by | Aug 2, 2022 | News
The USA’s Senate has passed a package worth £369bn of green energy measures to reduce inflation and tackle climate change. The implications for American energy infrastructure are big. President Biden and Kamala Harris have welcomed the new Senate budget agreement –...
by | Aug 1, 2022 | News
In February 2022, the international engineering business federation FIDIC launched a new policy and programme for diversity and inclusion. Six months on, we talk with FIDIC CEO Dr Nelson Ogunshakin OBE (NO) about how it is going and why this is so important. IG:...
by | Jul 26, 2022 | News
At the recent US-Africa Business Summit, the AfDB president called for investment in Africa not to help Africa, but to solve the world’s net zero challenge. So, how crucial could Africa be in tackling climate change? Africa has many of the most climate-vulnerable...
by | Jul 13, 2022 | News
The 2022 Aid Transparency Index reports a gradual improvement across many organisations as it names the AfDB, World Bank, ADB and IDB the most transparent. The Publish What You Fund global campaign for aid transparency has reported some improvement in aid...
by | Jul 13, 2022 | News
New framework uses pre-and-post shock vulnerability data to identify the best recovery path and the investment need for small and vulnerable states. The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has taken the case for its vulnerability and resilience measurement framework to...
by | Jul 12, 2022 | News
Asia and the Pacific is responsible for over 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions and has many of the most severely affected small island nations and vulnerable populations. Masatsugu Asakawa, president of the Asian Development Bank, has called for faster action to...
