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Spanish construction wins Doha metro station contract
2013-06-03 01:00:00| Railway Technology
A consortium comprising Spanish construction and civil engineering firm Obrascon Huarte Lain (OHL), Samsung C&T and Qatar Building Company has secured a 1.1bn contract from Qatar Railway Company to build two metro stations in Doha.
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New Doha International Airport (NDIA)
2013-01-24 01:00:00| Airport Technology
Qatar is building a brand new airport to replace Doha International Airport, called the New Doha International Airport (NDIA). The airport is being constructed four kilometres from the existing facility on a 5,400-acre site and will replace Doha Inte
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Pachauri on Doha, IPCC Leaks and His Optimism
2013-01-16 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: The international climate community suffered a rocky finish to 2012 with slow progress, lacklustre ambition and a leak of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) authoritative Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). At the centre of this is Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the IPCC and director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). The Verb recently spoke with Dr Pachauri from his office in Delhi, India about the latest round of UN climate talks in Doha, Qatar, the leaked...
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What next for the Green Climate Fund after Doha dud?
2013-01-11 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: For those of us (wonks, admittedly) interested in the fate of the Green Climate Fund potentially the most important multilateral institution to deal with climate change in the near future the outcome of 2012 Doha climate summit was a disappointingly mixed bag. The 194 countries assembled there made promising statements about the importance of the fund in the international climate financing architecture and outlined their work for the year ahead. But by refusing to make any firm commitments...