infrastruttura no. 26 Not even civil infrastructure is immune from the decentralization taking place during the "Great Dispersion" rippling through the global economy. Take water resources, for example. In our moment of scorching temperatures and mega-droughts, water is becoming an increasingly precious commodity everywhere (but nowhere more acutely than in
infrastruttura no. 25 North America's first hydrogen-powered train is taking passengers for the summer in Quebec. "Hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and it always will be" is The Economist's running joke. But there's real reason to be optimistic that the future is now, at least in certain
The world's infrastructure funding gap is growing, stressed by rising interest rates, the fight against climate change, and waves of populism. Despite infrastructure's outsized impact on global carbon emissions (the sector is responsible for nearly 80 percent of them) there remains an enormous investment gap between the funds that G20
Agtech's portfolio of vertical farming startups is facing an existential crisis. Alarm bells were ringing earlier this year. But with two agtech startups filing for bankruptcy protection since April and potentially another headed for Chapter 11 soon the vertical farming industry itself may be on the ropes. Promising a 90
The bi-partisan agreement to suspend America's debt ceiling a couple of weeks ago was reason to cheer in its own right. But for infrastructure enthusiasts there are a few other provisions packed into the bill that are also worth celebrating. The debt deal (officially, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023)