For Naureen Malik's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Mix extreme heat and longer droughts, surging power demand, rising fossil fuel prices and a bumpy transition into renewables, and the result is a severe global power crunch.
While Tesla is known for its EVs, it has always been more than a car company: Its official mission is to "accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.”
The debacle highlights just how vulnerable even the most sophisticated energy systems are to the vagaries of climate change, and how close it all came to crashing down.
For a U.S. President Joe Biden, rejoining the Paris agreement would be almost as simple as signing an autograph. The hard part would be everything else. With global warming already fueling wildfires, hurricanes and mass migrations, Biden would face the monumental task of decarbonizing the ...
