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Short-Term Consultancy: Formulation of Sampling Strategy and Conduct of Activity Data Collection as Input to the Community-Level Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Inventory of Pasig City
Background The Ambitious City Promises (ACP) is a 3.5-year regional project which aims to support selected large cities in Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam to establish strong greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction commitments, local climate action plans directed by concrete targets, enhanced multi-stakeholder engagement and integrated strategies. The ACP project has the overall objective of contributing […]
Continue readingThe application process to the 2019 Ashden Awards is now open!
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?
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
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
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
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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