The IUC-Asia programme held an online session today with Chinese and European experts in preparation of a large workshop scheduled to take place in China in September 2020 (TBC). At that workshop, the purpose will be to exchange policy views and best practices on resilience and adaptation to climate change, with a focus on green […]
The Paris Agreement recognises the role of non-Party stakeholders in addressing climate change, including cities. Part of the role of the IUC-Asia is to create opportunities 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 […]
The IUC-Asia programme held an online session today to present its progress on the ongoing EU-China Low Carbon City Study, along with case studies of several cities. On the call were senior experts from both China and Europe. The study is being jointly drafted by the IUC-Asia project and experts of China’s National Center for […]
The IUC Team visited the new pilot city of Panjin. The visit was coordinated by Panjin’s Development and Reform Commission (DRC) and involved the following field visits: Liaodong Bay New District and 2 joint venture petrochemical projects collaborated with European companies. Panjin Vocational and Technical College (PJVTC). PJVTC has been collaborating with AHK and GIZ […]
To follow up the Climate Action Plan (CAP) development , Makassar and IUC-Asia met online on Thursday 21 May 2020 to discuss the progress of the project. The interactive session focussed on the data collection to be used for the Green House Gases (GHG) inventory report and Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA). The Centre […]
Coordinated by the Metropolitan City of Bologna and by Guangzhou Development District (GDD), stakeholders from both sides discussed potential cooperation on industrial design. At the core of the online exchange was Bologna’s interest in promoting the internationalisation of the creative cluster of Reggio Emilia (CLUST-ER) and the University of Bologna’s industrial design areas. Marino Cavallo, […]
The IUC Asia, in partnership with the CCROM – IPB, conducted a capacity building workshop with Malang’s official agencies as part of its climate action plan development. The workshop was designed to provide the knowledge for developing a climate change adaptation plan, emphasizing climate risk and vulnerability assessments (CRVA). Symptoms of changing climate have implications […]
Following the EU cities’ missions to Liuzhou in June and September 2019, as well as Liuzhou visits to EU pilot cities, experts from both sides held today a virtual meeting to focus on Liudong New District as the pilot zone for EU-Liuzhou regional cooperation within the IUC framework. The interactive session focused on concrete projects […]
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 […]
Experts from the Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute (EIRI) at Tsinghua University and of two departments from Rome’s University Sapienza (CITERA – Interdepartmental Center for Territory, Building, Restoration, Environment and theDepartment of Planning, Design, and Technology of Architecture) held an online meeting to identify concrete research topics, potential financial sources and possible testbeds in cities. […]
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-Asia team today hosted experts from the CITERA Research Center of Sapienza University of Rome, Yantai University, Tuscia University and IoT Smart City Lab of Rome, who agreed on a research-based cooperation between Italy and China in terms of Cultural Heritage, Silver Economy, Digital Twin Design and innovation in Agriculture. Cooperating in terms of […]
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). A summary of the meeting […]
Experts from Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute (EIRI) at Tsinghua University, University Sapienza CITERA (Interdepartmental Center for Territory, Building, Restoration, Environment), Sapienza’s Department of Planning, Design, and Technology of Architecture, the Renewable Energy Association FREE and the IoT Smart City Lab of Rome held an online webinar to develop concrete research and start-up incubation activities […]
Experts from Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute (EIRI) at Tsinghua University, University Sapienza CITERA (Interdepartmental Center for Territory, Building, Restoration, Environment), Sapienza’s Department of Planning, Design, and Technology of Architecture, the Renewable Energy Association FREE and the IoT Smart City Lab of Rome held an online webinar to develop concrete research and start-up incubation activities […]
Experts from Europe and China held an online exchange on the regional innovation study being elaborated with the support of the EU and the NDRC. Amadeo Jensana, Director of Casa Asia in charge of the study elaboration, introduced with European and Chinese colleagues the state of art. Robert Hassink from Kiel University focused on the […]
The virtual meeting among Hang Tuah Jaya stakeholders, IUC Asia team and UTM took place on 08 May 2020. The meeting aimed to identify mitigation climate change projects that could be developed in Hang Tuah Jaya’s concept note for the GCoM Gap Fund. The project candidates have included carbon transport and energy efficiency, which are […]
Experts from Stuttgart Region and Nanjing Fair met online on Tuesday 05 May 2020 to develop a cooperation concept for industrial design, an area of interest for both sides. Margit Wolf, Project Manager for Creative Industries at Stuttgart Regional Economic Development Agency and Frieder Oesterle from Stuttgart Regional Association met with Oscar Prat from Nanjing […]
Representatives from Greater Manchester Authority joined an online exchange session with the IUC team and with Dr. Ronald Hall – senior advisor to DG REGIO – to reflect on the bilateral exchanges held in China and Europe in the last 12 months, focusing on the development of the Urban Cooperation Action Plans (UCAPs) and the […]
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. The GCoM and the German and Luxembourg […]
