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Cities: Possibilities 2024 closing plenary

The financing gap for infrastructure projects might have come under the spotlight recently, but experts at the Cities: Possibilities 2024 forum say the key barriers to building better cities are not money or the lack of technical solutions, but political cycles that reward short-termism.

Secluded areas are being prepared for tourism growth despite environmental protections, prompting fears of unsustainable development.

Catastrophic floods, exacerbated by climate change, destroyed the Melamchi water supply project in 2021. Reconstruction is underway, but community safety measures are absent.

Traffic congestion, while a sign of economic growth in Asia, leads to gridlocks and pollution, but solutions like efficient public transport systems, such as electric vehicles and metro lines, along with higher parking fees and fuel prices, can encourage a shift towards more sustainable transportation options.

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By Sarah Brown

By Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey

By Christian Klassert, Samer Talozi

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Many cities in the Indo-Pacific have public transport stops close to at least half of their populations, but wider access remains a challenge. By James Goldie

By making walkability a central component of how we design our cities, we can create vibrant, inclusive and environmentally sustainable urban landscapes. By Susilawati

More than half the city will be under 1.2 metres of flood waters by the end of this century if action is not taken now. By Jie Yin and Dapeng Yu

As cities grow and heat up, it’s time to get rid of your air-conditioner and have more plants in your homes. By Tamil Salvi Mari

By Fiona McAlpine

By Marc Buncher

By Liz Hanna

By Jillian Du and Maria Hart

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Plastic pollution is a huge problem all over of the world. Will India's plastic roads be a solution?

China has provided huge funding supposedly to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate impacts, but it is also financing coal projects included in the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). What do recipient countries make of this?

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.

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Eyes are on whether the city’s plan to build the world’s “greenest highway” will take off. The Eco-Business Podcast speaks to Marwa Nahlawi from Diamond Developers, the real estate developer behind Dubai's "Sustainable City" brand, which adopts a similar green spine concept.

EB Studio [The EB Podcast] In the second episode of the series Tomorrow’s cities: Engineering the energy transition, we explore how to build zero carbon cities in fast-growing Southeast Asia.

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