Shivering in the tropics: Southeast Asia faces “cooling crisis”

By Michael Taylor of Thomson Reuters KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Southeast Asia faces a “cooling crisis” as more and more people crank up inefficient air-conditioning to cope with rising temperatures and worsening air pollution, researchers said. More than 420 managers and experts from government agencies and multinational companies in Indonesia, Malaysia, […]

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First Urban LEDS II scoping mission in Lao PDR completed

Mr. Syamphone Sengchandala (rightmost), Deputy Director General of the Department of Climate Change, MONRE – Lao PDR receives ICLEI Southeast Asia and UN Habitat during the initial scoping visit for Urban LEDS II. City representatives from Savannakhet and Pakse in Lao PDR as well as high level official from the Ministry of Environment and Natural […]

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

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

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

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?

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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