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IUC Team participates at UNESCAP Meeting on “Response and Recovery: Asia-Pacific Cities on the Front Lines of COVID-19′

The IUC team participated in the experts meeting that aimed to identify and discuss sustainable approaches to support Asia-Pacific cities to build back better from COVID-19. The meeting featured around 50 participants from Asia-Pacific states, cities, stakeholders, development partners and experts.  The interactive discussion provided inputs to the development of a new ESCAP discussion paper [...]

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Indonesia: Palembang Continues Efforts to Develop Climate Action Plan during the COVID-19 Pandemic

On 14 – 15 April 2020, the IUC Asia programme held several consultation meetings with Palembang city to support the development of the city’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). Hosted by Environmental Agency, the meetings were attended by various city agencies of Palembang related to climate action, namely the Planning Agency, the Agriculture Agency, the Public [...]

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EU Cities and Liuzhou Online Exchange on Implications of COVID-19 for Urban Policy Makers & IUC Pilot Projects

Brussels, 9 April 2020: The IUC-Asia organised a live video discussion today between its programme pilot cities from Europe and China, as part of the new online series of thematic discussion rounds. On the call from the EU were experts from Barcelona, Granada, Rome, Bologna, Stuttgart, Nice, Mannheim and Greater Manchester. Joining the call from [...]

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EU Cities and Liuzhou Online Exchange on Implications for Urban Policy Makers due to COVID-19

  Brussels, 9 April 2020: The IUC-Asia organised a live video discussion today between its programme pilot cities from Europe and China, as part of the new online series of thematic discussion rounds. On the call from the EU were experts from Barcelona, Granada, Rome, Bologna, Stuttgart, Nice, Mannheim and Greater Manchester. Joining the call [...]

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IUC-GCoM Publication on Climate Action Support to Cities in South East Asia

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IUC Asia December 2020 Newsletter available

The latest edition of IUC Asia’s December newsletter covering the programme’s component 1 has just been released. This component encompasses the EU-China cooperation on sustainable and innovative cities. The newsletter begins with how, in spite of the challenges faced with meetings during the COVID pandemic, the work of the IUC Asia has continued unabated, holding [...]

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EU-China Regional Innovation Joint Study

The IUC Asia programme has just released its EU-China Regional Innovation Joint Study. The aim of this study is to compare the European and Chinese approaches to regional innovation carrying out a comparative analysis at a general level and also analysing six best practices of regions/ provinces in China and the EU. It seeks to [...]

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Vietnam: final webinar on IUC technical assistance for development of Climate Action Plans

Today the IUC Asia programme held its final webinar on climate action planning at the local level in Vietnam. Since February 2020, the IUC Asia programme of the European Union has been providing technical assistance and support to three pilot cities in Vietnam (Can Tho, Da Nang, Tam Ky) for the development of their Climate [...]

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Global Covenant of Mayors Cross-Regional City Exchange

Today the EU Covenant of Mayors (CoM) Office, in collaboration with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Energy and Climate (GCoM) Secretariat, held a meeting with the aim of fostering dialogue and exchange of good practices among GCoM signatories across the world. The event took place online, split into two online sessions with different timings, [...]

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IUC’s 4th annual City-to-City Event

Today the IUC held its 4th (and final) City-to-City Event, reflecting on the progress made by the programme as a whole, which involved 166 participants from cities and regions across the globe. The conference provided an opportunity to celebrate successes, understand challenges faced and collectively discover solutions to overcome them. It gathered all experts involved [...]

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Korea: DG ENER and IUC Team Participate in 3rd International Forum on Renewable Energy

Today, the Directorate-General for Energy of the European Commission (ENER) and the IUC Asia team participated in the 3rd International Forum on Renewable Energy, on the topic of Green Energy and New-Deal Industry of Gwangju and Jeonnam (Gwangju Metropolitan City and Jeonnam Province, Republic of Korea). The hosts of the hybrid online and offline conference [...]

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Indonesia: Closing Workshop on Technical Assistance for Climate-Action-Plans Development

Today, the IUC Asia project held its final webinar on Technical Assistance on Climate-Action-Plans Development in Indonesia with more than 125 participants. In discussion were the so called “final products”, the Climate Action Plans and respective lessons learned during the process of developing them for the pilot cities of Palembang, Denpasar, Depok, Malang and Makassar. [...]

