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  • ICLEI Indonesia, WWF-Indonesia, and APEKSI held workshop on Sustainable Urban Mobility Development

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 23, 2018

    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

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 22, 2018

    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

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 18, 2018

    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?

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 17, 2018

    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

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 11, 2018

    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

    Posted by ICLEI Southeast Asia on January 11, 2018

    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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