{"id":500365,"date":"2022-06-24T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T04:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=500365"},"modified":"2022-06-24T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T04:53:05","slug":"railways-gets-245-mn-world-bank-loan-to-cut-logistics-projects-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/railways-gets-245-mn-world-bank-loan-to-cut-logistics-projects-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Railways gets $245-mn World Bank loan to cut logistics project&#8217;s emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank on Thursday approved a $245-million loan for the rail logistics project to help reduce India\u2019s high carbon emissions and low modal freight share in the railways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project will help India shift more traffic from road to rail, making transport \u2014 both freight and passenger \u2014 more efficient, and reduce millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) each year. The project will also incentivise more private sector investment in the sector,\u201d the multilateral financial institution said. <\/p>\n<p>The loan, financed through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has a maturity of 22 years, including a grace period of seven years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank on Thursday approved a $245-million loan for the rail logistics project to help reduce India\u2019s high carbon emissions and low modal freight share in the railways. \u201cThe project will help India shift more traffic from road to rail, making transport \u2014 both freight and passenger \u2014 more efficient, and reduce millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) each year. The project will also incentivise more private sector investment in the sector,\u201d the multilateral financial institution said. The loan, financed through the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, has a maturity of 22 years, including a grace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}