Other governments hanker after grand projects that do nothing to help the poor.
Even projects that do not require adding infrastructure like railroads and ports are under threat.
"These costs are all priced into the subsidies awarded to the projects that do go ahead.
"We are more interested in issues and subject matters and projects that do work".
The four large scale projects that do store the CO2 are able to lock away 2.6 million tonnes per year.
It also refuses to pay for any projects that do not help in exporting more crude oil.
Moreover, the agency has sometimes run into criticism from scientists over what they describe as "political replanting" projects that do not always make ecological sense.
Shale gas projects that do not use fracking would not be covered by the rules, which update environmental legislation in Europe.
And Mr. McCall not only visited projects that do get some of New York's pension money, but also places that do not.
"This city is fixated on shortcuts to revitalization," Mr. Rashid said, relying on huge projects " that do nothing but deliver false promises".
A shift in perspective will help evolve a set of categories and projects that do greater justice to the emerging urban landscape in India.
