Bangladesh hosts Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogue
ICLEI South Asia and International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) jointly organised the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogues: The Bangladesh Dialogue on the 18th of November during the Third Annual National Conference on Urban Resilience in Dhaka, Bangladesh. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability is supporting the Talanoa Dialogue – a United Nations […]
Rajkot City Won OPCC Award 2018, Urban LEDS II launched at WWF-India Event
ICLEI member city Rajkot was felicitated with One Planet City Challenge (OPCC) award at the ‘Role of Cities in Addressing Climate Change’ conference organised by WWF-India in partnership with ICLEI South Asia on the 12th of November in New Delhi. The city was announced as the winner and was also felicitated at the OPCC global […]
Roundtable on “Road-map for Electrifying IPT sector in Indian Cities” at Urban Mobility India Conference and Expo 2018
ICLEI South Asia organised a roundtable on “Road-map for Electrifying IPT Sector in Indian Cities” at Urban Mobility India (UMI) Conference and Expo 2018 in Nagpur from 2nd to 4th of November 2018. The annual UMI Conference and Expo is a flagship event held under the aegis of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, […]
Cities discuss development of sustainable cities at the Green Cities Conference in Melaka
In our bid to enable peer-learning among cities and sub-national entities, ICLEI South Asia, as a technical partner, supported the Green Cities Conference in Melaka from the 1st to 3rd of October, 2018. The Conference hosted by the Melaka province in Malaysia, was supported by the Asian Development Bank and conducted by the Center for […]
Stakeholders Gather for the First Talanoa Dialogue in India
The Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) Government of India and ICLEI South Asia jointly organised the Cities and Regions Talanoa Dialogue workshop in New Delhi. The one-day workshop brought together stakeholders from governments, academia, international community, private sector and civil society with an aim to strengthen aspects of multi-level governance to enable […]
The CapaCITIES Project Cities Participate in Local Renewables Conference 2018
As part of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation supported CapaCITIES project, Siliguri, Rajkot, Coimbatore and Udaipur – project cities – participated in the Local Renewables Conference 2018 in Freiburg, Germany. A session dedicated to the project was organised in the conference which emphasised on discussing initiatives focussing on renewable energy and circular economy […]
The EcoLogistics – Low Caron Freight for Sustainable cities kicks off in India
The national kick-off workshop for the project “EcoLogistics – Low Caron Freight for Sustainable cities” was organised on the 31st of October in New Delhi. The project aims to prioritise strategies that will focus on promoting the transportation of goods with minimised impacts on air quality, noise, health, fatalities & injuries, traffic congestion and reduced […]
Workshop Discusses Gender Inclusive Framework under CDKN Programme
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) workshop was organised under the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) programme in London from the 9th-11th of October, 2018. The event brought together the four alliance partners of CDKN: ICLEI South Asia, Fundacion Futuro LatinoAmericano (FFLA), SouthSouthNorth (SSN) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) to discuss and agree on […]
Partners training program on Decision Support Tool
A training program was conducted by Athena Infonomics on the 8th of October, 2018 in Chennai for IAdapt Project Partners on the Decision Support Tool (DST) being developed under the IDRC supported IAdapt project to facilitate and support local governments and catchment managers to make climate informed decision for sustainable water management. The tool will […]
Exposure Visit for Solapur Officials to Nagpur Under the IAdapt Project
ICLEI – South Asia organised an exposure visit for the officials of Solapur Municipal Corporation (SMC) to Nagpur city under the project on Integrated Rural Urban Water Management for Climate Based Adaptations in Indian Cities (IAdapt) supported by IDRC, Canada. The project is being implemented in two cities – Solapur and Vijaywada and focusses on […]