SEA cities join call for broader sub-national involvement to reach global targets

(SEA Delegation to ICLEI World Congress 2018 (L-R): Ms. Pamela Cabacungan, Project Officer for Mitigation, Ms. Karen May Crisostomo, Non-motorized Transport Specialist of the City Transport Development and Management Office (CTDMO) of Pasig City, Mr. Victorino Aquitania, Regional Director of ICLEI SEAS, Atty. Leticia Clemente, City Budget Officer in Baguio City and member of ICLEI […]

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Municipal partners from Germany, Philippines, and Vietnam present joint climate action program

Participants of the workshop discussed priority areas and thematic focus of their joint program of action. Five municipalities from Germany, Philippines, and Vietnam convened on 2-4 May 2018 at the Lichtenberg District of Berlin for the concluding international workshop of the 5th Phase of the Municipal Climate Partnerships project. The project has forged the following […]

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Parañaque City gears up to develop ambitious local climate action plan

The workshop gathered key stakeholders in Parañaque City to introduce the Ambitious City Promises project; scope existing policies, programs, projects, and activities (PPPAs); and map actors relevant to the project implementation. Local government officials and representatives from the community and private sector gathered at the Parañaque City Hall last 13 July 2018 for the Ambitious […]

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Pasig City emerges as Philippine National Capital of WWF’s One Planet City Challenge

Pasig City is named as the Philippine National Capital of the 2017-2018 edition of World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) One Planet City Challenge (OPCC). OPCC is a biennial challenge that aims to acknowledge cities’ efforts for developing innovative solutions to challenges related to transport, infrastructure, housing, and mobility. Some 133 cities representing 23 countries […]

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Killer heat the new normal in a world with climate change

This article first appeared on The Strait Times.  From Texas to Japan, the records keep tumbling. Scorching heat across swathes of the Northern Hemisphere has killed dozens of people, triggered wildfires and turned parts of normally green Britain a desert brown. In Greece, a wildfire east of the capital Athens killed at least 74 people, […]

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Bikes out, trees in: Hanoi tackles air pollution woes

HANOI (Reuters) – Famed for ancient pagodas, colonial architecture and delicious pho noodle soup, Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi has another, albeit dubious, distinction: air pollution. The city of 7.7 million, where pollution last year was four times higher than the World Health Organisation (WHO) considers acceptable, is one of several Asian cities battling emissions from […]

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