Tag: #carbon emissions
Articles tagged with #carbon emissions
Hydrocarbon to hydropower
Exporting power will not reduce the trade deficit by much, Nepal must increase domestic electricity use.
Rev your car (and charge it, too)
Hybrids re-emerge as the ideal compromise between EV and petrol
Make or break climate summits
This November, world leaders gather in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt to negotiate, monitor progress on targets, and implement global climate…
Good COP, bad COP
Kathmandu shrouded in smoke and smog from stubble and industrial pollution from northern India, as well as the valley's own vehicular emissions…
Cycle to fight climate change
It must be a cosmic confluence that just as the world leaders gather in Glasgow next week to try to save the planet, we in Nepal mark the tragic…
Fully charged, and ready to go
A combination of tax rebates, the Dasain-Tihar season, and a public fed up with being cooped for nearly two years due to Covid restrictions is…
Nepal needs to get its climate act together
Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden address the 76th UN General Assembly on 21 September. Photos: XINHUAThe United Nations…
Blueprint for a net-zero Nepal
Photo: NEPAL OIL CORPORATIONThe global pandemic hijacked 2020 and reset priorities, but countries now need to regroup and renew their commitment…
Make-or-break decade for climate action
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIOne week before the United Nation’s 25thConference of Parties (COP25) began in Madrid the World Meteorological…
Tourism, aviation and carbon
CARBON NEUTRAL: Yeti Airlines has a policy to cut carbon use with more fuel-efficient ATR-72 aircraft, and battery-powered vans.Last month,…
MUSTN’T BLAME EVERYTHING ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Photo: KUNDA DIXITThere is a tendency on the part of governments to blame everything on climate change. It lets them off the hook. In Nepal, a…