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The EU Has Put ChatGPT Inside Its Largest-Service Rulebook
The European Commission has designated ChatGPT a very large online search engine, placing the service under the Digital Services Act’s strongest systemic-risk and accountability obligations.
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Latest analysisIndia Is Giving Rural Water Systems a Shared Digital Identity
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Latest analysisEngland’s Drought Response Is Now Managing Scarcity and Sudden Flooding at Once
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Latest analysisChina Is Moving Tunnel Safety Upstream
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Latest analysisThe EU Has Put ChatGPT Inside Its Largest-Service Rulebook
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Latest analysisEurope’s Packaging Regulation Starts With Chemical Safety Before Full Circularity
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Latest analysisEngland’s Wildfires Show Why Peatland Resilience Is an Operating System
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Latest analysisBRICS Has Built Four Environmental Frameworks—Now It Needs a Work Programme
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Latest analysisGermany Is Building a Market for Electricity That Must Be Available
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Integrated urban sustainability, resource resilience, land use, housing and infrastructure relationships, and long-term urban transitions.
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Latest analysisBradford Trades Development-Charge Relief for Buildable Infrastructure
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Mark and Focus Monthly · August 2026
From Commitment to Delivery
Five substantial features and four intelligence briefs examine how public commitments become credible delivery through finance, evidence, implementation, operations, and verification.
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Germany Is Building a Market for Electricity That Must Be Available
European approval clears Germany to reward dependable electricity capacity as well as energy output, creating a long-term market for generation, storage, demand response and cross-border participation.
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India Is Giving Rural Water Systems a Shared Digital Identity
India’s new rural water data-sharing policy builds common identifiers, registries and exchange rules around millions of habitations, turning fragmented records into potential operating infrastructure.
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Japan Is Asking Which Infrastructure Still Needs to Exist
Japan’s infrastructure-management consultation moves beyond maintenance technique to a harder question: how shrinking municipalities should reorganize assets and services they can no longer manage one by one.
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China Is Moving Tunnel Safety Upstream
A new national directive treats tunnel accidents as the product of decisions made across procurement, design, scheduling and construction—not just failures at the tunnel face.
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Japan Is Testing Four Routes to Lower-Carbon Data Centers
Japan's Environment Ministry has selected four data-center demonstrations covering waste-heat recovery, renewable cooling, workload optimization and direct-current protection.
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Brazil’s Gas-Release Proposal Treats Liquidity as Infrastructure
Brazil's petroleum regulator has opened consultation on a moderate gas-release model using auctions and monitoring to reduce supply concentration. The proposal recognizes that pipelines alone do not create a competitive gas market.
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