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 …
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 for the country, and if successful, it is likely to become the norm …
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 of forest land. It rejected plea of the user agencies to allow them to use the land for the proposed projects. The …
The NITI Aayog on December 19, 2018 released ‘Strategy for New India @75’, its comprehensive national Strategy for New India which defines clear objectives for 2022-23. The Strategy was released by the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. It is a detailed account across 41 crucial areas that recognises the progress …
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 living under the international poverty line in the African nation fell from 46.8 percent to 36.1 percent …
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 Advocate General submits that proposals have been made in respect of the integrated MSW treatment plant in question, and …
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 to improving regional resilience to climate change. The new initiative was launched on the sidelines of the Global Climate …
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 Congress on Roads, Amara said the investments devoted to roads have increased significantly during recent years. He noted …
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 10.11.2014, the applicant has challenged the order of Forest Clearance granted by the State of Chattisgarh on 23.05.2014 …
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 agreement for the second stage of infrastructure support with a total grant of $65m. The minister explained that the agreement included …
Vienna has dislodged Melbourne for the first time at the top of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index, strengthening the Austrian capital’s claim to being the world’s most pleasant city to live in. The two metropolises have been neck and neck in the annual survey of 140 urban centres …
International development finance institutions (DFIs) invested heavily in large-scale infrastructure projects that triggered significant deforestation in the Andes Amazon especially within the nations of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia between 2000 and 2015, according to recent research published by Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center. Using satellite data, the study analyzed …
Rwanda has officially joined Africa50, a Pan-African infrastructure platform that was created to bridge the infrastructure gap. The platform seeks to develop and invest in bankable projects, catalysing public sector capital, and mobilising private sector funding. Finance ministry's Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury, Caleb Rwamuganza, who signed Rwanda's …
The “land question” has invigorated agrarian studies and economic history since Marx and early 20th century writers on agrarian questions. In countries that allow private land ownership, compulsory land acquisition is the right and action of the government to take property not owned by it for public use. In the …
As countries integrate the SDGs into their domestic development priorities and plans, the value which South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSC/TrC) initiatives can potentially add to efforts intended to end poverty, achieve gender equality, and support sustained and inclusive economic growth seems to be widely underestimated. Similarly, the fact that many …
President Uhuru Kenyatta has been feted internationally for overseeing the evolution of some of the best mega plans in Africa. Projects such as the SGR, Outering Road and Dongo Kundu Bypass are among the best in the continent. Others such as the 505 km Isiolo-Marsabit Moyale highway has switched the …
Nairobi — President Uhuru Kenyatta today launched the reconstruction of roads in 11 constituencies in Nairobi's Eastlands. The program is part of the Nairobi Regeneration Program and its first phase will see the repair of more than 80 kilometres of roads in the city's populous Eastlands estates. The roads covered …
Ethiopia revealed its plan to meet the country's road network ambition of 200,000 km within the coming two years. The East African country is presently working to realize its road network infrastructure ambition of 200,000 km at the end of second five-year Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP-II), due effective from …
MUMBAI: The state environment department on Tuesday hiked fees for processing applications for securing environmental clearance. All applications are dealt with by the state experts' appraisal committee (SEAC) and state environment impact assessment authority (SEIAA); both have a separate chairman and members. So far, the chairman was given Rs 15,000 …
Mumbai: The State government has substantially increased the processing fee, effective Monday, for major infrastructure projects seeking environmental clearances. The 50% hike and over will be implemented in five categories. The hike is co-related to the cost of projects starting at ₹1 crore and reaching up to over ₹1,000 crore. …
The African Development Bank seeks investments from global pensions and commercial financiers to help fund the continent’s infrastructure gap of as much as $170 billion a year. The Abidjan-based lender is launching its Africa Investment Forum in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The forum will host its first meeting in November in …
