November 2021
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Day: November 14, 2021
International Alliance forms to Quit Oil and Gas
The governments of Denmark and Costa Rica today launched the first international government coalition aimed at ending oil and gas production. Members of the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA), which presented their group at the COP 26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, argue that more oil and gas must stay in the ground if the world is to keep…
Read MoreWAPDA Executing Ambitious Hydropower-Generation Expansion Plan: Chairman
WAPDA Chairman Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain (Retd) has said that as many as 20 million acres of virgin land can be brought under irrigated agriculture in Pakistan if water is made available by constructing dams. WAPDA is executing a number of mega projects scheduled to be completed by 2029 in a phased manner and the water storage will increase from…
Read MoreNepra Deregulates Small-Scale Distributed Generation
The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has deregulated the private generation of up to 25kW to promote renewable distributed generation and net metering. “Distributed generation facility using solar or wind power generation of up to 25 kilowatt, connected with the network of a distributed licensee through the net metering facility, shall not require a generation licence from the Nepra,”…
Read MoreNo CNG, RLNG on Nov 14 Across Sindh, SSGC Announces
Province’s sole gas distributor Sui Southern Gas Company Limited has Friday announced there shall be no CNG or RLNG for the gas stations on Nov 14 (Sunday) for a 24-hour-period across Sindh.https://www.facebook.com/v2.9/plugins/quote.php?app_id=106170627023&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df902a8213eeabc%26domain%3Dnation.com.pk%26is_canvas%3Dfalse%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fnation.com.pk%252Ff324085e7ee98fc%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=779&href=https%3A%2F%2Fnation.com.pk%2F13-Nov-2021%2Fno-cng-rlng-on-nov-14-across-sindh-ssgc-announces&locale=en_US&sdk=joey The gas utility provider said the availability of gas has decreased and has resulted in depletion of line pack, due to which starting 8 am on Nov 14,…
Read MoreWithout Coal, What Happens to Cement, Steel, Iron — and Asia’s Path to Development?
One of the highlights of this year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference, COP26, has been that over 40 countries pledged to phase out coal from the power sector. However, beyond power generation, some of the most heavy-polluting, fossil fuel-reliant industries are steel, iron, cement, and concrete – the same industries that are crucial to aspirations of development in Asia and beyond.…
Read MoreNo Increase in Gas prices Since 2019: Senate Told
Minister for Energy Hammad Azhar on Friday informed the Senate that gas domestic reserves were fast depleting and the gas prices had not been increased since 2019. Responding to a calling attention notice raised by Senators Sherry Rehman and Saleem Mandviwalla about the ongoing crisis in the gas supply to consumers, both domestic and commercial, especially for the upcoming winter,…
Read MoreGas utilities sign MoU
A memorandum of understanding was signed between SSGC and SNGPL for jointly exploring opportunities for improving business sustainability, efficiency and productivity of Meter Manufacturing Plant (MMP) located in SSGC, Karachi. Ali J. Hamdani, MD SNGPL, and Imran Maniar, MD SSGC, inked the MoU at a simple ceremony held at the SSGC’s head office.https://www.facebook.com/v2.9/plugins/quote.php?app_id=106170627023&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df1eff3afb6f3d4c%26domain%3Dnation.com.pk%26is_canvas%3Dfalse%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fnation.com.pk%252Ff2d8c1253dc02e4%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=779&href=https%3A%2F%2Fnation.com.pk%2F13-Nov-2021%2Fgas-utilities-sign-mou&locale=en_US&sdk=joey The MoU pledges for initiation of a…
Read MoreCOP26: Away from Rhetoric
lasgow hosted the 26th edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to achieve an extremely ambitious yet simple agenda i.e. stabilising the climate by reducing levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHG) in the Earth’s atmosphere. Before we discuss how far the 40,000 COP26 delegates – representing politicians, bureaucrats, thought leaders,…
Read MoreNegotiating the climate
The 26th iteration of the Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held over the past two weeks in Glasgow. The primary purpose of the conference was to take stock of global commitments in light of the Paris Agreement (2015), which calls for restricting global temperature rise to 2 degree Celsius with the enhanced…
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