{"id":7599,"date":"2022-12-07T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T07:08:08","slug":"probolinggo-city-is-global-winner-of-2022-wwf-we-love-cities-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/2022\/12\/07\/probolinggo-city-is-global-winner-of-2022-wwf-we-love-cities-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Probolinggo City is global winner of 2022 WWF We Love Cities campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
Citizens of Probolinggo City actively participated in the We Love Cities campaign.<\/strong>
\n Source: Probolinggo City website<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n

Probolinggo City in Indonesia is the Southeast Asian regional and overall global winner of this year\u2019s World Wide Fund for Nature\u2019s (WWF) We Love Cities (WLC) campaign, besting 62 other cities across 27 countries.<\/p>\n

We Love Cities is a public outreach initiative that enables people all around the globe to show their support for sustainable urban development by voting for their favorite finalists from WWF’s One Planet City Challenge (OPCC)<\/span><\/a> and submitting recommendations for how these cities can be more sustainable.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s competition garnered over 1.29-million votes and received over 116,000 suggestions on how participating cities can further be made environment-friendly.<\/p>\n

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(middle), Habib Hadi Zainal Abidin, Mayor of Probolinggo City, Indonesia during the We Love Cities campaign activities.\u00a0<\/strong>Source: Probolinggo City website<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/h6>\n

In a statement on Probolinggo\u2019s official government website<\/span><\/a>, Mayor Habib Hadi Zainal Abidin shared his gratitude and the city\u2019s sustainability initiatives, saying \u201cWe embarked on a comprehensive campaign of Probolinggo City\u2019s environmental programs and encouraged citizens to engage and provide their support through voting, suggesting sustainability ideas, and social media interactions.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also revealed that Probolinggo’s environmental initiatives and public engagement campaign has placed it consistently within the top five WLC contenders in the Asia-Pacific region since the second week of the competition.<\/p>\n

“Our deepest gratitude and appreciation to all those who supported the City of Probolinggo. We hope to carry over the momentum from this campaign by striving for a more sustainable and comfortable city to live in,\u201d said the mayor.<\/p>\n

Prior to participating in the We Love Cities campaign, Probolinggo City was selected as one of the national finalists for the 2021-2022 WWF One Planet City Challenge (OPCC). Probolinggo also hosted a site visit<\/span><\/a> on 30 August to 1 September 2022 attended by WWF \u2013 Indonesia, ICLEI Indonesia, and journalists<\/span><\/a> to showcase its sustainability and climate mitigation initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Citizens of Probolinggo City actively participated in the We Love Cities campaign. Source: Probolinggo City website Probolinggo City in Indonesia is the Southeast Asian regional and overall global winner of this year\u2019s World Wide Fund for Nature\u2019s (WWF) We Love Cities (WLC) campaign, besting 62 other cities across 27 countries. We Love Cities is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,52,105,109,51,110],"tags":[1192,368,605,1352,1143,1353,161,119,174,1351,157,158,1130,1133,365,561,596,1152,1230,1229,156,155],"class_list":["post-7599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-featured-news","category-icleiindonesia","category-new-updates-indonesia","category-news","category-newsindonesia","tag-city-climate-action","tag-climate-action","tag-competition","tag-east-java","tag-environment","tag-habib-hadi-zainal","tag-iclei","tag-iclei-indonesia","tag-indonesia","tag-jawa-timur","tag-one-planet-city-challenge","tag-opcc","tag-probolinggo-city","tag-probolinggo-environmental-agency","tag-sustainability","tag-sustainable-cities","tag-sustainable-development","tag-urban-environments","tag-we-love-cities","tag-wlc","tag-world-wide-fund-for-nature","tag-wwf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7599"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7608,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7599\/revisions\/7608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icleiseas.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}