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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Safe and Sound Cities (S²Cities) Year Two now open for SEA city applicants
Now on its second year, the Safe and Sound Cities (S²Cities) program is currently looking to add more local governments to its roster of participating cities. This new call for participants builds upon its 2021 pilot implementation in Envigado, Colombia, and Bandung, Indonesia. The S²Cities Program aims to improve young people’s safety and wellbeing in urban environments, […]
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Baguio, PH hailed as one of country’s most bike-friendly cities
Baguio City in the Philippines earlier this year was awarded as one of the country’s most bike-friendly towns. Advocating for shared roads, Baguio has allocated additional, significant funding to establish bike lanes along four major thoroughfares. Read about the award HERE.
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Southeast Asian cities support global call for undertaking sustainability together
(in photo above, from left) Some of the Southeast Asian representatives present for the 2021-2022 ICLEI World Congress: The Malmö Summit. Rozaidi Mahat, Head of Sustainability of Hang Tuah Jaya Municipal Council, Malaysia; Leticia Clemente, Budget Officer of Baguio City, Philippines; Trinnawat Suwanprik, Low Carbon Growth Local Coordinator for Chiang Mai, Thailand; Donna Tabangin, Planning […]
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7 Indonesian cities take part in local launch of the TUMI E-Bus Mission City Network
“There is a need for the support of cities and the collaboration of various parties in achieving 100% electricity-based urban mass transportation in Indonesia by 2045.” Mr. Suharto, the Indonesia Ministry of Transportation’s Director of Road Transport, emphasized the need for this multilevel, multi-stakeholder approach to the deployment of electric buses during the TUMI E-Bus […]
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Asia LEDS Partnership to hold webinars on smart grid tech, weather information apps
The Asia LEDS Partnership (ALP) will be holding webinars on smart grid technology applications and weather information application service in green energy operations. Listen to the experiences from the Chinese Taipei Energy Bureau on their #smartmeter application to reduce consumer electricity consumption and improve the efficiency of energy utilization. This webinar will be held on […]
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SEA lacking climate change awareness, knowledge—Yale report
The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication has released a new report describing the climate change beliefs, attitudes, policy preferences, and behaviors among Facebook users in 110 countries, territories, and geographic groups. Conducted in partnership with Data for Good at Meta, the report includes responses from over 100,000 Facebook monthly active users ages 18 and above […]
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Dipolog is Philippine winner of WWF’s 2021-2022 One Planet City Challenge
Dipolog City, a 3rd-class component city in Zamboanga del Norte Province, is the Philippine Winner of the World Wide Fund For Nature’s 2021-2022 One Planet City Challenge. Photo shows the Pagsalabuk Circle or the Dipolog Rotunda, a symbol of diverse culture representing the Muslim, Subanen, and Christian people of the city. (Photo from the Dipolog […]
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Baguio City, PH starts transition towards a circular economy
(in photo above) ICLEI SEAS and Baguio City technical staff from the Planning, Environment, Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, Engineering, and General Service departments last 30 March 2022 during the Circular Economy Workshop. According to the Circle Economy’s Circularity Gap Report, over 100-billion tonnes of materials are consumed annually in the world’s current “take-make-waste” linear economy, […]
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[CLOSED] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Communications Interns for ICLEI SEAS
The ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Southeast Asia Secretariat is currently looking for a Communications Intern (CI). The CI will be part of ICLEI SEAS and will be involved in internal and external communications work, including knowledge management, development and production of communication materials, member and stakeholder engagement, and media engagement, among other communications roles. […]
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DKI Jakarta hailed as ‘21-’22 Indonesia OPCC winner
DKI Jakarta is now a four-time national winner of the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) One Planet City Challenge (OPCC) after being selected as the Indonesian champion of the competition’s 2021-2022 run. Representatives from the winning city, finalists Probolinggo City and Balikpapan City, and 21 other participating local governments were present for the awarding […]
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