CCS), the University of the Philippines – Los Baños (UPLB), GIZ International Services, and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Southeast Asia on 20 October 2022 held a webinar to discuss fundamental circular economy (CE) policies, frameworks, best practices, and principles applicable in the […]
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