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 […]
ALP Webinar Spotlights Tools, Case Studies on Speeding up Local Energy Transition
Cities consume more than three-quarters of the world’s energy and account for nearly 70% of the greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, there is an urgent need to increase urban energy governance and to quicken the transition to greener sources of energy. In this context, the Grid-Scale Energy Community of Practice of the Asia LEDS Partnership organised […]
Malaysia GCAP Forum Highlights Actions Needed for Building Resilient Cities
ICLEI South Asia, in association with ICLEI South-East Asia and the Indonesia-Malaysia- Thailand Growth Triangle Joint Business Council, is supporting the development of Green City Action Plans (GCAPs) of four Malaysian cities under the Malaysia GCAP Subproject 1. The GCAP programme has been designed by the Ministry of Economy and Asian Development to benefit fourteen […]
Urban95: Capacity Building Workshop Puts Focus on Scalability, Sustainability of Projects
The fifth and final capacity-building workshop under the second phase of the Urban95 programme, supported by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, was held on August 17, 2023 in Udaipur, focusing on the issues of scalability and sustainability in projects. Ninety representatives and officials from the government, the private sector, NGOs and academia, among others, participated […]
Virtual Study Tour Offers Window into Surat’s Visionary E-Bus Initiatives
Surat city’s initiatives aimed at achieving a fully electric public transport bus fleet by 2025 represents not only a remarkable technological transition facilitated by an Intelligent Transportation Management System (ITMS), but also a conscious commitment to offer safe, accessible, reliable, advanced and low carbon (SARAL) mobility to its residents. These actions position Surat as one […]
Hyderabad: Stakeholder Consultation Focuses on Strategies for City Climate Action Plan, Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is developing the Climate Resilient City Action Plan (CRCAP) – Towards a Net-Zero Future and the Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (LBSAP) for Hyderabad, with technical assistance from ICLEI South Asia. In this connection, a stakeholder consultation meeting was organised on 29 August 2023 in Hyderabad. At the […]
Road to Net Zero: Ahmedabad’s New Climate Action Plan Charts the Way
Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Bhupendrabhai Patel released the “Ahmedabad Climate Resilient City Action Plan – Towards a Net Zero Future”, a document developed jointly by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation and ICLEI South Asia, at a glittering event held on 7 July 2023, under the aegis of the Urban20 Mayoral Summit in the city. Among the […]
CDKN: Webinar Spotlights Inclusive, Equitable Roles for Marginalised Communities in Climate Actions
Daring Cities 2023, an action-oriented annual global forum on climate change for urban leaders taking on the climate emergency, was recently organised by ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability in Bonn, Germany. As part of the virtual forum, ICLEI South Asia hosted an engaging webinar on ‘’Reaching out to All: Mainstreaming Gender and Social Inclusion to […]
Experts Weigh in on Key Factors for Building Climate-Resilient Cities in Urban 20 Session
The National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) and ICLEI South Asia jointly organised a plenary and panel discussion as a parallel event during the Urban 20 (U20) Mayoral Summit in Ahmedabad on 8 July 2023. The focus of the event was “Building Climate Responsive and Resilient Cities”, signifying the need to prioritise sustainable infrastructure, sustainable […]
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 […]