Global State of National Urban Policy 2024
<p>With global population increasingly concentrating in urban areas, cities are driving national economic growth, while also grappling with challenges such as inequalities, affordable housing shortages,
Urbanisation
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Is it time for Asia to abandon the dream of an effective multilateral climate treaty and adopt new approach?
<p><em>For growing economies the stress has to be on patterns of natural resource use and not on the status of natural resources; that is, dealing with the causes rather than the symptoms of the problem
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India’s Climate Policy Dilemma
Is climate change a sustainable development or an environmental challenge? The statement by the Minister for Environment and Forests that the European Union’s aviation tax will be a “deal breaker” is
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Ministry of Urban Development
The Ministry of Urban Development & the Ministry of Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation are the apex authority of Government of India at the national level to formulate policies, sponsor and support programme, coordinate the activities of various Central Ministries, State Governments and other nodal authorities and monitor the programmes concerning all the issues of urban development and hous
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Global sustainable development goals: Sustainability is about the use, Distribution and scarcity of natural resources - Eradicating poverty and saving the climate
<p>With relations between countries now being shaped by geo-economics rather than geo-politics, an emerging issue is to what extent the United States, China and India, all populous countries and top tier
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Warsaw paves the way for apportioning the carbon budget based on use and distribution, not scarcity
<p>Since all Parties are now going make “nationally determined contributions” towards mitigating climate change they will do so under Article 4.1 of the Convention, and the issue to be decided,
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Institute for Social and Environmental Transition-Nepal
ISET's work focuses on understanding social and environmental change processes, including climate change and urbanization, and supporting adaptive responses to the fundamental challenges such processes
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3 day Training Programme on Policy, Planning and Design for Sustainable Mobility
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is offering a three-day training programme to sensitise young professionals and students on urban design planning and policy interventions for sustainable transport required to make our cities liveable.
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Decoding climate change risks
<p><strong><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px;" /></strong></p> <p><strong>Small changes in urban human behavior
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2nd International Conference Improving Water Use Efficiency in the Urban Sector Climate Change, 14 November 2014, New Delhi, India
The world is becoming increasingly urbanised with majority of the population residing and working in cities. While increasing urbanisation and economic growth can provide significant benefits, they also
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Climate change: an opportunity for leadership by the BRICS
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/msanwal_blog.jpg" style="width: 600px; height: 117px; float: left;" /></p> <p> </p> <p>Compromises have to be made