carbon-emissions

Rev your car (and charge it, too)

Hybrids re-emerge as the ideal compromise between EV and petrol

Vishad Raj Onta

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 action.The...

Good COP, bad COP

Just as the deadlocked climate summit in Glasgow was being extended by a day last week, Kathmandu was once again shrouded in smoke and...

Sonia Awale

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...

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...

Nepal needs to get its climate act together

The United Nations General Assembly is convening just six weeks ahead of the UN’s COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, and follows a stark warning...

Blueprint for a net-zero Nepal

The global pandemic hijacked 2020 and reset priorities, but countries now need to regroup and renew their commitment to cap global warming...

Sonia Awale

Make-or-break decade for climate action

One week before the United Nation’s 25thConference of Parties (COP25) began in Madrid the World Meteorological Organisation warned that by 2100 the average...

Tourism, aviation and carbon

Last month, young climate change activist Greta Thunberg sailed across the Atlantic Ocean for 15 days on a zero-carbon yacht. After the...

MUSTN’T BLAME EVERYTHING ON CLIMATE CHANGE

There is a tendency on the part of governments to blame everything on climate change. It lets them off the hook. In...