Thane shows the way through municipal schools and street lighting programmes
The Thane city, located in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region in western India, is best known for its ambitious commitments and actions to promote renewable energy and energy efficiency. The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) joined the Urban-LEDS programme in 2012 to accelerate its progressive climate action trajectory. Guided by ICLEI’s Green Climate Cities (GCC) process, Thane […]
Six Indian ‘satellite’ cities benefit from approaches and practices of low-emission urban development
The Urban-LEDS project supports rapidly growing cities in four emerging economy countries: Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa. From India, Panaji, Gwalior, Shimla, Coimbatore, Nagpur and Pimpri-Chinchwad are six of the emerging cities that have been chosen as satellite cities or the cities that are closely involved in observing, sharing and learning from the two […]
Rajkot's journey towards low carbon, sustainable development
Rajkot city of Gujarat state in western India has always been in limelight for its bold and innovative steps towards sustainable growth. It is the regional and local leadership of this fast developing city that has brought several accolades to the city in arenas such as sanitation and cleanliness, industrial development and other contemporary aspects […]
Panaji has benefited immensely from GreenClimateCities programme: Goa Commissioner
Shri. Dipak Deesai, Commissioner of Corporation of Panaji Goa talks about how the Urban LEDS project and city’s association with ICLEI has impacted the city over the years. Edited excerpts: How has Panaji benefited from the Urban LEDS project? Panaji was fortunate to be among eight hand-picked Cities in India for Urban-LEDS programme to strengthen […]
Urban LEDS: An overview
An Urban Low Emissions Development Strategy (Urban-LEDS), or Low Emissions Urban Development Strategy, defines a pathway to transition a city to a low emission, green and inclusive urban economy, through its integration into city development plans and processes. By exploring this, local governments can achieve immediate, direct, cost effective and scalable greenhouse gas (GHG) emission […]
Rajshahi: the city that took on air pollution – and won
In Bangladesh, one of the world’s most polluted cities and an ICLEI Member city has led the way globally in ridding itself of harmful PM10 particles. This is an offshoot of the Realising DReAMS project – the work started in the project is being continued by Rajshahi and has recently been featured in Guardian, a UK-based publication. […]
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 […]