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Case study of MRV Pilot Testing LFG Methodology at Manggar Landfill Balikpapan City
Balikpapan City has the vision to be a leading, comfortable, and sustainable city in Indonesia. This vision is also associated with the city’s aspirations to pursue low emission development as an effort to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through several priority sectors, one of which is the waste management sector. The city’s sanitary landfill, locally […]
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Luzon LGUs convene to learn about the PH Government Energy Management Program
The Philippine Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with the European Union-supported Access to Sustainable Energy Programme (EU ASEP), ASEP Clean Energy Living Laboratories (ASEP-CELLs), ICLEI Southeast Asia (ICLEI SEAS), and the Ateneo School of Government (ASoG), recently organized another online pre-forum session on the Government Energy Management Program (GEMP), a government-wide program that aims […]
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ICLEI introduces 100% renewable energy transition toolkit to West Nusa Tenggara
in photo above: Rian van Staden from the Global 100% RE Platform emphasized the importance of knowing and identifying relevant natural and human resources before determining the 100% RE goal. Jakarta, Indonesia – ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Indonesia last 29 June 2021 hosted a virtual workshop introducing the 100% renewable energy (RE) toolkit to […]
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Leading Climate Action in Cities: How are Balikpapan City and Bogor City doing it?
The cities of Balikpapan and Bogor in Indonesia continue to commit to embed a low emission development approach in their five-year development planning and were supported through the Urban-LEDS II Project. This case study outlines how the process in formulating the Urban-LEDS II CAP—to accelerate the low emission development with a climate resilience focus embedded—adopted […]
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Apply to the EcoLogistics Community Challenge 2021!
The EcoLogistics Community, organized by ICLEI and Taoyuan City, is pleased to announce the EcoLogistics Challenge 2021 and is inviting local and regional authorities, start-ups and civil organizations to submit a short-term pilot project in transforming last-mile logistics by 15 August 2021. The EcoLogistics Community is seeking a small-scale project in last-mile logistics following one or more of […]
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Evaluating the Philippine Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in 2021
This article is a contribution from ASEP-CELLs. Two years after the Philippines officially transmitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) and officially committed the country to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 70% by 2030 — relative to its usual Business As Usual (BAU) scenario of 2020-2030 — the Duterte administration decided to […]
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One Indonesian Data for Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Development: Governance and Usefulness of Data
Data governance plays a key role in ensuring that high-quality and disaggregated data and information are available for various policy, program, and development needs. Currently, the Government of Indonesia is continuing the inter-sector data integration, not limited to spatial data through the national geospatial information network (Presidential Regulation 27/2014), but also other development data through […]
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Climate Financing Access Guidebook for Local Governments
Local governments play a pivotal role in the fight against climate change in which their fiscal capacity will be one of the criteria used by line ministries in providing and forwarding the available grants for this purpose. In order to map out fiscal capacity and improve local government fiscal governance, budget tagging is one of the […]
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Mayor of Makati, Abigail Binay, Joints the Board of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy
This article first appeared in Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. Brussels, Belgium (JULY 1,2021) – Today, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM) announced the appointment of Mayor Abigail Binay of Makati, Philippines to its Board of mayors and leaders. As mayor of Makati, Mayor Binay will represent Southeast Asia […]
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ICLEI formally hands over green building solutions, citizen pledge platform to Pasig City
in photo (from left) Head of Pasig City CENRO/CSWMO Mr. Allendri Angeles; Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto; ICLEI SEAS Regional Director Vic Aquitania; and Pasig City Councilor Editha Santiago signed the handover MOU for the Pasig EcoPledge Platform last 5 July 2021 at the Barangay Hall of Sta. Rosa, Pasig City. Pasig City, Philippines – […]
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