BRAZIL

Spillage damages

Complete makeover

Toyota pays up

Toyota Motor Corp will spend US $34 million to finance the improvement of anti-pollution controls on old, publicly-owned buses in the US even …

Don't bank on them

Noted financial institutes support projects harmful to the environs

Dead end

Toll road triggers protests

Death trail

Debt-laden Maharashtra farmers choose to die

Africa's largest slum has a radio station

Andhra Pradesh passes microfinance Act

Rs 3,300 crore to counter Naxalites

District administration will decide how to use funds

Rao wants more opportunities for young talent

Twenty-five scientists met the Prime Minister recently and appraised him of the issues confronting scientific research in India

Sanitary by 2010

Participatory survey gives Bangladesh the confidence to prepone sanitation coverage target

Civil society seconds rural development ministry’s demand for MGNREGA funds

The rural development ministry had recently demanded an additional allocation of Rs 5,000 crore to maintain the momentum of MGNREGA

Climate Finance - Update I

EU leaders agree on climate finance

How good are green bonds

There has been a steady pick-up in green bonds in the last half a decade. Half the volume, however, came from only 5 countries

International Solar Alliance plans bank to fund energy access

Priority focus 1.2 billion with no access; next step: 2.4 billion without  access to clean sources

States paid Rs 36.8 cr as interest to panchayats, still don’t transfer funds

Parliamentary standing committee flags off persistent delay in transfer of funds to panchayats but government’s reply have not been convincing

Asia received largest share of climate finance in 2017: report

The report by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development adds that public climate finance from developed to developing countries&…

Build bridges between climate tribes and real economy people to bring finance in adaptation, says Christina Figueres

There will be a high level ministerial dialogue at CoP 22 at Marrakesh on adaptation finance

Power at full capacity

The Power Finance Corp has recently initiated a programme to enhance energy efficiency by installing capacitors to harness the reactive load in …

Labour's love lost

Goodshow

Exchange programme

Drastic step

Andhra government mulls draconian laws on rainwater harvesting

Risky move

WB's U-turn on hydropower