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  • Modern Energy Cooking Services programme publishes study on urban fuel stacking in Indonesia

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on March 2, 2022

    The ICLEI Indonesia Office has recently completed a study on urban fuel stacking in Mataram City and Sumbawa Regency, Indonesia, helping analyze the factors driving cooking fuel choices in both areas. The study was completed under the UKAid-funded Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) programme. Around 2.6 billion people in the world still cook using polluting open […]

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  • EVENT: ICLEI invites SEA cities to set science-based climate actions

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on March 2, 2022

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report on the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change wherein they underscored that “Global surface temperature will continue to increase until at least the mid-century under all emissions scenarios considered.” This reality will rapidly become evident unless deep reductions in GHG emissions are enforced immediately. The […]

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  • First stakeholder dialogue session held for WNT 100% Renewable Energy Roadmap development

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on February 28, 2022

    (in photo above) A total of 75 participants from the priority sectors of household, building, industrial, transportation, and electricity attended the first stakeholder dialogue session for the West Nusa Tenggara 100% Renewable Energy Roadmap Development project.  The first dialogue session of the West Nusa Tenggara (WNT) 100% RE 2050 Roadmap concluded last 3 February 2022, […]

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  • EVENT: Asia LEDS Partnership to hold peer learning session on Emission Reduction Tool

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on February 9, 2022

    The Asia LEDS Partnership (ALP) is currently organizing a peer learning session on its Emission Reduction Tool developed for the Mongolia Trade and Development Bank with the support from the Mongolian Ministry of Environment. The session will present the spreadsheet-based tool which was developed for easy tracking of the project baselines and assess potential energy/emission reduction of […]

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  • No singular, universal path to sustainable living — IGES

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on February 2, 2022

    The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies has released the “Sustainable Ways of Living Issue Brief Series” as part of the Sustainable Lifestyles and Education (SLE) Programme of the One-Planet Network.  The SLE Programme has recently supported 24 projects aimed at creating sustainable lifestyles in cities and communities based on their unique needs and opportunities. These projects highlighted that there is no single universal path towards sustainable […]

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  • CALL FOR ENTRIES: UNDRR Earthbeat Challenge – From Risk to Resilience

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on January 26, 2022

    The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Youth4Planet is now accepting entries for this year’s Earthbeat Challenge. Carrying the theme “From Risk to Resilience,” the challenge encourages young people to share a 3-minute film highlighting what their community is doing to reducing risks and mitigating disasters arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate […]

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