India launches project to make cities climate-smart
Global lack of climate-change preparation expected to cost $90-trillion in the next 10 years
26 October 2020 - 15:27
Mumbai — India’s southern city of Hyderabad is known as a hi-tech hub, but its infrastructure is looking dated in an era of strengthening climate change impacts.
The city — home to offices of Microsoft and Google — this month saw its heaviest rainfall in a century, which left 70 dead and 5.7bn rupees ($77m) in damage to roads and drains, officials said...
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