Economic models buckle under strain of climate reality
Ahead of international climate talks in Dubai this month, economists are updating estimates of the impact of global warming on the world economy, sometimes calculating down to a decimal place…
Trump documents case judge made multiple errors in earlier trial
The judge in former US President Donald Trump’s upcoming trial over his handling of classified documents made two key errors in a June trial, one of which violated a fundamental…
Energy transition: green dreams, brown realities
The world energy landscape is transitioning from fossil fuels to renewables to address energy and environmental challenges. The 2021 energy crisis triggered by the Russian-Ukraine war has accelerated this transition.…
CPEC: from vision to reality
As the high-level delegation from China commemorates the completion of a decade of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), it is essential to reflect on the journey from vision to reality.…
Geopolitical realities
Towards the end of international conflicts certain new blocs generally emerge, owing to the long-term economic interests of global powers. Today, a whole new set of geoeconomic issues has come…
The realities of life
We are once again caught in a situation where politics in Pakistan revolves largely around the issue of corruption and accusations made by the PTI against its political opponents. Recently,…
Shaken by heatwaves, US clinics get tips on staying cool
The day a patient collapsed out in the parking lot, nurse practitioner Alexis Hodges realized she needed a plan to deal with the extreme heat that has overwhelmed US community…
Mitigation and reality
Will the new IPCC report on mitigation detail and recommend supply-side pathways and policies to mitigate climate change? Will the report even mention regulating a phase out of fossil fuel…
Real problem
War is armed combat between political communities with the aim of inflicting serious injury or death on multiple, non-specified individuals. War is slaughter. War is a highly contagious disease, spreading…
The pledges versus reality
Pakistan at present not only requires 36 to 42 billion dollars (the former figure cited by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its seventh/eighth review documents and the latter by…
