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Today, we are on the verge of a critical juncture. Global “excess deaths” directly and indirectly attributable to COVID-19 reached 15 million by the end of 2021. More than four years of progress in alleviating poverty have been wiped out, pushing 93 million more people worldwide into extreme poverty in 2020. Either we fail to […]
UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right. With 161 votes in favour, and eight abstentions, the UN General Assembly adopted a historic resolution on 28 July 2022, declaring access to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, a universal human right. Cited from UN News, the UN Secretary-General, António […]
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2022 warned the world is on the verge of a climate catastrophe where billions of people are already feeling the consequences. Energy-related CO2 emissions for 2021 rose by 6 percent, reaching their highest level ever and completely wiping out pandemic-related declines. To avoid the worst effects of climate change, as […]
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 […]
