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  • SEA cities tackle how to decarbonize buildings in the region

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on December 7, 2022

    Buildings represent about 37% of global energy use and energy-related CO2 emissions. In ASEAN, the building sector accounts for 23% of the region’s energy consumption and energy-related CO2 emissions (equivalent to 0.4 gigatonnes of CO2). The ASEAN Center for Energy reported that this sector’s energy use is still expected to grow by around 60% by 2030 and […]

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  • Driving finance to urban adaptation: City networks call for COP 27

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on December 7, 2022

    This document is a joint effort between the C40 City Climate Leadership Group and members of the GCoM Finance Technical Working Group, including the Cities Climate Finance Alliance (CCFLA), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) in […]

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  • ICLEI South Asia releases compendium on Nature-based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on December 6, 2022

    This compendium will be useful for governments at all levels and is intended to support key actors and institutions to plan, implement, replicate and upscale nature-based solutions. The learnings from each case study detailed in the compendium will also be helpful for practitioners, NGOs, civil society and academics to better understand how to implement NbS […]

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  • Indonesian cities learn how to accelerate e-bus transition

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on December 5, 2022

    (in photo above) Participants in the session rode an e-bus around Jakarta. The TUMI E-Bus Mission City Network on 17-19 October 2022 provided peer-to-peer exchange and capacity building to the Indonesian cities of Bandung, Bogor, Denpasar, Medan, Palembang, Pekanbaru, and Semarang in order to accelerate the cities’ transition to electric buses. Organized by ICLEI Indonesia […]

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  • FREE WEBINAR: International Forum on Low Carbon Cities

    Posted by Juniarti Elisabeth on December 5, 2022

    The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Incheon Metropolitan City are jointly holding the 2nd International Forum on Low Carbon Cities on 6-8 December 2022. Conducted in collaboration with CityNet, Climate Change Center, Green Climate Fund, ICLEI SEAS, Incheon Climate & Environment Research Center, and IGDP, the forum will […]

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  • Del Carmen, PH calls for climate action following extreme weather events

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on December 4, 2022

    WATCH: Alfredo Coro II, Mayor of the Municipality of Del Carmen in the Philippines, shares the devastating impact of Super Typhoon Rai last December 2021 and how climate change is leaving small island municipalities more and more vulnerable to extreme weather events.  He calls on world leaders to undertake and accelerate significant #ClimateAction.

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