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4 Lessons on Increasing Transport Mitigation Ambition in China

The City Fix

Abating China’s transport sector greenhouse gas emissions, which accounted for about 11% of the world’s transport emissions in 2018, is key to meeting both national and global climate goals. In 2021, China updated its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), outlining ambitious.

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Why World Backup Day is relevant everyday

Open Access Government - Technology News

Advance fee fraud, where a large sum of money is promised in return for a small upfront fee, accounted for 17%. Cybercrimes targeting businesses 2022’s most frequent business cyberattacks centred around: Stealing or compromising credentials accounted for 19% of all business cybercrime. This number was up 8.1%

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How to Address Homelessness: Reflections from Research

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

2021 ; Gubits et al. This is particularly pertinent to formerly incarcerated people and young people aging out of the foster care system, where housing needs are foreseeable and obstacles are predictable ( Schneider 2018 ; Dworsky et al. 2019 ; Collinson and Reed, 2017 ). Coordination challenges between agencies (e.g.,

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Just like DC's public housing fiasco, where 25% of the units are uninhabitable, the massive failures of Metrorail could have been avoided through the execution of sound management, accountability systems, and constant, ongoing oversight. It's an asset and risk management failure of massive proportions.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

We started reviewing the revenue structures of all municipalities in Florida from 2008 to 2018, considering recession exerts different impacts on each revenue source. His substantive research topic interests include infrastructure (transportation) finance and policy, disaster finance, fiscal transparency, and financial accounting.

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Defining Data Equity

GovLoop

Since President Biden signed the “ Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government ” in 2021, more than 90 federal agencies have created equity action plans. State and local leaders are acting, too. Here are three examples of data equity in action.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

commitment and time.