Bogor is a city in Indonesia facing development problems like many developing countries. However, facing an increase in the city's inhabitants, Bogor needs to adapt to integrate them while reducing the ecological impact that it generates. 

With the help of organizations such as Urban-LEDS, it aims to be more sustainable and decrease its polluting emissions. Bogor serves as the model city in Indonesia to promote the project.

Bogor City has shared nine key initiatives in low-carbon emissions and innovations, including:

1) Accomplishing climate risk and vulnerability assessment (CRVA) for 2021-2050;

2) Allocating 7.3% of the 2019 local budget to support climate change mitigation and adaptation plans;

3) Issuing 24 local regulations along with 27 mayors' regulations;

4) Collaborating with development partners at different levels to maintain the city's network in the future;

5) Directing climate change mitigation towards four dimensions: energy preservation, land use optimization, waste management and health improvement.

The city also wants to focus on four dimensions:

1) Energy preservation: rerouting city transportation, increasing pedestrians and bicycle lanes, and green transportation.

An initiative that can drastically reduce emissions is the implementation of a tramway in the city and connecting more easily to Jakarta.

Indeed, daily, 1.37 million workers commute to Jakarta. It will decrease the traffic jam, the utilization of the car and though, the emission.

In addition, parking will be created around the station to be easily reachable. 

2) Land-use optimization: increasing the green open spaces through urban farming, sustainable agriculture, redistributing the space functions, thematic village, and plantation of trees in strategic lands.  

3) Waste management: addressing the problem of marine debris in Indonesia, the government's goal for the city is to become plastic-free by 2040. Bogor tends to incorporate the 3R principles: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

4) Improve population's health by controlling infectious diseases, eradicating dengue disease, applying smoke-free areas, and implementing a point-of-sale tobacco display ban.  

Most of the projects are still in progress, such as implementing the tramway. This project should be finalized in 2024.

On the other hand, waste management has improved: more details are provided in the case study “Bogor vs waste: the battle for sustainability”.

Bogor has inspired other cities to react and shared its experience at the Seoul mayors Forum on Climate Change (SMFCC) in 2019. As a result, Bogor is now considered a model city for the Urban-LEDS II project and works continuously with ICLEI. 

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