Community mapping to gather grassroots data for street walkability improvements: Why it matters for cities and urban mobility

Ariane Joyce Kekim (right), one of the SPARK Project volunteers during the walkability assessments using the Walkability app in August 2025, interviews a pedestrian about the walkability of Doña Julia Vargas Avenue. Photo by Jameela Antoniette Mendoza (An abridged version of this write-up was published at the CityTalk blog, titled “Rate this sidewalk: How community […]

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La Union, Philippines charts path for climate action with provincial greenhouse gas inventory

(in photo above) Participants of the La Union Province Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report presentation. ICLEI Southeast Asia formally presented the results of La Union Province’s community-level greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory in a multi-stakeholder culmination activity held on 21 April 2025. The event brought together representatives from the provincial and 20 municipal governments in La Union, […]

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LGUs in the Philippines begin leadership training in socially inclusive resilience

Fellows of the Socially Inclusive Resilience Leadership Program in the Philippines under the Enhancing Local Capacities for Socially Inclusive Resilience in Asia (SIRA) Project attend an orientation meeting about the program with ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability Southeast Asia (SEA) last August 28, 2025 via Zoom. This article also appears on the CLARE website. The […]

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Multi-level, multi-sector stakeholders from Indonesia call for inclusive resilience during national webinar

(In the picture left to right, per row): Panelist during the national webinar including, Dr. Raditya Jati, Deputy of System and Strategy at the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB); Arif Wibowo, Country Manager of ICLEI Indonesia; Dr. Dewa Ayu Lasmiati Jana Priati from the Ministry of Women Empowerment and Child Protection (Kemen PPPA); Nizhar […]

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A transformative active mobility action in the Philippines

The IKI-funded SPARK project (SPARKing active mobility actions for climate-friendly cities) responds to this shift and aims to promote active mobility strategies, policies, and practices that contribute to avoiding greenhouse gas emissions, improving safe connectivity in cities, and promoting climate-friendly mobility behaviour in the Philippines. Quezon and Pasig Cities were selected as pilot cities for […]

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Southeast Asian cities drive nature-based solutions, biodiversity action amid climate overshoot

On 19–20 August 2025 in Singapore, city leaders, national governments, finance experts, and regional bodies from five Southeast Asian countries gathered to ramp up climate and biodiversity action. At the two-day conference on urban nature-based solutions, they pledged stronger, faster efforts to harness nature as a powerful ally in tackling the climate and ecological crises. […]

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