Climate finance committed by major multilateral development banks (MDBs) rose by more than 24% last year compared to 2020, according to this 2021 Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance. The 2021 total financing by MDBs already surpassed the 2025 climate finance goals set at the 2019 United Nations …
Losses from Hurricane Irene are estimated to total about $7 billion, much less than what was feared from the massive storm that battered the US East Coast over the week-end, initial estimates say. The total damage by Irene may reach $7 billion by the time the storm tapers in the …
The death toll in the US from hurricane Irene has risen to 21 as the President, Mr Barack Obama, today warned Americans that their ordeal is not yet over as it may take weeks for the recovery from devastation caused by the storm throughout the East Coast. “I want people …
The strongest quake to strike the eastern America in more than a century has rattled offices in the US capital, forcing authorities to evacuate buildings as far as New York and shut down two nuclear power plants. The Indian Embassy, the Pentagon and the US capital were among the well-known …
New York's natural gas drillers should pay into a fund to cover any cleanups or accidents, the state comptroller said on Tuesday, ahead of the state's plan to review drilling applications next year. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, in a statement, said his proposed legislation would apply to current drilling operations and …
The fifth New York City solar summit unveiled a feature that could well be a trend setter the world over. Mapping renewable energy, in this case solar, is likely to be a reality soon.
Urban areas are responsible for significant amounts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but cities can have quite different values of carbon footprints. The purpose of this paper is to identify the determinants of urban GHG emissions in order to explain these differences. Seven global cities – Bangkok, Chicago, London, Madrid, …
Among the greatest challenges to the goals of fishable and swimmable waters are discharges and overflows of raw sewage into waters. Many of the sewer systems in New York State and New Jersey and some in Puerto Rico are combined systems that carry sewage from homes and businesses as well …
The relationship between traffic emissions and mobile-source air pollutant concentrations is highly variable over space and time and therefore difficult to model accurately, especially in urban settings with complex terrain. Regression-based approaches using continuous real-time mobile measurements may be able to characterize spatiotemporal variability in traffic-related pollutant concentrations but require …
Lawmakers continue to call for the closure of a nuclear power plant less than 50 miles from New York City, despite the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission vouching for the plant's safety on a tour on Tuesday. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko was unable to allay long-held …
A DISPUTE has erupted on the streets of New York. It is about the streets themselves. Bike lanes, to be precise. A bike lane was installed in Brook-lyn area on residents’ request in 2010. But on March 7 this year a section of the residents filed a lawsuit in a …
They dangle from the arms of many New Yorkers, a nearly ubiquitous emblem of empathy with the environment: synthetic, reusable grocery bags, another must-have accessory for the socially conscious. But the bags, hot items at upscale markets, may be on the verge of a glacier-size public relations problem: similar bags …
New York City wants to catch and store rainwater temporarily in new roof systems to stop heavy storms sending sewage spilling into city waterways. The catchment systems would consist of "blue" roofs that have a series of drainage pools and "green" or grass- or ivy-covered roofs, under a plan unveiled …
Some were more than a century old but still sturdy and doing their jobs. Many others were young and willowy, just getting going. Some of them were inscrutable; no one truly knew them or how they got there. But others felt like old friends. They were wonderful for their blissful …
Cities all over the world are checking car population to free their road space. Anumita Roychowdhury finds out where India is headed LONDONIt's just too expensive to driveAndrew Parker, a business consultant in London, had enough of crawling down the choked roads in his car. When it seemed that things …
Cities all over the world are trying to ease congestion on roads. Not the chocked Indian cities, through. Time to make cars in India pay the real cost of using roads.
Patrick McGeehanNEW PLANS:So far, there haven't been large-scale efforts to harness the wind in the cityFor years, New York officials have envisioned powering the region from a set of huge wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean off Long Island. But well before an offshore wind farm would be up and …
Climate change will impact water supplies, exacerbating existing pressures on water resources caused by population and economic growth. Given the combination of these stressors, the sustainability of water resources in future decades is a concern in many parts of the world. This study presents an integration of water withdrawal projections …
