Clean Air Action Workshop: Success Stories Show Importance of Building Capacity, Stakeholder Action
The Delhi- National Capital Region has been enjoying relatively good air quality in the last two months, thanks to rainy weather. Meanwhile, key cities in the region continue to upscale their efforts to reduce air pollution. One initiative in which the cities of Delhi, Meerut and Gurugram collaborated in this regard is ICLEI South Asia’s […]
Asia LEDS Partnership: Webinar Highlights Role of Private Sector in Promoting Electric Mobility in India
The Clean Mobility Community of Practice of the Asia LEDS Partnership organized a webinar titled ‘Role of Private Sector in promoting Electric Mobility in India on 23rd June, 2023. The webinar was organized in the context of increased emissions from the transport sector in India which leads to adverse impacts associated with the emissions. In […]
Compendium on Greenhouse Gas Inventories for 3 Tamil Nadu Cities Released
Additional Chief Secretary of Environment, Climate Change and Forest Department, Government of Tamil Nadu (DOECCF), Smt. Supriya Sahu, IAS, released a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) compendium at the Tamil Nadu Green Climate Summit held on the 8th and 9th of December 2022. The compendium has the GHG inventory reports for the cities of Coimbatore, Tirunelveli and […]
Net Zero Buildings by 2050: Nagpur’s Roadmap Focuses on Policy Actions, Pilots and Capacity Building
Nagpur city in Maharashtra had successfully implemented energy-efficient improvements in the design of its upcoming affordable housing buildings, and energy benchmarking and audits of different building typologies, and had prepared guidelines to promote the adoption of climate-responsive homes under the Building Energy Accelerator (BEA) project (2018-2020). The city continues to advance its goals and actions […]
EcoLogistics: Demo Project Seeks to Spur Low-Emission Freight Delivery in Panaji
The delivery of almost all goods in Panaji, whether to individual households or local stores, is currently facilitated by fossil fuel-based vehicles. It’s no surprise, then, that these vehicles have been identified as major contributors to the air pollution and GHG emissions in the city. Taking note of this, Panaji is planning for a paradigm […]
ICLEI South Asia is Supporting Bihar in Formulating GHG Emissions Inventory and Low Carbon Action Plan (LCAP)
The Government of Bihar has committed to transforming itself into Net Zero State by 2070. In this effort, several leading technical agencies and organisations are helping the Bihar state towards its ambitious climate target. ICLEI South Asia, as one of the partner agencies, is supporting the state government of Bihar in strengthening its waste management […]
CDKN Policy Brief: Climate Resilience Planning in Nepal
Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) Asia has released a policy brief titled ‘Climate Resilience Planning in Mountainous Regions in Nepal’, which has been jointly developed by ICLEI South Asia and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development under CDKN’s Knowledge Accelerator project. The policy brief assesses the challenges in undertaking local climate mitigation and adaptation […]
EcoLogistics: Low Carbon Action Plan for Urban Freight Launched at ICLEI World Congress
The Low Carbon Action Plan for Urban Freight (LCAP-UF), developed by the cities of Kochi, Panaji, and Shimla, with support from ICLEI South Asia, was launched during the EcoLogistics session at the ICLEI World Congress in Malmo, Sweden. The Municipal Commissioners of Panaji and Shimla attended the event, along with city representatives from the United […]
Focus on CapaCITIES’ Coimbatore Initiatives at International Cooperation Forum
The International Cooperation Forum, Switzerland, hosted its 2022 hybrid and interactive conference in April, enabling a CO2 neutral event that included participants from across the world. Led by experts and scholars in the field of environment and climate change, as well as journalists and prominent world leaders, a plethora of climate issues were discussed. Speaking […]
EcoLogistics: Panaji Approves Low Carbon Action Plan for Urban Freight
The Corporation of the City of Panaji (CCP), with technical support from ICLEI South Asia, has developed and approved the Low Carbon Action Plan (LCAP-UF) for urban freight under the EcoLogistics project. The action plan prioritises strategies that focus on promoting transportation of goods with minimised impacts on air quality, noise, health, fatalities, and injuries, […]