CapaCITIES: Udaipur Marks World Environment Day with ‘Climate Week’
In a remarkable showcase of environmental commitment, the Udaipur Municipal Corporation (UMC) organised ‘Climate Week’, to mark World Environment Day (WED) as well as Mission LiFE, an India-led global mass movement to nudge individual and community action for environmental conservation. The Climate Week, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) funded CapaCITIES […]
Clean Air Action: Officials, Academicians Brainstorm Pollution Control Measures
ICLEI South Asia has been providing support to city governments in Delhi, Meerut, and Gurugram, as they grapple with the daunting challenge of air pollution, through the Clean Air Action project with support from the Clean Air Fund. As part of the project activities, a recent roundtable discussion titled Building City Leadership on Clean Air […]
Urban 20 Inception Meeting: ICLEI South Asia Provides Technical Support in Ahmedabad
The city of Ahmedabad hosted the inception meeting of the sixth edition of Urban 20 (U20), an engagement group under the Global 20 (G20) forum on 9th and 10th of February, 2023. Resonating with India’s G20 theme of ‘One Earth, One Family, One Future’, U20 Ahmedabad has emphasised that actions at the city level can […]
Webinar Underlines Importance of Circularity in Waste Management in South Asia
The generation of solid waste continues to increase globally in tandem with economic and population growth, and changing consumption patterns and lifestyle. Consequently, the focus in the waste management sector is shifting to reducing the quantity of the waste being generated. South Asia alone generates 334 million metric tonnes of solid trash annually, most of […]
Every Action Counts: Training Workshops Underline Better Waste Management for Improving Air Quality
Two training sessions were organised in the Delhi -National Capital Region recently for sanitation workers and waste pickers, as part of the project Building City leadership on clean air action in Delhi NCR, supported by the Clean Air Fund. The first technical training session was organised for about 100 waste pickers and drivers of Ecogreen, […]
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 […]
Clean Air for Blue Skies: Activities Put Focus on Air Pollution in National Capital Region
ICLEI South Asia conducted several activities in Meerut and Delhi to mark the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on the 7th of September 2022, under its ongoing project Building City Leadership on Clean Air Action in Delhi-National Capital Region, funded by the Clean Air Fund. The International Day of Clean Air for […]
PH, ID, MY Stakeholders Provide Local Waste Stream Insights, Possible Plastic Waste Management Strategies
Behavior change, capacity building, improved waste infrastructures, and stricter policy implementation—these are just some of the key actions that can help Iloilo City, Philippines; Jambi City, Indonesia; and Iskandar, Malaysia better address their plastic waste problem. Over 90 waste sector stakeholders across the three Southeast Asian local governments arrived at these insights during the consultation […]
SDGs Localisation: KAS, ICLEI South Asia Explore Opportunities in Nepal
The Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation (KAS) and ICLEI South Asia are jointly exploring opportunities to accelerate the implementation and localisation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while building the capacities of elected representatives in Nepal. In this regard, Mr. Andreas Michael Klein, Director, Regional Programme Political Dialogue Asia, KAS Singapore, and ICLEI South Asia staff held several meetings with representatives […]
Survey Assesses Waste Management in Bihar’s Gram Panchayats
ICLEI South Asia, as a sectoral expert, conducted a survey in 10 gram panchayats of four districts (Muzaffarpur, Samstipur, Nalanda, and Begusarai) of Bihar to understand the on-ground solid and liquid waste management practices in the state. The survey in the gram panchayats was initiated under the Preparation of Bihar State Waste Sector GHG Emissions […]