With $90 trillion set to be spent by 2030, making sure new infrastructure is built with clean power, runs on it and can withstand worsening climate disasters is key.
Often taken for granted, access to energy is more than about brightening a dark room after sunset—it is a means to a more equitable future. How can energy be delivered to off-grid communities?
Zara Kayani –
The involvement of local communities in Pakistan's development should be welcomed, because it is crucial to ensuring the acceptability and sustainability of development initiatives.
Éloi Laurent –
Societies beset by inequality will be ill-prepared to face the environmental shocks from climate change. And as ecological conditions continue to deteriorate, we should expect to witness an explosion of injustices, new and old.
Ayushi Trivedi
and Ginette Walls, Rachel Spiegel –
World Resources Institute analysts discuss why women’s access to jobs matters for everyone, and how women can participate more in the sustainable infrastructure workforce.
Smart technology will only work for women when the fundamentals for its update are in place, writes Ibrahim Thiaw, under-secretary general of the United Nations.
Sonia Chand Sandhu writes why strong institutions in Asian countries are needed to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and how the ADB is measuring them.
Ping Manongdo –
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were created to end poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction and to chart a new path towards sustainability. For businesses, it comes with a promise of long-term profitability, too.
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Moving away from narratives that spell fear of climate-related catastrophes, "Tomorrow" tells stories of how ordinary people -- from Icelandic volcanoes to Indian slums -- employ innovative ways to fight the effects of climate change.
David Hatch, Citiscope –
Uber, the app-based ride-hailing service, releases data that aim to help municipalities make better decisions about infrastructure and public transit needs, but a national transport association says the information is not what is required.
Ping Manongdo –
The new development - to be used for military exercises - will reclaim land using less sand, and introduces the city-state’s first sub-sea level polder.
Countries will be confronted with an increasingly complex challenge over the next 15 years. Major risks such as poorly managed urbanisation, climate change, and unequal rather than inclusive growth in ...
As the nations of Southeast Asia underwent rapid economic and population growth from the latter part of the last century, they also experienced rapid change to their traditional ways of ...
Dutch manufacturing company AkzoNobel and sustainability media firm Eco-Business held the inaugural Cities:Possibilities forum on 8 November 2016. Read this outcome report for highlights from this insightful dialogue.
The Report provides a detailed assessment of the status of innovation policy and support mechanisms for innovation in the Pacific region. In the second part , the Report presents a ...
