Environment/Climate change
Capacity Building Project
The City of Växjö, Sweden, and the An Giang Province, Vietnam, is having a cooperation about sharing knowledge, competence and experience related to environmental issues and sustainable development. This two-year project, called Capacity Building, is targeting the areas of public ownership, transparency, climate and environment, waste and financing of projects.
Piteå and An Giang – Sustainable Municipalities
The project is focusing on development of a strategy program for waste to energy, focusing on rice waste to energy which would be carried out during a time span of three years. Rice straw and rice husk are a potential natural biomass source for energy production. As of now, only a small part of rice…
Waste management – as means to increase local democracy and citizen’s influence
The overall objective of the project is to increase the level of local democracy and citizen’s possibilities to influence a sustainable development in Sarajevo Canton by providing a coherent waste management system. The project objective is to contribute to the development of a sustainable waste management system in Sarajevo Canton, where the Canton provides necessary…
LuMa Sustainable Energy
Malmö and Lusaka both have an interest in increasing the capacity of municipalities to tackle the effects of an unsustainable energy use: alternatives to charcoal in Lusaka and energy efficiency in Malmo. These are complex issues, related to all three dimensions of sustainable development, which will require a high degree of citizen participation in order…
Keep Mwanga Clean
Arvidsjaur should see their role in the project as a contribution to the international development work that will promote their own department and employees, and jointly with Mwanga develop and produce: Models and systems for recycling in the central towns and larger villages and communal areas kind marketplaces and route sales Models for the general…
Sustainable Management of Waste and Energy
In April 2007, a joint agreement on friendly co-operation between the cities Xi´an in China and Umeå in Sweden was signed. The agreement focuses on three areas: Culture, Biotech and Energy and environmental technologies. Xi’an is the capital city of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, and the typical features of Xi’an region include relatively high proportion…
Solid Waste Recycling
Waste management is a significant environmental issue in both Åmål and Manafwa, the dissemination of knowledge and understanding are major challenges. This area is a priority and the dissemination has been planned to occur in all ages and groups, but has been started with students in primary schools. The aim is to spread knowledge to…
Alfred Nzo Waste Buy-back center
Objectives of the project are: to address and eradicate waste related issues within the Alfred Nzo District to raise awareness about waste management to encourage members of the communities within ANDM to clean-up their villages to create job opportunities for Alfred Nzo community members through waste collection. Expected results: Alfred Nzo District is expected to…
Gaborone Transfer and Recycling Station
The overall objective is a more efficient waste management in Gaborone in terms of social, environmental and economic sustainability, and a strengthened legitimacy for local democracy when the elected City Council is more reliable in providing waste management services for the citizens. Through sound resource handling, a recycling and transfer station will help mitigate climate…
Storm Water Management
The overall objective of the project, Storm Water Management, is to increase the ecological and chemical status of lakes and watercourses in Vara and Huangshan. The project will run for two years, during that time the project objective will be met. The project objective is formulated as follows: To create a policy for storm water…
