Publications

  • Leading Climate Action in Cities: How are Balikpapan City and Bogor City doing it?

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 27, 2021

    The 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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  • Evaluating the Philippine Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) in 2021

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 23, 2021

    This article is a contribution from ASEP-CELLs. Two years after the Philippines officially transmitted its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) and officially committed the country to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by about 70% by 2030 — relative to its usual Business As Usual (BAU) scenario of 2020-2030 — the Duterte administration decided to […]

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  • One Indonesian Data for Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Development: Governance and Usefulness of Data

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 22, 2021

    Data governance plays a key role in ensuring that high-quality and disaggregated data and information are available for various policy, program, and development needs. Currently, the Government of Indonesia is continuing the inter-sector data integration, not limited to spatial data through the national geospatial information network (Presidential Regulation 27/2014), but also other development data through […]

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  • Climate Financing Access Guidebook for Local Governments

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on July 20, 2021

    Local governments play a pivotal role in the fight against climate change in which their fiscal capacity will be one of the criteria used by line ministries in providing and forwarding the available grants for this purpose. In order to map out fiscal capacity and improve local government fiscal governance, budget tagging is one of the […]

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  • DOE, ASEP-CELLs, ICLEI releases energy efficiency & conservation guide for PH LGUs

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on June 17, 2021

    While Republic Act No. 11285 or the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act (EEC Act) was a landmark policy towards institutionalizing EEC in the Philippines, local government units (LGUs) have been challenged in its implementation. The Department of Energy (DOE), the European Union-supported Access to Sustainable Energy Programme (EU ASEP), ASEP Clean Energy Living Laboratories (ASEP-CELLs), […]

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  • ADB releases new economic and development resources

    Posted by Chris Hidalgo on June 8, 2021

    The Asian Development Bank has released its latest economic and development resources—including data-driven research, policy analysis, toolkits, and guidelines—that can help policymakers, organizations, and citizen actors in various fields. The resources cover topics on climate change, disaster risk management, environment, economics, finance, and trade, among others. Some of the publications include: Practical Guidebook on Data […]

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