Publications
Cities With Nature launches new resources and tools for sustainable development
The Cities With Nature Initiative recently launched various tools and resources that can help local governments in their sustainable urban development thrusts. These include books, case studies, expert papers, guidebooks, and even training resources along the fields of biodiversity, ecosystems, built environment, climate change, and disaster risk reduction. Some of the resources available are the […]
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New ADB sustainability publications as of June 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 sustainability-related resources include: Financing Clean Energy […]
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Case study of MRV Pilot Testing LFG Methodology at Manggar Landfill Balikpapan City
Balikpapan City has the vision to be a leading, comfortable, and sustainable city in Indonesia. This vision is also associated with the city’s aspirations to pursue low emission development as an effort to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through several priority sectors, one of which is the waste management sector. The city’s sanitary landfill, locally […]
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Leading Climate Action in Cities: How are Balikpapan City and Bogor City doing it?
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
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
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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