Publications

  • 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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  • 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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  • 100% Renewables Cities and Regions Roadmap project launches framework and case studies

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on December 14, 2021

    The 100% Renewables Cities and Regions Roadmap project launched a number of knowledge products at the COP26 LGMA Pavilion last 4 November 2021. These knowledge products include renewable energy case studies, as well as a framework to aid in the development of a 100% renewable energy roadmap, either for a single sector such as electricity, […]

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  • ASEP-CELLs releases latest newsletter

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on October 26, 2021

    The European Union-supported Access to Sustainable Energy Programme-Clean Energy Living Laboratories (ASEP-CELLs) has released the second issue of Transverse, its official newsletter. On top of updates about its previous activities, this issue also features stories about its beneficiary communities, as well as insights and reflections from the project’s field implementation. You may download it from […]

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  • UNEP publishes compendium on how to address healthcare wastes

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on October 20, 2021

    Before the pandemic began, hospitals around the world produced an estimated 0.5kg of healthcare wastes per bed each day. As the number of COVID-19 infections rose, so too did the amount of medical waste generated by hospitals, clinics, laboratories, quarantine centers, and research facilities. These vary in composition and can be broken down into general […]

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  • IGES report highlights collective learning and co-creation as keys to sustainable lifestyles

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on October 6, 2021

    “Sustainable, secure and reliable ways of living are not predetermined goals based on assessments of individual lives, but rather a process of collective learning and co-creation by all partners to develop aspirations and capacities that can envision and shape alternative living contexts.” This is what the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the One-Planet Network learned […]

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