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India’s “smart cities” would be stupid without disaster strategy

After Cyclone Hudhud pounded India?s southern port city of Visakhapatnam last October, snapping bridges, swamping farmland and wrecking fishing boats, many breathed a sigh ...

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Environment

India eyes financial support from developed nations

India is concentrating its efforts on ensuring that rich industrialized countries provide predictable and adequate finance and technology to developing countries to tackle ...

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Sustainable Development

How does India’s Budget fare on sustainable development?

India’s new government, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announced its first annual Union Budget on Saturday. The budget was hailed as pro-poor and pro-growth, bu...

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Sustainable Development

13 steps towards ending poverty and climate change

With the sustainable development goals and a climate deal coming up this year our panel say how to make the most of this once-in-a-generation opportunity Start by asking th...

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Sustainable Development

Indian state utility NTPC given green light for 15 GW solar plan

India’s union cabinet approved on Wednesday a proposal from state utility NTPC Ltd to develop 15 GW of grid-connected solar PV projects in the country. The proposal w...

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Sustainable Development

Defining sustainable development: The woman who started it all

Ahead of the Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum (MIECF), keynote speaker Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, Special Envoy on Climate Change for the UN, looks back ...

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Sustainable Development

Designing a Sustainable Financial System for India

FICCI-UNEP Inquiry released an Interim Report on “Designing a Sustainable Financial System for India”. The report proposes key recommendations on designing the ...

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Environment

Citigroup Committing $100 Billion To Fight Climate Change

Megabank Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) has had a lot of bad PR in the last few years, most of it well-deserved. That said, it should be noted that the oft-criticized financial ti...

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Environment

Ensure resources to developing nations on climate change: India

As the global community readies to adopt an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, India has highlighted the importance of ensuring enhanced resources to developing countr...

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Sustainable Development

CAN MOBILE BANKING REVOLUTIONIZE THE LIVES OF THE POOR?

IN THE VILLAGE OF Sori along the banks of Kenya’s Lake Victoria, fishing has long been the lynchpin of the local economy. Jobs here are largely divided by gender: men...

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