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Evidence-bound analysis across the permanent Mark and Focus editorial desks.
The European Commission has approved €125.81 million for three cross-border renewable-energy actions: two German-Polish heating systems and a Latvian-Lithuanian wind project.
Read analysisBrazil’s draft national strategy for urban nature-based solutions sets a 2026–2035 action plan spanning regulation, finance, justice, maintenance and data.
Read analysisJapan’s first review of its Fifth Fundamental Plan finds final disposal and circular-business growth broadly on track, while resource productivity, circular inputs, circular-use rates and public behavior need more work.
Read analysisFrom 17 September, every proposed Scottish data center above 50 megawatts requires an Environmental Impact Assessment. The direction converts an emerging set of energy, water, carbon and community concerns into evidence that must shape projects before consent.
Read analysisAustralia is consulting on national standards that would tie large data centers and frontier AI training to power, water, security, skills and community obligations.
Read analysisThree World Bank approvals connect a port city's roads and drainage, climate-resilient highways in the Mekong Delta and modernized fishing ports. Together they show Viet Nam treating connectivity as a chain from urban logistics to coastal livelihoods.
Read analysisAustralia's new national framework treats rooftop-solar inverters, home batteries and electric-vehicle chargers as grid equipment with continuing obligations.
Read analysisJiangsu's new urban-infrastructure rules combine asset surveys, risk assessment, sensors, shared data, warnings and departmental duties. The important move is not the technology alone, but an operating chain from detecting danger to assigning a response.
Read analysisThe European Commission has proposed replacing three core procurement directives with one directly applicable regulation.
Read analysisBrazil's new data center regime does more than suspend taxes. It makes domestic compute, clean electricity, water efficiency and local research obligations conditions of entry—turning industrial support into an enforceable bargain over scarce resources.
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