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 …
BEIJING - The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council released a poverty alleviation instruction on Monday. The document followed a high-profile conference on the issue in Beijing late in November, during which the leadership pledged measures to help lift the country's remaining 70 million poor …
The first annual publication by the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance which identifies the gap between the current levels of investment in low-emission, climate resilient urban infrastructure and the volumes required to ensure a the world is on track to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees. The report also …
Over the past four decades, bicycle ownership has been documented in various countries but not globally analyzed. This paper presents an effort to fill this gap by tracking household bicycle possession. First, we gather survey data from 150 countries and extract percentage household bicycle ownership values. Performing cluster analysis, we …
The Potential Linked Credit Plan for 2016-17 prepared by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has assessed the credit potential for the district at Rs.4998.15 crore, a projected growth of 27 per cent more than the projections for the current year. At the district consultative committee meeting …
Part of the PMC’s plan to involve experts was also to undertake beautification of the riverfront. Elected representatives have expressed reluctance to give the go-ahead to the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) plan to rope in experts in planning civic infrastructure for developing cycle track networks across the city unless the …
THE Second global High-level Conference on Road Safety recently held in Brazil has declared that human suffering from road traffic accidents is estimated at US$1,850 billion per year, hence the need to consider the matter an urgent development priority. The Brasilia Declaration from the just-ended conference indicates road crashes are …
Global emissions scenarios studies, such as those informing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment Report (AR5), highlight the importance of the transport sector for climate change mitigation—along with the difficulties of achieving deep reductions therein (1) [supplementary materials (SM)]. Transport is responsible for about 23% of total …
BHUBANESWAR: Steel major Tata Steel commissioned its much-hyped integrated steel plant at Kalinganagar Industrial Complex in Jajpur district of Odisha on Wednesday. The six million tonne per annum (MTPA) plant aimed to expand its capacity to 16 mtpa with an investment of Rs one lakh crore by 2025. With this …
With the Bihar verdict not going in the BJP-led NDA’s favour, the road for the much delayed legislation only gets tougher from here. While finance minister Arun Jaitley has exuded hope that the NDA government would be able to build fresh consensus on amending the controversial Land Acquisition legislation and …
The AP Forest Department is racing against time to plug the gaps in its bid to secure denotification of 19,000 hectares of reserve forest land in Krishna and Guntur districts so that it can be used for the Amaravati capital city project. “The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has …
The Prime minister, Narendra Modi today laid the foundation stone of 341 km long three highway projects costing Rs 13,802 crore at Sonipat in Haryana. These include the Western Peripheral expressway (136 kms) worth Rs 4,115 crore, a project which will be six-laned instead of earlier proposed four-laned; Eastern Peripheral …
Officials Say Works Delayed, Should Only Report Numbers To Forest Dept The public works department has moved the government with a plea that it should be made exempt from applying for tree cutting permission for projects. Citing delay in projects due to first having to apply to the forest department …
Categorizing the choices in coastal infrastructure that are available to policy makers will allow for comparisons of their potential impacts on ecosystems and of their value in preparation for long-term sea-level rise. Although similar approaches have been described elsewhere in different policy contexts, this article focuses on evaluating physical infrastructure …
Nigeria plans to set up a $25 billion infrastructure fund to invest in the transport and energy sectors in Africa's most populous nation, a spokesman for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said on Thursday. Laolu Akande said money for the planned fund would come from local and international sources including Nigeria's …
Corporation pins hopes on AMRUT to develop parks, skywalks Owing to fewer funding options, the Chennai Corporation is set to try its luck on AMRUT Mission for developing parks and skywalks. “Tentative projects to be taken up under AMRUT include formation of 153 parks at an estimated cost of 120.67 …
Besides infrastructure development and mineral resources, Africa holds immense potential as a credible nuclear energy supplier as well, the study says Africa can be the answer to India’s rising energy demands, according to a study jointly done by KPMG and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Besides infrastructure development and mineral …
Hyderabad: The Environmental Clearance (EC) that was recently accorded for Amaravati’s Area Development Plan has more than 90 conditions to be fulfilled as laid down by the State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA). A team of 14 professors with expertise in various fields from different universities of AP came up …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Manoj Kumar Mishra Vs. NCT of Delhi & Ors dated 26/10/2015 regarding third phase of Barapullah elevated road, Delhi. There shall be no construction activity of the Barapulla, Phase-III without obtaining prior Environmental Clearance.
To meet 80% of project cost if India buys 30% of equipment from Japanese firms Japan offers India soft loan for $15 bn bullet train in edge over China Japan has offered to finance India’s first bullet train, estimated to cost $15 billion, at an interest rate of less than …
MARGAO: The United Goans Foundation has demanded the immediate withdrawal of Ordinance approved by Goa State Cabinet permitting eco-friendly and agro projects in “Eco-Sensitive Zones” (ESZ). Terming the whole exercise an anti-environment, UGF has called this as a State sponsored attack on Goa’s fragile eco-sensitive zones. “So far TCP Act …
