Year: 2020

KARACHI: Startups in Pakistan are striving to lessen darkness due to insufficient electricity transmission, while making money out of the opportunity. Pakistan is one of those countries which still faces prolonged power outages and one of the main reasons is line losses at a time when the country has surplus production capacity. Inefficient distribution, coupled with lower recovery of consumer bills and high power theft, is giving birth to the complicated circular debt. Consumers are now looking for opportunities to slash their electricity bills such as through installing solar panels.…

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As of today, Google has eliminated its entire “carbon legacy.” By that, the company means it has purchased high-quality carbon offsets to match all of the emissions ever produced by its data centers and campuses. That includes the emissions generated before Google became carbon neutral in 2007. The company says it’s the first in the world to eliminate its carbon legacy. Carbon offsets are credits for renewable energy that are meant to compensate for emissions made elsewhere. While those credits support renewable energy, they only go so far. Not creating…

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Apple has announced a target of becoming carbon neutral across its entire business and manufacturing supply chain by 2030.The company says the commitment means its devices will have had “zero climate impact” at point of sale.It told BBC News any company hoping to become a supplier would have to commit to “be 100% renewable for their Apple production” within 10 years.It follows climate-focused pledges by other technology giants.Microsoft arguably has gone further, by promising: to be carbon negative by 2030 by 2050, to have removed the same amount of carbon as it…

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nippy November morning saw me driving along a mountain road in Tripuradevi village in India’s Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, with the warm sun peeping through the tall pines. I was there to buy hand-woven organically dyed silks and cottons created by Avani, a community organisation employing local craftsmen and providing them with a steady source of income, alongside that from the surplus crops and produce they sell. But what caught my eye were heaps of pine needles drying in the sun. A man was feeding the dried pine needles into a…

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