Developing Inclusive Smart Cities: Key Sessions at International Conference Put Focus on Climate Finance in Bangladesh

ICLEI South Asia, in collaboration with GIZ Bangladesh, hosted two sessions during the third International Conference on Urban and Regional Planning, 2023, organised by the Bangladesh Institute of Planners on September 24, 2023, in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The two sessions were held as part of the Climate Resilient Inclusive Smart Cities (CRISC) project, funded by GIZ. […]
Climate Actions: CapaCITIES Workshop Calls for Prioritising Sectors, Leveraging Carbon Markets

Mr Kiritkumar Parmar, Hon’ble Mayor of Ahmedabad, and Mr. Praveen Chaudhary, IAS, Deputy Municipal Commissioner, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), inaugurated a workshop on climate action planning and climate finance on 25 August 2023. Thirty-five officials and representatives from different cities of Gujarat, the Gujarat Urban Development Mission and the Gujarat Urban Development Company attended the […]
Integrated Urban Services: Webinar Spotlights Learnings from Asian Initiatives

The US Department of State, the US Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) collaborated with ICLEI Southeast Asia and ICLEI South Asia for their first peer learning event, titled ‘Where to Start: Integrated Infrastructure Planning’ under the larger Integrated Urban Services programme. The peer learning event was organised on the 28th […]
CDKN: Compendiums on Nature-Based Solutions and Climate Finance Launched at COP27

A compendium of nature-based solutions (NbS) and a compendium of finance sources to support climate actions in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, developed by ICLEI South Asia under the Climate and Development Knowledge Network-Knowledge Accelerator programme, were released at the UN’s COP27 climate summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, recently. The Nature-based Solutions for Urban Climate Resilience […]