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Cauayan City, PH demonstrates energy efficiency and conservation experience
Continue readingQuezon City, Philippines – The local government unit of Cauayan City—considered as one of the “First Smarter Cities in the Philippines”—is serving as a success story of how the country’s cities can integrate energy efficiency and conservation (EEC) into their development plans. Sharing the city’s EEC initiatives last 15 July 2021 during the Luzon Energy […]
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Leading Climate Action in Cities: How are Balikpapan City and Bogor City doing it?
Continue readingThe cities of Balikpapan and Bogor in Indonesia continue to commit to embed a low emission development approach in their five-year development planning and were supported through the Urban-LEDS II Project. This case study outlines how the process in formulating the Urban-LEDS II CAP—to accelerate the low emission development with a climate resilience focus embedded—adopted […]
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Urban Champion: Dr. Bima Arya Sugiarto, S. Hum., M.A., Mayor of Bogor City
Continue readingThis article first appeared on Urban LEDS’ website. Bogor City is one of the model cities of the Urban Low Emission Development Strategies II (Urban-LEDS II) project. Under Mayor Bima Arya’s leadership, Bogor City exemplifies proactive city-level action towards low emission development and climate resilience. Mr. Bima Arya is now in his sixth year as […]
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Covid and the climate crisis in SE Asia
Continue readingThis opinion article first appeared at Bangkok Post. ‘A global reset”, “a sick planet”, “health security” are huge, heavy phrases that have been swirling in the global psyche for most of this Covid-19-marked year. They speak of the “must-do-something” type of issues that weigh on the minds of people everywhere, including in Southeast Asia, as […]