Kochi Develops its City Biodiversity Index
Kochi has become one of the few cities in India to have a City Biodiversity Index (CBI), after Hon’ble Mayor Mrs. Soumini Jain released the CBI report in September. The city has secured a robust score, following an evaluation of 23 indicators in the index. Kochi’s CBI has been prepared with support from ICLEI-Local Governments […]
Kochi Becomes First Indian City to Have Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
The Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (LBSAP) of Kochi, which has been prepared by ICLEI South Asia under INTERACT-Bio project, has been accepted by the City Council and released by Mrs Soumini Jain, Hon’ble Mayor, Kochi Municipal Corporation (KMC). The project is being supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear […]
Kochi Councillors Call EcoLogistics Project a Timely Initiative
ICLEI South Asia presented the EcoLogistics project to the elected representatives of the Kochi Municipal Corporation at a meeting held at the council hall in Kochi, Kerala, on the 27th of April. The agenda of the meeting, held under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Mayor Ms. Soumini Jain, was to promote synergy of the projects being […]
National Meeting Analyses Low-Carbon Urban Freight Initiatives, Strategies
ICLEI South Asia organised the ‘National Meeting for EcoLogistics – Low Carbon Freight for Sustainable Cities’ on the 27th of November 2019 in New Delhi. It was attended by representatives from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India; NITI Aayog; IKI; city governments; Smart Cities Mission Special Purpose Vehicles; private firms […]
EcoLogistics Tool to Help Assess Urban Freight Transport Emissions
The ICLEI self-monitoring tool was launched as part of a national meeting on the EcoLogistics – Low Carbon Freight for Sustainable Cities project, organised on the 27th of November 2019 in New Delhi. The tool was launched in the presence of representatives from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), Government of India; NITI […]
EcoLogistics Stakeholder Meeting Highlights Gaps in Urban Freight Baseline Data
A stakeholder consultation meeting was organised in Panaji as part of the “EcoLogistics-Low Carbon Freight for Sustainable Cities” project on the 18th of December 2019. A first-of-its-kind global initiative, the project aims to prioritise strategies that will promote the transportation of goods with minimised impacts on air quality, noise, health, fatalities and injuries, besides traffic […]
Multiple Stakeholders Help Cities to Put Supply Chain Back on Track
The Government of India announced the world’s largest lockdown on the 24th of March 2020, to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and to set in place management protocols in the country. The initial days of the lockdown impacted transport movement and market operations, delivering a massive shock to supply-chain networks of essential goods. […]
Nagpur gets Urban Biodiversity Map
ICLEI South Asia has developed the Illustrated Urban Biodiversity Map of Nagpur, as part of the assignment on the development of a People’s Biodiversity Register for the Nagpur Municipal Corporation. The map depicts the biodiversity of the city and is an effective tool to communicate the significance of urban biodiversity to the citizens of Nagpur. ICLEI […]
Nagpur’s Oranges Give City’s Illustrated Biodiversity Map a Unique Flavour
ICLEI South Asia has developed the Illustrated Urban Biodiversity Map of Nagpur, as part of the assignment to develop a People’s Biodiversity Register (PBR) of the city. Smt. Buveneswari S., CEO, Nagpur Smart, and Sustainable City Development Corporation Limited – which has supported this initiative along with the Nagpur Municipal Corporation – released the map […]
CDKN webinars highlight knowledge brokering, climate finance and frontline experiences in battling the pandemic
ICLEI South Asia and SouthSouthNorth (SSN), under the Climate Development Knowledge Network-Knowledge Accelerator (CDKN-KA) project, organised three sessions over a fortnight in October during the Daring Cities 2020, a virtual global forum, to deliberate on the need to bridge the gap between knowledge and action. Given the climate urgency, the sessions discussed possible ways to […]