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Stakeholders of IGES-led workshop position climate change adaptation as an “urgent, cross-cutting issue”
Manila, Philippines: The third installation of the Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Planning in the Asia-Pacific Region workshop series has been successfully held in Discovery Suites, Ortigas, Pasig City on January 31- February 1, 2018. Organized by the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) with support from Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ) […]
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Hanoi enjoyed just 38 days of clean air in 2017 -report
By: Thomson Reuters KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi, enjoyed little more than one month of clean air last year as pollution levels rose to match China’s smog-prone capital, Beijing, preliminary findings of a new report showed. Annual average air pollution in Hanoi in 2017 was also four times higher […]
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Shivering in the tropics: Southeast Asia faces “cooling crisis”
By Michael Taylor of Thomson Reuters KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Southeast Asia faces a “cooling crisis” as more and more people crank up inefficient air-conditioning to cope with rising temperatures and worsening air pollution, researchers said. More than 420 managers and experts from government agencies and multinational companies in Indonesia, Malaysia, […]
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First Urban LEDS II scoping mission in Lao PDR completed
Mr. Syamphone Sengchandala (rightmost), Deputy Director General of the Department of Climate Change, MONRE – Lao PDR receives ICLEI Southeast Asia and UN Habitat during the initial scoping visit for Urban LEDS II. City representatives from Savannakhet and Pakse in Lao PDR as well as high level official from the Ministry of Environment and Natural […]
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ICLEI Indonesia, WWF-Indonesia, and APEKSI held workshop on Sustainable Urban Mobility Development
Yayasan ICLEI Indonesia, in cooperation with World Wildlife Fund and Association of Indonesian Municipalities (APEKSI), successfully held the Sustainable Urban Mobility: Realizing Low Emission Urban Development last December 14, 2017, in Jakarta, Indonesia. The workshop, which brought forth the Declaration of Agreement on Sustainable Urban Mobility Development, aimed to scale up discussions on sustainable urban […]
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Local governments, CSOs, and NGOs discuss strategies for NDC achievement in Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia: Yayasan ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Indonesia, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MoEF) organized the National Dialog: Strategic Role of Local Governments and Civil Societies on Climate Change Agenda in Urban Area. The event, attended by approximately 100 representatives from the national and local governments, communities, non-government organizations (NGO), […]
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Indonesian parliament pushes to pass palm oil legislation this year
By: Eco-business.com Lawmakers in Indonesia are adamant about passing new legislation on the palm oil industry this year, amid concerns from activists and even the executive branch of government. Environmental groups warn that the bill, in its current form, favors large corporations at the expense of smallholders and rural and indigenous communities. A key criticism is that […]
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As Philippine coastal village sinks, who’s paying for the damage?
By: Eco-Business.com Barangay Alaska is a coastal village in Aringay, La Union, a bucolic municipality 244 kilometres north of Manila. In this village, 306 families are fighting to protect their homes, and their existence as a people, from vanishing into the sea. As of 2010, Alaska had a land area of 237 hectares in its […]
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Forests and Landscapes in Indonesia
By: WRI INDONESIA Data-driven analysis to support government and civil society actions for effective and equitable land-use in Indonesia. This project includes work formerly known as Project POTICO. Indonesia is the world’s fifth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, mainly due to the conversion of its forests and carbon-rich peatlands. These shifts in land use have […]
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Indonesia plants bamboo to fight climate change
By: The Jakarta Post Cultivating bamboo could help Indonesia mitigate the impacts of climate change, an Indonesian environmental scientist said during a side event of the United Nations climate conference in Bonn, Germany. At the event, Arief Rabik, founder of the Bambu Lestari Foundation, said planting bamboo was a very effective way to rehabilitate […]
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