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  • The application process to the 2019 Ashden Awards is now open!

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on October 26, 2018

    Application to the 2019 Ashden Awards is now open! Cities can apply for the following categories: Sustainable Cities and Buildings: Organisations working in the built environment to rapidly decarbonise urban buildings and districts, including retrofitting existing buildings, as well as the design and construction of new buildings.  Sustainable Mobility: Innovative enterprises or programmes that are improving access […]

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  • As Bangkok sinks, could this anti-flood park be the answer?

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on October 25, 2018

    Bangkok is sinking – fast. As urban development continues unabated, this city of more than 10 million people is getting lower by 2cm a year, according to Greenpeace estimates. Meanwhile, the surface of the Gulf of Thailand is rising by 4mm a year – above the global average. With the Thai capital currently approximately 1.5 metres […]

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  • Climate forum considers innovative finance, technology

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on October 23, 2018

    This article first appeared on SciDev.net. A regional forum on climate change adaptation, co-hosted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), provided an opportunity to discuss innovative technology and financing to build resilience to disasters and climate adversities. Participants of the 6th Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum (17—19 October) discussed, for example, the merits and demerits of using improved hydraulic rams or hydrams, […]

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  • Philippine resort city chooses ‘morally correct’ low-carbon path

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on October 17, 2018

    This story was first published on the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, women’s rights, trafficking, property rights, climate change, and resilience.  When Theresa Walgraeve and her husband set up their 15-room resort in Puerto Princesa, a city on the Philippine island of Palawan, they worried about mosquitoes and monsoon damp […]

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  • Climate Change Is Testing Asia’s Megacities

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on October 15, 2018

    The scenes captured in Hong Kong and other cities along China’s southern coast during Typhoon Mangkhut in mid-September were almost apocalyptic: trees being uprooted, towers swaying back and forth as their windows shattered, ocean waves barreling into buildings, roadways turned into rivers. Mangkhut’s highest wind speed clocked in at 180 miles per hour—the strongest storm […]

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  • IPCC climate change report: What does it mean and how will it affect our lives?

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on October 11, 2018

    Scientists have released what can be seen as the most urgent and far-reaching call yet for world governments to cut their greenhouse gas emissions and stop global warming. They warn of dying corals, melting sea ice and rising sea levels. These effects are inevitable with any level of global warming, but the conclusion of the report is […]

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