Rajkot to be one of the First Indian Cities to Develop District Cooling System
A workshop on ‘Cooling Smart Cities: The Arrival of District Energy in India’ was organised on the 7th of February 2019 in Rajkot, Gujarat, by UN Environment with support from ICLEI South Asia and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation funded CapaCITIES project. The aim of the workshop was to raise awareness, accelerate investments and […]
Nagpur Announces Deep Dive Commitment with Building Efficiency Accelerator
Nagpur, India is the latest city to be selected for a deep dive partnership with the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA), a public-private collaboration that accelerates local government implementation of building efficiency policies and programs. As a deep dive partner, Nagpur will benefit from enhanced technical support with the goal of reaching an ambitious 10 percent […]
State Level Meeting to Discuss Project Activities in Solapur
A state level review meeting with the officials of Water and Sanitation Support Organisation (WSSO) of Maharashtra, under the IAdapt project, was held in Navi Mumbai on the 8th of February, 2019. The IAdapt project is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada and being implemented at Solapur in Maharashtra and Vijayawada in […]
Mapping and Documenting Tree Diversity of Subhash Bose Park in Kochi
As part of the ongoing BMU supported INTERACT Bio project, a pictorial handbook of the trees of Subhash Bose Park has been developed. This handbook aims at communicating the significance of biodiversity to the citizens of Kochi. The handbook also consists of tree distribution maps of the Park. It was released on the 3rd of […]
Swiss, National Experts Share Ideas on Best Practices
Under the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) supported CapaCITIES project, a Best Practice Workshop was organised by the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) with support from ICLEI South Asia on the 30th and 31st of January in New Delhi. The workshop addressed good practices on integrating climate measures in urban planning and […]
BLOG: Indian Infrastructure Must Be Climate-Proofed to the Core
Investing in infrastructure to meet the population’s development needs remains a top priority for the government of India. Increasingly, as the impacts of climate change begin to bite, government-sanctioned projects expressly identify climate change as a risk to development. However, this welcome attention to climate issues is yet to be translated into infrastructure project designs […]
Toolkit for preparation of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Projects by ULBs
ICLEI South Asia provided technical support to the Global Infrastructure Basel to develop a project preparation checklist tool – “Preparation of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure Projects”, that would enable cities to consider aspects of sustainability and resilience while preparing a project proposal for investment. It will help cities track project progress by monitoring achievement of […]
Transport Experts Plan to Decongest Siliguri Roads
As part of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation supported CapaCITIES project, a study to decongest major arterial roads in Siliguri has been initiated. A team of transport experts from The Urban Lab visited the city in this regard. They carried out extensive discussions with officials of Siliguri Municipal Corporation to understand the present […]
EcoLogistics Aims to Transform Urban Freight
ICLEI South Asia was invited by Transport Department, Government of Kerala to initiate discussion on sustainable urban freight management in Kochi as part of proposals for transforming transportation in Kerala. The discussion on urban freight was part of a deep-dive workshop on the transportation in Kerala held on the 15th January 2019 at Transport Commissionerate, […]
Understanding the Mechanism of Value Addition for Bioresources in Goa
As part of the Goa State Biodiversity Board supported Value Chain Analysis project, discussions have been carried out with farmers, middlemen and processors to understand the entire mechanism of value addition for 9 bioresources (Kokum, Arecanut, Kalprasa, Prawn, Muscle, Mackerel, Jackfruit, Honey Pollen, Xylia xylocarpa). The primary data thus collected, along with related secondary data […]