ECA Studies pave the way to combating flooding in Honduras
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San Pedro Sula is a city in Northern Honduras. The area has always been prone to tropical storms and flooding; however in recent years the effects of climate change, land use change and deforestation have led to worsening problems. A growing population and increased intensity of storms have added further strain on the existing drainage systems and the city has suffered increasingly from floods.
“Climate change has significantly increased the risk of catastrophic floods,” explained Mayor Armando Calidonio. “These floods have grown in intensity and turned into much stronger events that reach neighborhoods and areas that weren’t exposed before. We’re seeing the concentration of rainfall into more aggressive storms that in general, even in the most developed areas, are causing the rainwater drainage systems to collapse.”
WB, AIIB funds for State
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Kerala will get a $250-million concessional funding from the World Bank and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for the resilient development programme under the Rebuild Kerala Initiative (RKI).
An agreement has been reached with the agencies to make available the funds. The funds will be used for projects linked to climate change and to check natural disasters, epidemics, and build greater resilience to future shocks, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Friday.
The WB had made available $250 million for the Phase I of the resilient development programme in 2019 and the German Development Bank KfW €170 million.
April 27, 2021
Danial Norjidi
Protecting biodiversity is everybody’s business said Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) Dr Theresa Mundita S Lim in a statement issued in conjunction with Earth Day, celebrated each year on April 22.
“While today’s global health and climate crises have been putting many of us on pause, more and more people are fully realising that the Earth the home that we inhabit and from which we get our basic needs is at the centre of our survival and prosperity,” said Dr Lim.
“In celebration of International Mother Earth Day, the ACB joins billions of people in honouring our planet and spotlighting the urgency of working together to restore the world’s ecosystems.”
World Bank, France and Germany pledge $52 million to support Palestinian municipalities against COVID-19 crisis
RAMALLAH, Thursday, April 01, 2021 (WAFA) – The French Agency for Development, the German Development Bank (KfW) and the World Bank today signed financing and project agreements worth $52 with the Palestinian Government to support the Palestinian response against the COVID19 pandemic at the local level.
The agreements were signed by Minister of Finance Shukri Bishara, the Minister of Local Government Majdi Al Saleh, the Consul General of France in Jerusalem René Troccaz, the Country Director of the French Agency for Development (AFD), Martin Parent, the Director of German Development Bank (KfW) Office Ramallah, David Kunze, and the Country Director of the World Bank, Kanthan Shankar.
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