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By fully meeting the national targets they set under the Paris Agreement, South Asian countries can unlock $3.4 trillion of climate-smart investment opportunities
, according to Climate Investment Opportunities in South Asia, a new report by IFC.
Read more: Climate Investment Opportunities in South Asia - An IFC Analysis
Rashmita Khattoi was born and raised in Bhubaneswar, the capital of India’s Odisha state. After starting her career as an elementary school teacher, she decided to pursue her true love—cooking—and opened her own food truck.
But her business selling local delicacies to people returning home from work got off to a slow start. Bhubaneswar’s roads were so poorly lit that potential customers, worried about their safety, hurried on their way rather than linger after sunset.
Read more: Better street lights boost business and improve lives in India
Drivers of older, more polluting petrol and diesel cars in centre of capital now liable for fee on top of congestion charge
Read more: London's £10 T-charge comes into effect in fight against toxic car fumes
he idea that we will surrender our prized motors can look far-fetched. But as cities clamp down on vehicle use, technology is putting a utopian vision in reach
When Amsterdam removed signals from a busy junction, it made journeys faster and interactions more pleasant. Now the approach is being copied across the city.
Just as electricity transformed the way industries functioned in the past century, artificial intelligence — the science of programming cognitive abilities into machines — has the power to substantially change society in the next 100 years. AI is being harnessed to enable such things as home robots, robo-taxis and mental health chatbots to make you feel better. A startup is developing robots with AI that brings them closer to human level intelligence. Already, AI has been embedding itself in daily life — such as powering the brains of digital assistants Siri and Alexa. It lets consumers shop and search online more accurately and efficiently, among other tasks that people take for granted.
Read more: Artificial intelligence is going to completely change your life
The second Cycle Highway Academy took place in London on the 4th and 5th of October after the successful first edition around “Planning’ in Arnhem in June during Velo-city 2017.
Read more: 2nd Cycle Highway Academy – Design & Build (London)
ECF are currently involved in an issue that could be a threat to the growth of pedelec use in the EU.
The Motor Vehicle Insurance Directive (MID) ensures that when a vehicle is insured for third party liability in one of the Member States, this cover must apply in the territory of all Member States. ECF very much supports this Directive as a way of ensuring cyclists that are involved in crashes with a motor vehicle will have reliable access to compensation from personal and material damages across the EU.
Read more: Motor Vehicle Insurance Directive Consultation and threat to pedelec growth
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) has released a new study on fiscal incentives and electric vehicle sales, finding a high correlation of financial inducement and the purchase of an electric vehicle. Eight countries were included in the study: France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and the UK. The researchers performed a pairwise comparison of the total cost of ownership and electric car sales in the countries, allowing for cross-segment and cross-country comparison in the European countries. The findings show that, compared to their conventional equivalents, large electric vehicles have a lower total cost of ownership, higher sales, and seem to be less price responsive than small electric vehicles.
Read more: Study finds policy changes can impact on the EV market
