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8 Aug 16
Collaboration both within and outside of government is crucial to successfully building a smart city, the Inter-American Development Bank has stressed.
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21 Jul 16
The European Commission’s lax supervision over the biofuels used by member states risks undermining the European Union’s 2020 targets on renewable transport energy, the European Court of Auditors has...
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23 May 16
Sustainable urbanisation will be key to Africa’s economic success going forward, the OECD has said.
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20 May 16
The World Bank has approved another $25m in funding for a controversial land allocation project linked to forced evictions of impoverished people in Cambodia.
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16 May 16
Solar power in India is to get a $625m World Bank boost, enabling widespread installation of solar panels on rooftops across the country.
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21 Mar 16
China should prioritise reforms to open up its economy, reduce inequality and expand innovation on its “bumpy” transition to a new growth model, International Monetary Fund managing director...
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11 Mar 16
The World Bank and the Global Environment Facility have launched a multi-million dollar “global platform for sustainable cities”.
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29 Feb 16
The World Bank approved a $120m loan to China last week to support transport development in Wuhan, the capital of central China’s Hubei province.
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17 Feb 16
The Asian Development Bank has announced a new partnership strategy with China, which will prioritise climate change.
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9 Feb 16
There has been a threefold increased in the size of the middle class in eastern European and central Asian nations since 2001, according to the United Nations Development Programme.
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15 Jan 16
Myanmar has announced new requirements for assessing the environmental and social impacts of development projects, which have been worked up with assistance from the Asian Development Bank.
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14 Dec 15
Italy is to contribute €4.7m to the African Development Bank’s Africa Climate Change Fund.
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14 Dec 15
A landmark deal to tackle climate change agreed at the COP21 summit in Paris over the weekend is a “monumental triumph”, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has said.
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11 Dec 15
Prince Charles has called for an ambitious and committed public, private and civil society partnership that can “re-wire” the global economy to eliminate its harmful impact on the environment.
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10 Dec 15
The Asian Development Bank has announced it will draw on government-backed and private sector sources to provide $1bn of funding for India’s renewable energy sector.
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2 Dec 15
Two regional development banks have made substantial funding announcements for Latin American countries for projects including green energy bonds.