As in 2019, Palembang’s population consists of 1,602,071 inhabitants. With an area of 369.22 sq kilometers, Palembang has a year-round tropical climate. Topographically, most of Palembang is comprised of lowlands, except the small area on the Northside which has a higher elevation than the rest of the city. Most of the grounds are marshlands that [...]

The Paris Agreement recognises the role of non-Party stakeholders in addressing climate change, including cities. IUC Asia creates an opportunity to promote enhanced, strategic and sustained approaches supporting transformational change and enabling cities’ stakeholders to build the capacities needed to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Supported by UN Habitat and CDP, IUC Asia have [...]

To follow up the Climate Action Plan (CAP) development , Makassar and  IUC Asia met online on Thursday  21 May 2020 to discuss on the progress of the project. The interactive session focussed on the data collection can be used for Green House Gases (GHG) inventory report and Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA). Also [...]

19 May 2020 | IUC Asia, in partnership with the CCROM – IPB, conducted capacity building workshop to Malang’s official agencies as a part of climate action plan development. The workshop was designed to provide the knowledge to set up climate change adaptation plan which emphasize the climate risk and vulnerability assessments (CRVA). Symptoms of [...]

The Government of Indonesia launched the Low Carbon Development Initiative (LCDI) during the  2018 International Monetary Fund-World Bank Group Annual  Meetings in Bali, Indonesia. LCDI is a process for identifying development policies that maintain economic growth, alleviate poverty, and help meet sector-level development targets, while simultaneously helping Indonesia achieve its climate objectives, and preserve and [...]

Strengthening of the capacity of city governments in developing City Climate Action Plan (CAP) in line with the GCoM Common Reporting Framework (CRF) is a key component of the International Urban Cooperation (IUC) Asia activity in Vietnam. Capacity building workshop on climate adaptation was held for Can Tho’s stakeholders on 14 May 2020. This was [...]

The IUC team organised a coordination meeting among the European Union’s Joint Research Center (JRC) and IUC’s technical partner CCROM (Centre for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management) to discuss the integration of Indonesia’s climate reporting platforms (SIGN SMART – SIDIK) into the Global Covenant of Mayors’ Common Reporting Framework (CRF). Background Ministry of Environment and […]

Meeting climate mitigation and adaptation objectives require pipelines of many thousand low-carbon urban infrastructure projects throughout the world.  Public finance on its own will be insufficient. Development banks and the private sector recognize the magnitude of the challenge; thus, many are increasing funding to drive forward the Paris Agreement goals. However, one threat to attracting […]

Vietnam suffers from routine extreme weather events such as typhoons and tropical storms, sea level rise, land subsidence, and seawater intrusion. Over the past five decades, changing precipitation patterns have been visibly observed in different regions, average temperature has increased by 0.5°C throughout the country. Sea level rise and urban inundation are major climate threats [...]

Cities now need to move toward implementing concrete measures contained in climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Numerous funding mechanisms are now available from climate funds, multilateral development banks and development cooperation partners. However, local governments often lack the capacity, knowledge and resources to prepare bankable project proposals. GCoM and the German and Luxembourg Government [...]