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 …
A plan to enlarge a two-lane highway into six prompts skepticism among locals. Experts say highway plans would endanger Palawan’s fragile forests, coral reefs and unique species. Observers believe corruption, not necessity, is behind the plan. Plans are underway for the construction of a massive superhighway on the highly biodiverse …
In May 2016, the then Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC;), Prakash Javadekar, announced that his Ministry had approved 2,000 projects in the two years of the Modi government. The Ministry had also brought down the time for environment project clearances to 190 days from the UPA regime’s …
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday rolled back rules regarding environmental reviews and restrictions on government-funded building projects in flood-prone areas as part of his proposal to spend $1 trillion to fix aging U.S. infrastructure. Trump's latest executive order would speed approvals of permits for highways, bridges, pipelines and other …
Bolivia has given the go ahead to a controversial highway which would cut through an Amazon biodiversity hotspot almost the size of Jamaica and home to 14,000 mostly indigenous people. President Evo Morales enacted the new law opening the way for the 190-mile (300km) road through the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous …
FG approves N99bn for infrastructure development in nine oil producing statesFG approves N99bn for infrastructure development in nine oil producing states The Federal Executive Council, FEC, presided over by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday approved N20.6 billion for the reconstruction of two road projects in Plateau and Kwara. The …
BANGKOK, July 31 (Reuters) - Up to 80 percent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said on Monday, more than a decade after the region was hit by a tsunami that killed 226,000 people. A 9.15 magnitude earthquake struck off …
South Africa needs to invest $464 billion (R6 trillion) by 2040 in the water and electricity sectors to plug its infrastructure investment gap and address economic and population growth between now and 2040. This was revealed in a G20 Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) report‚ covering infrastructure investment needs globally …
Brazilian dam, road and mine environmental impact assessments (EIAs) could be enhanced by satellite and DNA technology, improving biodiversity risk evaluations. Amazon infrastructure EIAs under-assess biodiversity; scientists offer solutions In a new paper, scientists assert that environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for major Brazilian Amazon infrastructure projects often fail in their …
On a continent better known for enriching colonisers and corporations by exporting its gold, copper and diamonds, so-called "development minerals" - ranging from limestone to granite - could help Africa fuel its own economic growth. The sector, estimated by the United Nations to employ at least 8 million Africans, could …
Land acquisition for development project is not a new topic of discussion at least in a developing nation as ours. In recent times, we happened to have witnessed a wide range of protests and chaos relating to land issues in the country. Land is needed for industrialisation, which is the …
Entebbe — Uganda needs to mobilise an extra Shs418 billion to effectively finance the management and conservation of its animal and plant species whose habitats are under threat by economic activities including agriculture and infrastructure developments. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Director Almaz Gebru said Uganda spends approximately …
LUSAKA Province Minister Japhen Mwakalombe says Cabinet has approved a K247 million master plan for infrastructure development to decongest the capital city. And Mr Mwakalombe has described proposals by some sections of society that the capital city should be relocated from Lusaka to another town as baseless. The minister, who …
The present Statistical Abstract 2016 is the Eighth in the series brought out by this Directorate on the basis of secondary data sources. The uniqueness of Statistical Abstract is that it contains time series data on various socio-economic parameters and serves as an effective quantitative tool for reaching to logical …
Implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on Financing for Development has begun in earnest. The 2017 report of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, itself an outcome of the Addis Ababa Conference, provides a first assessment of progress in implementing …
Tackling climate change could boost the world's 20 biggest economies by nearly 5 percent in 2050, compared to a continuation of current policies, the Paris-based OECD said on Tuesday. Investing $6.9 trillion per year in clean infrastructure between 2016 and 2030 in G20 countries would help limit global temperature rise …
KAMPALA, UGANDA - Emmanuel Mpaka lives in Bukasa at the edge of Lake Victoria and has done so since 2011. He has built a house and a business there - a drinks bar that does well in the dry seasons. Now the government says he must move. Mpaka and more …
The African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) will invest up to $500 million in Gambia, its president said, an economic boost to the impoverished West African country ostracized by investors under former president Yahya Jammeh. The money will go towards tourism, infrastructure and agriculture in the tiny riverside country of about …
Low energy supply, complete with shortages, high costs and poor access, remains major impediments to Africa’s social and economic progress. The African Union’s Agenda 2063 commits to fast-tracking modern, efficient, reliable and cost effective renewable energy for all households, businesses, industries and institutions. To support this, in 2016, the African …
Public transport confronts many challenges in South Africa. The majority of workers and the poor still live in displaced, dormitory townships distant from places of work and other amenities. As a result, the cost of mobility and time spent commuting between home and workplace is draining and difficult to sustain. …
Kenya has been listed among 30 nuclear electricity newcomer countries that will benefit from a Sh380 million infrastructure development kitty. This is under the recently signed agreement between International Atomic Energy Agency and Rosatom. IAEA is an international organisation that serves as an intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation …
