Reporting on the policies, cities and systems quietly reshaping life across continents — from transport pacts and climate funds to the rules that govern how people move, build and work.
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From Paris to Milan, urban access zones are getting bigger, smarter and harder to argue with. Here is what is changing, and what it means for anyone who drives in.
Dozens of countries now court remote workers. But income floors are rising, tax exemptions are expiring and the golden era of “anywhere” is getting more specific.
Ninety percent of everything still moves by sea. A new network of green corridors is the industry's biggest bet yet that it can decarbonise without waiting for a miracle fuel.
Five countries have agreed to treat the region's railways as one network: shared signalling, shared standards, and a timetable that finally crosses borders the way trucks always could.
The largest single adaptation disbursement on record goes to defending delta cities — not with seawalls, but with marshes, dunes and drainage that pays for itself.
Factory-built housing is suddenly central to national policy. The reason is arithmetic: the sector doubled output without doubling trades on site.