Climate-resilient Infrastructure
Infrastructure networks will be affected by the physical impacts of climate variability and change, but will also play an essential role in building resilience to those impacts. Extreme events illustrate
Infrastructure Development
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Jaipur to build 3D model of city for better management, civic planning
The city of Jaipur is cloning itself. Not a brick and mortar clone, but a virtual one — built to scale and faithfully representing all the urban and architectural features of the real city. It’s a first
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Eight Amaravati projects denied nod
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the environment ministry has declined clearance to eight infrastructure proposals for the capital region of Amaravati in Andhra Pradesh, involving 3,306 hectares
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Kenya lifts millions from poverty over past decade: World Bank
The number of Kenyans living below the poverty line has significantly fallen over the past decade, though regional disparities remain, the World Bank said in a report Tuesday. The share of the population
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding garbage dumping in Deepor Beel, Kamrup District, Assam, 08/10/2018
<p>Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rohit Choudhury Vs Union of India & Others dated 08/10/2018 regarding garbage dumping in Deepor Beel, Kamrup District, Assam. Senior Additional
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Cities & Finance Combine To Strengthen Climate Change Investment In Africa, Asia, & Latin America
A new pilot initiative, the Global Climate City Challenge, will seek to address technical preparation and financing for cities across the world to strengthen investment in green projects and programs essential
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Morocco to spend nearly 3 bln USD to develop roads
The Moroccan government will spend 2.99 billion U.S. dollars from 2018 to 2021 to develop its roads, Minister of Equipment and Transport Abdelkader Amara said on Monday. Speaking during the 10th National
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Judgement of the National Green Tribunal regarding diversion of forest land for construction of Dalli-Rajhara –Rawghat Railway Line, Chhattisgarh, 14/09/2018
<p>Judgement of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hira Singh Markam & Others Vs Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change & Others dated 14/09/2018. In this Appeal filed on
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$65m US grant for infrastructure development in seven provinces of Upper Egypt
Egypt’s Minister of Investment and International Cooperation Sahar Nasr, signed on Monday with the director of the United Sates Agency for International Development (USAID) in Egypt, Sherry Carlin, an
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Scaling up investment for sustainable urban infrastructure: a systematic approach to urban finance reform for national governments
This paper offers a practical framework and guidance to support national economic decision-makers to plug the global financing gap and tap into the over $100 trillion in private assets currently held by