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  • Global Climate City Challenge

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 31, 2019

    The Global Climate City Challenge is a joint initiative of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM), representing over 9,000 cities from six continents, to provide technical assistance that helps prepare and fast-track financing of urban climate action projects. The GCoM and the EIB collaborate on this Challenge with global and local […]

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  • Google to purchase 10MW of solar power in Taiwan, its first in Asia

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 30, 2019

    This article first appeared on Data Center Dynamics.  Google has signed a deal to buy the output of a 10MW solar array in Tainan City, Taiwan. It’s Google’s first renewable energy contract in Asia, and the Taiwanese government has changed energy laws to allow it to proceed. Google’s data center at Changhua County, Taiwan, was […]

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  • 1 million USD total prize offered for innovative climate change responses

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 28, 2019

    This article first appeared on Vietnam Plus.  HCM City (VNA) – Organisations and individuals with creative ideas that can help Vietnam respond and adapt to the impacts of climate change may win the chance to access aid worth 75,000 USD for each project. The information was announced at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on […]

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  • Can Asia unlock the capital needed to tackle climate change?

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 28, 2019

    This article first appeared on Eco-Business.  Can Asia unleash the capital needed to avoid dangerous climate change? That was the main topic of discussion at the Unlocking Capital for Sustainability event in Singapore on Tuesday, which was held four months after a report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the world has about a decade […]

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  • Call for Nominations: The Equator Prize 2019

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 24, 2019

    The Equator Initiative is a United Nations-led partnership that brings together governments, civil society, grassroots organizations, and businesses to foster resilient communities by recognizing and advancing local nature-based solutions for sustainable development. The Equator Initiative creates opportunities and platforms to share knowledge and good practices, develops capacities of local communities and indigenous peoples, informs policy through convening […]

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  • World Bank Group arm IFC sees US$20 trillion worth of green investment opportunities in India, Asia-Pacific

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 21, 2019

    This article first appeared on South China Morning Post.  International Finance Corporation (IFC), a sister organization of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group, is set on climate-related investments, with US$20 trillion worth of opportunities in Asia-Pacific and India by 2030. According to the IFC, 60 percent of the area expected to […]

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