ICLEI South Asia Advocates Climate-Responsive Public Finance at Andhra Pradesh Summit 2025
ICLEI South Asia participated in the Andhra Pradesh Reimagining Public Finance Summit 2025. Mr. Emani Kumar, Executive Director, ICLEI South Asia and Deputy Secretary-General, ICLEI, joined as a panellist in the session titled “Capacity Building & Institutional Finance Reform” on 15 November 2025. The session brought together senior government officials, finance professionals, and sectoral experts […]
Floating Solar Power in Coimbatore Boosts Clean Energy Ambitions
A delegation from the Embassy of Switzerland in India and Bhutan visited the newly completed Floating Solar Power Plant on Periyakulam Lake in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, on 25 November 2025. The visit highlighted Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation’s (CCMC) commitment to driving innovative clean energy solutions and strengthening local climate action. The floating solar installation—Tamil Nadu’s […]
From Waste to Resilience: Cities Exchange Ideas for Climate and Waste Action Under CDKN’s Peer Learning Programme
ICLEI South Asia conducted a webinar on Solid Waste Management and Circularity on 19 November 2025 for city officials from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. This marked the beginning of a series of webinars under CDKN Asia’s year-long training and peer exchange programme for local governments on climate resilience and disaster risk reduction, and […]
Vadodara Municipal Corporation and ICLEI South Asia Strengthen Sanitation Workforce Through Citywide Zonal Micro Trainings
The Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC), in collaboration with ICLEI South Asia under the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)-funded CapaCITIES Phase III Project, conducted a series of Zonal Micro Trainings for sanitary inspectors, supervisors, and sanitary workers from 3-7 November 2025 across all four zones of Vadodara — East, West, North, and South. The […]
At COP30, ALP shows regional leadership in advancing GCAP’s Climate Implementation Agenda
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, ICLEI South Asia, serving as the Secretariat of the Asia LEDS Partnership (ALP), participated in two side events titled “The Global Climate Action Partnership: Launching a New Era of Accelerated Implementation,” on 10 November 2025 and a breakfast roundtable session on “The Global Climate Action Partnership: From Knowledge to Scaled […]
Tamil Nadu Accelerates District-Level Climate Action: ICLEI South Asia Drives Technical Leadership
ICLEI South Asia advanced Tamil Nadu’s growing climate action agenda through active participation in two key events in Chennai: the seminar on “Climate Change: Science, Impacts and Adaptation Strategies” on 1 November 2025 and the workshop on “Standardization of District Climate Action Plan (DCAP)” on 5 November 2025. Across both platforms, ICLEI South Asia showcased […]
ICLEI South Asia Conducts Training on Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction for Urban Local Governments in Dhaka, Bangladesh
ICLEI South Asia organised a two-day training on Climate Resilience and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for Urban Local Governments on 5–6 November 2025 at Nascent Gardenia, Dhaka, Bangladesh. The training was designed to equip municipalities in vulnerable regions with tools, practical knowledge, and planning approaches needed for developing and implementing climate-resilient municipal strategies. The training, […]
Scaling Climate Action Through Bundled Urban Projects: ICLEI South Asia’s Call at the CPPF Launch
ICLEI South Asia, as the technical partner of the Climate Projects Preparation Facility (CPPF), participated in the official launch of the Facility held on 24 November 2025 at the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Established by the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) with support from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and […]
Scaling Climate-Responsive Cities: Insights on DRR Integration from COP30
ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia, convened the session “Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction into Climate Action: City Experiences” on 17 November 2025 at the Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (DRI) Pavilion during the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil. The session, organised in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), […]
Training on Solid Waste Management and Planning for Selected Cities in Nepal
ICLEI South Asia conducted an in-person Training on Solid Waste Management (SWM) and Planning from 14–16 October 2025 in Sauraha, Chitwan, Nepal, as part of the ongoing capacity-building series under the Enhancing Local Capacities in Socially Inclusive Resilience in Asia (SIRA) project, funded by UK Aid through the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and […]