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IUC Participates at EU Webinar on Regional Innovation

Supporting the Directorate-General Regional and Urban Policy (REGIO),  the IUC team co-organised today an online workshop on regional innovation. Around 50 participants joined the event that focused on the concept of smart specialisation as a means of improving investment in regional development. Dr. Rudolf Niessler – Principal Advisor at DG REGIO – stated that over [...]

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IUC Participates at EU Webinar on City-to-City Cooperation

The IUC team co-organised the webinar “International cooperation for innovation in urban development policy and practice: results and perspectives from EU – Asia Cooperation“. The event – which involved over 60 experts from Europe and Asia – was held within the European Week of Regions and Cities, the EU Commission’s flagship annual event on urban [...]

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EU participates at Euro-China Smart Cities Seminar in Chongqing

The European Union participated today at the workshop “EURO-CHINA Smart Cities, Facing COVID-19” held in Chongqing, China. The EU was represented by Ambassador Nicolas Chapuis, Head of the EU Delegation to China, as well as by Dr. Rudolf Niessler, Principal Advisor at DG REGIO of the European Commission. At the event, the European pilot cities [...]

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Malaysia – final stakeholder consultation with Malaysian cities on circular economy

Today the IUC Asia held its final stakeholder consultations webinar on Designing Circular Cities in Malaysia. On the call were 82 experts from the EU and Malaysia, comprised of representatives from government, private sector, research and civil society. Experts exchanged views on circular economy challenges and solutions identified in the previous online sessions. They explored [...]

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Mission to Chongqing Consolidates Various Cooperation with European Cities 

The IUC-Asia Team participated in several meetings with the Chongqing Development and Reform Commission (DRC) as well as with the Management Committee of the Liangjiang New District. The team visited the planned representation office for Mannheim, which has been offered by the Chongqing Lianjiang New District in order to boost the mutual cooperation in connectivity, [...]

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Global Covenant of Mayors – Regional Exchange Call on Green Recovery

The IUC team participated in today’s regional exchange on the green recovery organised by the GCoM Secretariat. The event was opened by Gregor Robertson (Mayor of Vancouver and GCoM Global Ambassador) and included presentations by the City of Seoul, the Cities Climate Leadership Alliance, and the GCoM communications experts. While cities have been among the [...]

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Mannheim and Chongqing Online Meeting on Bilateral Cooperation

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Mid-term monitoring of IUC technical assistance on CAPs development in 13 pilot cities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam

Today the IUC-Asia held its important mid-term meeting on monitoring technical assistance of Climate Action Plans (CAPs) development in 13 pilot cities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. The meeting was a chance to take stock with the line directorates of the European Commission (CLIMA / ENER / FPI / JRC), the EU Delegations to the [...]

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Palembang Engages the Private Sectors to Develop City’s Climate Action Plan

The private sector plays a critical role in translating the commitments of the Paris Agreement into tangible action in the real economy, whether it’s providing clean energy, enhancing adaptive capacity throughout their supply chain, or enabling broader societal resilience in the communities from which they derive their social license to operate. Private sectors offer innovation [...]

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Korea – IUC participates at GCoM Stakeholders Call

The IUC project participated in a stakeholders’ call of the Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM) organised by ICLEI Korea, which holds the national GCoM Secretariat. At the event the projet team, presented a progress report on the IUC support to the GCoM implementation in Korea. This can be summarised as: Current Status (April 2020) Successfully [...]

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Circular Economy: Sharing Experiences and Best Practices

Online Webinar, 2 April 2020: The IUC-Asia organised an online video discussion today in cooperation with the Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) and the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Attending the call were 44 experts from cities in Europe and Asia, sharing experiences and best practices with regards to circular economies. The IUC-Asia team moderated the [...]

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Resources

Corona Crisis – Reference Material from Urban Management Perspective EU Commission: The Coronavirus Response EU Urban Agenda_orientation_paper_security_in_public_spaces_public DG EUROPEAN CIVIL PROTECTION AND HUMANITARIAN AID OPERATIONS Live updates COVID-19 (Eurocities) Social Distancing Scoreboard COVID-19: Local Action Tracker 2020 COVID-19 MITIGATION ROADMAP (US) UNESCAP Webinar: Managing COVID-19 Pandemic – Experiences & Best Practices of China, Japan and [...]

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