Emani Kumar
Deputy Secretary General, ICLEI and Executive Director, ICLEI South Asia |
Dear readers!
The lockdown period has changed how we view the environment and the issues of climate change and a sustainable lifestyle. While it is too early to hope for a radical change in public behaviour, what we can hope for is more actions to tackle the environmental crisis.
ICLEI South Asia continues to contribute to these efforts, including in our CapaCITIES project that is championing both adaptation and mitigation efforts simultaneously. The results of the project’s second-phase implementation in eight cities will now be disseminated to the rest of the country, thanks to a statement of intent signed in July with the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA).
Among other activities during the month, under the INTERACT-Bio project, we released a unique pocketbook on wild edible plants of Goa, which are vanishing fast due to rapid urbanisation; organised an Asia LEDS Partnership (ALP) webinar on economic recovery and visioning for the power sector; and completed the post-implementation assessment of an Urban95 programme intervention in Udaipur. There are also reports in this edition on the technical guidelines Nagpur has prepared to make its housing more energy efficient, to which ICLEI South Asia also contributed under the Building Efficiency Accelerator (BEA) project, Nagpur’s new Urban Biodiversity Map and an ALP case study of Sri Lanka’s framework for an electric mobility policy.
Looking ahead, I invite all our readers to join our webinars on climate resilience, which will be held every Thursday in August under the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) project.The registration links are available in the webinar announcement in this edition.
The process of electing ICLEI South Asia’s new Regional Executive Committee for the 2021-24 period is now underway. We invite all eligible candidates to send in their applications by 15th August, 2020.
I hope you enjoy reading this edition! |
