{"id":273778,"date":"2023-12-14T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=273778"},"modified":"2023-12-14T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T12:03:13","slug":"global-river-cities-alliance-grca-launched-at-cop28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-river-cities-alliance-grca-launched-at-cop28\/","title":{"rendered":"Global River Cities Alliance (GRCA) Launched at COP28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source-<\/strong> This post is based on the article &#8220;<strong>NMCG Launches Global River Cities Alliance at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai<\/strong>&#8221; published in &#8220;<strong>PIB<\/strong>&#8221; on 12th December 2023.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<p>The Global River Cities Alliance (GRCA),<strong> led by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG)<\/strong>, was launched at COP28 in Dubai.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Global River Cities Alliance?<\/h2>\n<table style=\"height: 255px; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: solid;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 120px;\" aria-rowindex=\"1\">\n<td style=\"width: 31.6364%; height: 120px;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">What is it?<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.2424%; height: 120px;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1) The GRCA is a unique alliance to <strong>propagate river-sensitive development<\/strong> in cities around the world.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">2) It <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">extends the River Cities Alliance<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, initially established by NMCG in 2021.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:-20,&quot;335559737&quot;:-20,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 60px;\" aria-rowindex=\"2\">\n<td style=\"width: 31.6364%; height: 60px;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Aim<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.2424%; height: 60px;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">To foster global collaboration for river conservation and sustainable water management.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px;\" aria-rowindex=\"3\">\n<td style=\"width: 31.6364%; height: 75px;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Members<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 68.2424%; height: 75px;\" data-celllook=\"0\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Includes over <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">275 river-cities worldwide across 11 countries<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> (India, Australia, Japan, Bhutan, Egypt, etc), along with international funding agencies (World Bank, AIIB, ADB)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:0,&quot;335551620&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\"><strong>Note-<\/strong> River cities of Den Haag, from the Netherlands, Adelaide from Australia, and Szolnok of Hungary joined the GRCA.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What is River Cities Alliance?<\/h2>\n<p>1) <strong>Purpose<\/strong>: It is a dedicated platform for river cities in India to ideate, discuss and exchange information for the sustainable management of urban rivers.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>Launched by<\/strong>: <span data-contrast=\"auto\">NMCG in association with National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-for-jal-shakti-launches-river-cities-alliance-a-dedicated-platform-for-river-cities-in-india-to-ideate-discuss-and-exchange-information-for-sustainable-management-of-urban-rivers\/\">Click Here to Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>What is National Mission for Clean Ganga?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/national-mission-for-clean-ganganmcg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here to read<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus- Environment<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source- This post is based on the article &#8220;NMCG Launches Global River Cities Alliance at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai&#8221; published in &#8220;PIB&#8221; on 12th December 2023. Why in the News? The Global River Cities Alliance (GRCA), led by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), was launched at COP28 in Dubai.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/global-river-cities-alliance-grca-launched-at-cop28\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Global River Cities Alliance (GRCA) Launched at COP28<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-273778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":30,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702582953},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}