The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
This report documents how efficient land use planning can improve household resilience to rising oil prices by enhancing travel choices; how allowing more people to live closer to job centers can boost employment rates and income levels for low-wage workers while reducing exposure to congestion for all; and how smart …
Citizens, governments and the United Nations increasingly are embracing a new paradigm for development: the Green Economy. Proponents seek to develop their economies along pathways of higher, more equitable growth at lower carbon, energy and resource intensity. The Green Economy is pro-growth and pro-jobs, as well as pro-environment.
Under the Public Private Partnership(PPP) mode, 17 infrastructure development projects have been completed in Madhya Pradesh. Besides, 21 projects of Rs 5494crore are under construction while 19 projects to the tune of Rs 3070 crore are in the pipeline. There is a target to implement PPP mode projects worth Rs …
The Asian Development Bank has kickstarted the Assam Urban Infrastructure Project and identified two towns, Guwahati and Dibrugarh, for assistance. Sources said the idea behind the starting the proposed project was to provide a good opportunity for the Assam government and ADB to start a long-term strategic urban development partnership, …
The minutes of a crucial meeting held at the Union environment ministry just before the issue of the show cause notice to Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society in Colaba point to the key role played by the Maharashtra urban development department in allowing the scam to take place. At the meeting, …
Acknowledging that the two-phased Ganga Action, which started in 1985, has failed to have the desired effect in checking river pollution, the Centre has informed the Supreme Court that the National Ganga River Basin Authority, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, recently decided that by 2020 no untreated municipal sewage …
Sustainable and resilient cities should be focus of urban development INFORMATIVE:D.B. Raju (right), Executive Vice President, Larsen and Toubro, presenting a souvenir to Karumuttu T.Kannan, Chairman and Correspondent, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, in MADURAI: An international conference here on Wednesday called for making the Indian cities
Deepa Jainani Posted: Wednesday, Dec 15, 2010 at 0042 hrs IST Tags: Noida Realty | Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority | Yamuna Expressway New Policy | UP Govt | Noida Urban Zone Comments Email print Financial Express Facebook Twitter more In an out of-the-box way of policy-making which creates an …
Frank Lloyd Wright, the American architect, once said that to look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of fibrous tumour. It is probably an apt description of how India
Development in eco zones banned Assuring that losers of land for government projects would be suitably compensated, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said that the State
NAGPUR/MUMBAI: While the MMRDA pushes for the third Metro line from Colaba to Bandra, there is some uncertainty over the issue of availability of land at the racecourse for the project. What adds to the problem is that environmental clearances have not been obtained. "The land for building the car …
Chaos in Jorhat town is a common picture during the last few years. Once a planned town Jorhat has now turned out to be a haphazard mix of residential, industrial and commercial zones herein. It is because of the lack of implementation of a new master plan since the last …
Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and urban development minister S. Jaipal Reddy on Friday had pointed exchange of views on the issue of providing funding for the UD ministry
EVER-increasing demand for skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled workers in urban areas, availability of basic amenities, societal behaviour change for urban life, high paid jobs in IT, manufacturing and service sector trigger largescale migration of people to urban centers. As per the 2001 Census, 42.58 million Indians live in nearly 3,700 …
This new UN report focuses on the current issues and challenges which national and local governments, the business sector and organised civil society are facing. It highlights several critical issues – demographic and economic trends, poverty and inequality, the environment, climate change and urban governance and management. The report throws …
The objective of this publication is to highlight the global and regional trends in urban development, identify key issues, projected risks, impacts and opportunities in the light of climate change through case study examples from cities in India and throughout the world. The six chapters include the following: introduction; integrated …
This issue of the Water Resources Series presents an analysis of studies and collaborative work undertaken by ESCAP with national research units and individual experts on developing frameworks for flood management in Asian and Pacific cities. This report consists of four sections: An overview of issues and challenges in managing …
The key objective of the CDP is to formulate a development strategy for meeting emerging challenges of infrastructure and create enabling environment for the growth of economy. The CDP of Shimla attempts to highlight the role of each and every sector of development in bringing economic benefits to the region …
This report outlines how residents of cities are responsible for as much as 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions while at the same time facing significant impacts from climate change. It says that up to 80 percent of the expected $80 billion to $100 billion per year in climate change …
