PROMISE Impact: Stakeholders Call for Connecting Rural, Urban Futures
ICLEI South Asia organised the second national exchange workshop under the PROMotion of Inclusive, Sustainable Growth and Diversity to Strengthen Local Governments (PROMISE) project in Jabalpur on 19th and 20th June 2019. The project was funded by the European Union. The workshop was organised in partnership with the Jabalpur Municipal Corporation (JMC), under the guidance […]
BLOG: Gender Equity in Climate Finance – Why Does it Matter?
Women, who form the majority of the world’s 3.4 billion poorest people[1], are often disproportionally affected by the impacts of climate change because of discriminating societal norms and unfit policies. It is well known and accepted that women and men also contribute to climate change responses in different ways. The Cancun Agreement (2010) acknowledges gender […]
Capacity Building Workshop Weighs Sustainable Urban Freight Management
ICLEI South Asia held a two-day capacity building workshop on sustainable urban freight management in Kochi on 7th and 8th June 2019. The Kochi Municipal Corporation was the co-host, while the Kochi Metro Rail Limited was the technical partner of the event, which was organised as part of the “EcoLogistics — Low Carbon Freight for […]
Himalayan Project Begins Participatory Landscape-level Mapping
Detailed field studies have begun in the Lahaul landscape, Himachal Pradesh, under the UNDP-supported SECURE Himalaya project. The aim of the exercise is to understand people’s dependence on forests for livelihood, the impact of climate change and the people’s perception of the issue of degradation and its consequences. A project team has carried out focus […]
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 […]
CDKN Guide Offers Practical Advice on Communicating Climate Change
This week, CDKN launches Communicating climate change: A practitioner’s guide, the revised 2019 edition. The guide is full of tips for communicating climate change effectively, drawn from CDKN’s experience in South Asia and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. It is by practitioners and for practitioners. If you have ever tried […]
Urban-LEDS II Builds on Phase 1 Synergies, Successes
The Urban-LEDS phase II project is expanding work on low emission planning to Colombia, Bangladesh, Lao PDR and Rwanda. Funded by the European Commission, the project is being implemented by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI). This project, which is being implemented in the 2017-21 period, […]
CapaCITIES Initiatives Help Cities Scale Up as Project Concludes
The first phase of the CapaCITIES project, supported by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), is drawing to an end, after three years of extensive work, assisting the cities of Coimbatore, Rajkot, Siliguri, and Udaipur to plan and implement several interesting mitigation and adaptation measures. The good practices and successful initiatives introduced through […]
BLOG: Should Indian Cities be More Empowered to Take Decisions?
The interconnection between city, citizen’s health and city government is very curious. A recent revelation of the decision taken by the city government of Philadelphia in America proves the point. The city council had added an additional tax of 1.5 cents per ounce on all sweetened drinks, including diet sodas. And the results are amazing. […]
BLOG: Resilient Cities Asia Pacific – Delegates Challenged to Think Long Term
Resilient Cities Asia Pacific (RCAP) 2019 — the Asia Pacific Forum on Adaptation and Urban Resilience — took place in New Delhi, India from 15-17 April 2019. The RCAP is an annual forum organised by the Asia Pacific offices of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and hosting rotates among different cities in the Asia […]