KASpaces: SDG Ambassadors Underline Need for City Action Plans, Building Adaptive Capacity
In a first-of-its-kind programme, ICLEI South Asia partnered with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) to launch the KASpaces SDG Ambassador Programme for South Asian countries in 2022. The programme aims to help create capable and engaged political leaders, with the abilities needed to effect long-term change in their communities. The negotiations at international events such as […]
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 […]
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 […]
Awareness Event Underlines How Composting Helps Improve Air Quality
ICLEI South Asia, in collaboration with Meerut Nagar Nigam and Club 60 NGO, organised an event on the 12th of December 2022 in Tagore Park, Meerut to inaugurate the composting practices in the area. A training was also organised for the benefit of the residents of H Block, Shastri Nagar, in the city to understand […]
Ramping up UrbanShift Activities in India: Pune and Surat Take the Lead
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has launched the Sustainable Cities Impact Programme with the brand name UrbanShift, which is supporting 23 cities in nine countries, including three primary cities – Chennai, Pune, and Surat – and three secondary cities in India for participating in the GEF-7 financing round (2018-2022). To achieve sustained and effective action […]
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 Engages with Urban Climate Agenda at COP27
Key Outcomes and Takeaways from COP27 The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) at Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, concluded on the 20th of November 2022. More than 45,000 people attended COP27 to exchange concepts, find solutions and form partnerships. National and subnational governments, local communities, and civil society, especially the youth, demonstrated how they […]
Critical Ecosystems for Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans for Jammu, Srinagar Identified
ICLEI South Asia is developing the Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans for Jammu and Srinagar under the INTERACT-Bio project, supported by the International Climate Initiative of the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMUV), Germany. In this regard, stakeholder consultations were held in Jammu and Srinagar on the 15th […]
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 […]