After suffering decades of electricity shortages that left families and businesses in the dark, Pakistan finds itself with a new problem: more electrical generating capacity than i…
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Where are Asia’s energy majors in the net zero conversation?
Over the past year, there has been a flurry of commitments from the corporate world to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Even oil and gas companies, which are among the world’s heavie…
Workers’ rights under threat as online work surges five-fold—UN
Digital platforms have soared five-fold over the past decade, offering opportunities to some but also eroding workers’ rights, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said on T…
How will China’s internet giants become carbon neutral?
On 12 January, Tencent, one of the world’s largest internet companies, responded to the Chinese government’s carbon neutrality goal by announcing it was planning to reach neutralit…
Explainer: Can satellite mapping really make agriculture more sustainable?
Can images from space help us achieve greener ways of growing food here on Earth? That’s the very real ambition behind precision agriculture, a new form of tech-driven farming whic…
How corporations gave politicians permission to deny reality
At the 2018 UN climate conference in Poland, visitors could watch a virtual forest degrade on a set of screens – and donate, a display said, to help save it.
The installation was s…
Fragile cities are being inundated with people fleeing the impacts of climate change. How can they cope?
Humanitarian experts predict that the current trajectory of climate change will displace millions of people in the Global South. Image: Kanta et al. 2018. Groundswell: Preparing fo…
IEA: India is on ‘cusp of a solar-powered revolution’
India is entering a “solar-powered revolution” that will see it edge out coal as the nation’s top electricity source, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Solar powe…
Solar power’s future could soon be overshadowed
As more households and industries have opted to harness the sun’s energy, a small but definite shadow is nagging at the many manufacturers who have put their faith in solar power’s…
Innovations coming out of India beneficial for all
Scientists have now established that the rapid melting of ice in the Arctic due to climate change has impacts on the South Asia summer monsoon. This has strengthened the Indian gov…