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SAVE THE DATE: Seoul Mayor’s Forum on Climate Change and International Forum on Air Quality Improvement 2021
The city of Seoul, South Korea will virtually host the “Seoul Mayor’s Forum on Climate Change 2021” and the “International Forum on Air Quality Improvement 2021” from October 26 to 29, 2021. The fora will serve as an opportunity for cities to share their policy efforts to tackle climate change and air pollution in the midst of a […]
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Cauayan City, PH demonstrates energy efficiency and conservation experience
Quezon City, Philippines – The local government unit of Cauayan City—considered as one of the “First Smarter Cities in the Philippines”—is serving as a success story of how the country’s cities can integrate energy efficiency and conservation (EEC) into their development plans. Sharing the city’s EEC initiatives last 15 July 2021 during the Luzon Energy […]
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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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