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COVID-19 Response

How are local governments and partners responding to the COVID-19 pandemic? A round-up of regional reports from the ICLEI network.

Partnership during a pandemic: Insights from a resilience recovery guide
COVID-19 Response Resilient Development

Partnership during a pandemic: Insights from a resilience recovery guide

ByNazmul Huq February 9, 2022July 2, 2024

This article is written by Anina Hartung and Dr. Nazmul Huq from the ICLEI Global Resilient Development Team. It should…

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This is what leadership in an emergency looks like.
COVID-19 Response Daring Cities 2021 Global Advocacy

This is what leadership in an emergency looks like.

ByBraoin MacLauchlan October 7, 2021July 2, 2024

What does leadership in a climate emergency mean? Midway through Daring Cities 2021, this was the question occupying our panelists…

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How four cities are fostering equity-focused climate action
COVID-19 Response Equitable Development

How four cities are fostering equity-focused climate action

ByRebecca Wessinghage August 19, 2021June 28, 2024

Cities bring together all types of people into confined urban spaces, and they also reveal stark social inequalities. In dense…

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COVID-19 Response Japan Office

The 12th International Forum on Sustainable Asia-Pacific (ISAP2020)

By堀 裕子 November 6, 2020July 2, 2024

The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) will hold the 12th International Forum for Sustainable Asia and the Pacific [ISAP2020]…

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Climate Resilience Webinar Series Highlights Opportunities for Recovery in South Asia
COVID-19 Response South Asia

Climate Resilience Webinar Series Highlights Opportunities for Recovery in South Asia

BySubuhi Parvez August 28, 2020August 31, 2020

ICLEI South Asia and CDKN organised a series of webinars on climate resilience and its various aspects, including urban and…

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Sustainability and Local Governments in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
COVID-19 Response Exploring issues that matter

Sustainability and Local Governments in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic

ByGino Van Begin July 29, 2020August 4, 2021

Photo credit: The Paris Photographer The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the fragile economic, social and environmental underpinnings of our…

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Podcasts around pandemic: Insights from Indian states
COVID-19 Response South Asia

Podcasts around pandemic: Insights from Indian states

BySubuhi Parvez July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

Lessons from Maharashtra’s Battle with COVID-19 Dr. Ramnath Sonawane, Secretary, Maharashtra Water Resource Regulatory Authority, talks about how Maharashtra, an…

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What is the new normal? Challenges and opportunities beyond COVID-19
COVID-19 Response

What is the new normal? Challenges and opportunities beyond COVID-19

ByICLEI Network June 24, 2020July 2, 2024

Now, as we seem to have moved beyond the peak of the first large coronavirus/COVID-19 wave in Europe and the…

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Urban resilience: Learnings from COVID-19
COVID-19 Response South Asia

Urban resilience: Learnings from COVID-19

ByGuest Author June 19, 2020July 1, 2020

Written by Olga Chepelianskaia, international sustainability expert and Founder of UNICITI. Natural disasters, economic crises and viral outbreaks have greatly…

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COVID-19: How Indian cities can enhance the resiliency of the supply chain of essential goods
COVID-19 Response

COVID-19: How Indian cities can enhance the resiliency of the supply chain of essential goods

ByICLEI Network June 12, 2020July 2, 2024

Like never before, the crisis has unveiled how supply chains play a crucial role in responding to the disaster, essentially…

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‘Pandemic gives us window of opportunity to adopt sustainable adaptation practices’
COVID-19 Response South Asia

‘Pandemic gives us window of opportunity to adopt sustainable adaptation practices’

BySubuhi Parvez June 9, 2020June 30, 2020

Bangladesh lifted a national lockdown of more than two months on the 31st of May 2020, even though the number…

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Children, caregivers find life under lockdown a challenging experience
COVID-19 Response South Asia

Children, caregivers find life under lockdown a challenging experience

BySubuhi Parvez May 23, 2020June 30, 2020

India continues to be under a national lockdown that was imposed in the third week of March to curb the…

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