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 […]
Experts Concur to Sustain Practices Implemented under Urban Nexus Project
The Ninth and the concluding Regional Workshop on the “Integrated Resource Management in Asian Cities- The Urban Nexus”, project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and implemented by Regional GIZ in partnership with UNESCAP and ICLEI-Southeast and South Asia was organised on 22nd and 23rd of May at Bangkok. […]
Kochi to get Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan
A Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (LBSAP) is being prepared for Kochi, as part of the INTERACT-Bio project, which is supported by Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The action plan is one of the major outputs of the project. Detailed ward-level discussions on biodiversity conservation and associated […]
Gangtok Meeting Highlights City Biodiversity Issues
A stakeholder consultation was organised in Gangtok on the 21st of May as part of the Gangtok Municipal Corporation-funded project on the management of natural resources in the city. The consultation helped to identify the critical ecosystems in Gangtok and the problems these areas faced. The attendees participated in group exercises and discussions, and came […]
Partner Agencies Unveil Plans at SECURE Himalaya Project Meet
The Himachal Pradesh forest department held its third state-level meeting as part of the UNDP-supported SECURE Himalaya project in Shimla on May 17, 2019. All partner agencies presented their fieldwork plans at the meeting. The expert committee highly appreciated the presentation made by ICLEI South Asia. The SECURE Himalaya project team also made its first […]
CDKN Workshop Puts Focus on 2020 Themes
SouthSouthNorth (SSN) hosted a three-day workshop at its office in Cape Town, South Africa, from May 14 to 16, 2019, as part of a team-building and planning event held under the aegis of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN). The participants included CDKN’s Country Engagement Leads from Nepal, India and Bangladesh, besides Kenya, Ethiopia, […]
CDKN Launches in Nepal, Conducts Action Labs in Asia
ICLEI South Asia, the Asia Regional Coordinator for Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) programme, organised Action Labs in India, Nepal and Bangladesh in the month of April 2019. The purpose of the Action Labs was to have close engagement with in-country actors at national, regional and city level actors as well as identify Knowledge […]
Reflecting on Approaches and Methodologies under INTERACT-Bio Project
A methodology workshop was organised as part of the ongoing Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU), Germany supported INTERACT-Bio project. The workshop provide the opportunity for project partners to reflect on the approaches and methodologies followed so far and plan for the remainder of the project. During the workshop, discussions […]
Developing Low Emission Development Strategies in India and Bangladesh
The Urban-LEDS phase II project (2017 – 2021) supported by the European Commission, and implemented in partnership with UN-HABITAT, in its second phase is actively supporting the cities of Narayanganj and Rajshahi in Bangladesh and Nagpur and Thane in India in developing climate resilient strategies and action plans, while also developing innovative pilot projects and […]