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Decentralising (hydro)power
Nepal has the fifth highest hydropower potential in the world. Besides electricity, which can be used for peak energy supply, hydropower…
An energy windfall for Nepal?
Photo: EDCWLast month saw the historic signing of the Nepal-India energy Joint Steering Committee agreement to build the new Butwal-Gorakhpur…
Can Nepal be the powerhouse of Asia?
Yes, by creating an environment for investment in renewable energy to meet domestic and regional demand
The climate threat multiplier
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERSMost of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Finding the nexus between water, food and energy
SILO-ED THINKING: The Melamchi Project is given by authors as an example of non-nexus thinking. By planning it only as a drinking water project,…
Starting Nepal’s green school movement
Surkhet has a new, community focused eco-friendly school that could be a model for others
Mind the Gap
Diwakar ChettriWhatever the political ambitions of the Maoist leaders, their justification for taking up arms was the inequality historically…
More than half of Nepal’s electricity imported from India
Naya Patrika, 14 JanuaryNepal imported 653MW electricity from India on Friday, the biggest amount so far since the country ended powercuts three…
Decarbonise now
The conclusion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5ºC could not have been more blunt:…
Federalism's birth pangs or death rattle?
May 2017 was a milestone in Nepal’s transition from a unitary system to a federal state, but a year since locally elected representatives took…
Grassroots democracy is delivering development
In the three decades after 1960 when political parties were banned, there were Village Panchayats. After the democratic changes in 1990, they…