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Climate change is currently right before our eyes begin, instead, it’s already happening. As we know, the global temperature has been increasing by 1° Celsius in the past century 1). It affects the rise of sea levels, glaciers meltdown, vague weather, and food shortages all around the world. These issues become a heated discussion for all […]
Paris Agreement’s ratifiers are heading to Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt to attend COP 27 that will take place from 6-18 November 2022. Conference of Parties or COP is the supreme decision-making body of Paris Agreement where all states (193 countries plus European Union) review the implementation of the covenant. There are three major agendas will be […]
Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2022, entitled “Our World at Risk: Transforming Governance for a Resilient Future” published by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) explained how human biases and decision processes affect risk reduction outcomes. The report mentioned, in most daily situations, people rely on quick short cuts (heuristics) to allow […]
City of Banjarmasin hosted the second Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities’ climate mitigation training (M2), 2 February 2023, facilitated by Centre for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management in Southeast Asia Pacific (CCROM – SEAP) trainers. CCROM, one of CRIC training partners, is a research center at IPB University Bogor. Dr. Bernadia Tjandradewi, UCLG ASPAC […]
Pilot4DEV has produced a series of policy briefs (on its own or/and with the funding of the EU project LIFE Adapt Island) on climate mitigation and climate adaptation that is made available in the framework of the Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities (CRIC) project. Discover them by clicking the following links! [1] “Mangroves: at the heart of […]
The world faces a set of risks that feel both wholly new and eerily familiar. Cost of living dominates global risks in the next two years while climate action failures dominate the next decade. These findings explored in the latest edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report that was out yesterday, on 11 January […]
Plastic, as a material, can be harmful to ecosystems as well as human health. The management and treatment of plastic waste are complex processes – when plastic waste is not efficiently treated on site, it tends to be exported, which greatly impacts local environments and communities of receiving countries. This policy brief explores the impacts […]
Mataram Mayor H. Mohan Roliskana and Bandar Lampung Mayor Eva Dwiana, newly elected for the 2020-2024 period, separately affirmed their commitment to address climate change through the cities’ involvement in the Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities (CRIC) Project and support efforts to integrate climate resilience in city development planning documents. In the meeting between the […]
Financial investment is crucial in the global efforts to tackle climate change, as pronounced in the COP-26. It is also reflected in the Indonesian media for the past two months. In the December edition of Media Monitoring, climate finance remains the talk of the nation, along with the policy instruments to support such financing. We […]
Pilot4Dev Director Dr. Pascaline Gaborit explained about the Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities (CRIC) Project’s efforts in building city resilience, in a webinar organized by the University of Liège, Belgium, December 9, 2021. The webinar emphasized that building city resilience is an ongoing process, requires multi-stakeholder engagement and relies heavily on commitment and political will. […]
Climate Resilient and Inclusive Cities (CRIC) delivered Climate Action Plan (CAP) training to 267 local government representatives in nine Indonesian cities in 2021, serving as a significant milestone to help increase local government capacity in building urban climate resilience. The training also emphasised the need for the convergence of climate change adaptation and disaster risk […]
