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The focus ESG frameworks place on climate change runs the risk that we fail to solve the problem of ensuring access to water and sanitation for all. We need to change the way ESG frameworks are structured – beginning with …

Pakistan faces a dual challenge of maturation of current oil and gas reserves and deceleration of exploration activities. This can be further linked to the growing energy needs by the industrial, residential, and commercial users due to economic growth. Pakistan …

PARCO Pearl Gas (Private) Limited (PPGL), a fully owned subsidiary of Pak Arab Refinery Limited, is Pakistan’s largest LPG Marketing company. The company has had a strong presence in Pakistan’s LPG sector for over three decades and was previously known …

Floating wind, which uses turbines located at sea but not attached to the ocean floor, has several key advantages over traditional onshore or fixed-bottom wind parks. Floating wind has the potential to make a huge contribution to filling the installed …

Smart buildings are an important tool in bringing down energy consumption. The technology smart buildings use is vulnerable to cybercrime, so the sector needs to improve its cybersecurity. This involves getting processes in place to ensure that cybersecurity is a …

Despite covering just 2% of the Earth’s surface, cities are major greenhouse gas emission contributors. 25 mega-cities produce 52% of urban greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study. Although Asian cities emit the most greenhouse gasses, cities in Europe, …

The cryptocurrency bitcoin now uses up more electricity a year than the whole of Argentina, according to recent estimates from the University of Cambridge. That’s because the creation of a bitcoin, in a process called mining, is achieved by powerful …

A new report found 13,000 projects in the renewable energy sector could help develop 10 million jobs in 50 countries around the world. The projects offer $2 trillion in investment opportunities and would generate jobs all along the supply chain, …

Policies and measures to achieve net-zero emissions will have a profound impact on the oil and gas sector, both in relation to its operations as well as in demand for its products. Decarbonisation and evolving demand call for industry players …

Pakistan has a large enviable sedimentary basin (area) of 827,268 square kilometers; 10 times more than UAE and 72 times more than Qatar. But with only 1123 exploratory and 1496 Appraisal/Development wells i.e., exploration drilling density of 1.35 wells per …

Achieving a net-zero energy future in developing economies is going to require trillions of dollars of private investment. Many obstacles remain in the way of this much-needed finance, however. Here are 5 ways policy-makers can smooth over these obstacles and …

Green hydrogen – produced using renewable energy – currently accounts for just 0.1% of global hydrogen production. But it’s a powerful bet for solving renewables’ intermittency problem and decarbonizing heavy industry. Scaling up green hydrogen does present challenges – but …