Shimla among world’s first five cities to get City Resilience Index (CRI)
Arup, in association with ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia and Municipal Corporation of Shimla (MCS), piloted the City Resilience Index (CRI) tool in Shimla. The tool was developed by Arup with support from Rockefeller Foundation to help the city build resilience. Read full report: City Resilience Index Shimla, India Apart from India, the […]
Panaji makes it to Smart Cities List under Fast Track Mode, two more ICLEI members selected
Panaji, the capital city of Goa, has successfully made it to the list of cities selected under India’s Smart City Mission Fast Track Mode. The names of 13 cities selected under Fast Track Mode were announced on Tuesday by Union Minister Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu. These cities, in addition to the initially selected 20 Smart […]
Habitat III: ICLEI’s response to Zero Draft of New Urban Agenda
On 15 May, local and regional governments and networks from around the world convened at the first session of the Second World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments in New York City to provide input into the United Nations Habitat III Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. This meeting was the first in the […]
Towards building resilience: vulnerability assessment and ground-truthing in Kurseong and Gangtok
ICLEI South Asia in collaboration with the Kurseong Municipality (KM) and Gangtok Municipal Corporation (GMC), in April this year, organised the 2nd Shared Learning Dialogue (SLD) workshops under Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) project supported by Rockefeller Foundation, in the respective cities. ICLEI South Asia team facilitated the workshop to undertake the vulnerability […]
Asia LEDS holds webinars to share knowledge on energy tools
The Asia LEDS Partnership, along with LEDS Global Partnership’s Energy Working Group, has been holding webinars to spread the word about its toolkits and to share some case studies. The webinar on “Long range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) System: Applications in Vietnam and Indonesia”, held in March, showcased two case examples of the tool’s application […]
Pune hosts the energy fair under Earth Hour City Challenge
ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia, in collaboration with World Wide Fund (WWF) India and Pune Municipal Corporation, recently organised a one-day renewable energy fair at Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park on April 25, 2016. The renewable energy fair was organised under Earth Hour City Challenge, the on-going programme between ICLEI South Asia and WWF […]
Bhagalpur city from Bihar joins ICLEI's network
Bhagalpur, popularly known as silk city situated on the southern bank of the Ganges in the Indian state of Bihar, has successfully become an ICLEI member. The third largest city in Bihar and the largest city in eastern Bihar, is also one of the major educational, commercial and political centres of eastern India. The city […]
Interview: How Gangtok is moving towards development that is sustainable
How do you think Gangtok is moving towards achieving development that is sustainable for the city? Upgrading current water supply line, creating new storage tanks, improving distribution systems, and moving to 24-hour water supply by and managing our water resources with help from Asian Development Bank are a few measures that Gangtok has been adopting […]
Enhancing climate resilience in India’s Gorakhpur city
ICLEI South Asia recently partnered with the RUAF Foundation (Resource Centers on Urban Agriculture and Food Security) to undertake a formative evaluation of the “Enhancing Climate Resilience of Gorakhpur city by Buffering Floods in the City” project. The project that focuses on climate resilient peri-urban agriculture has been implemented by Gorakhpur Environmental Action Group (GEAG). […]
IUWM campaigns promote water conservation and solid waste management
A catchment cleanliness drive was organised in February by ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability South Asia and Solapur Municipal Corporation as a supporting initiative for the pilot project on “Ground Water Recharge through Abandoned Bore wells”. The drive was organised at Neelam Nagar, Solapur under the project Adopt Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM). The objective […]