Helsinki: Latte drinkers may in the future be sipping on java sourced from a petri dish rather than a plantation, say scientists behind a new technique to grow what they hope to be sustainable coffee in a lab. “It’s really coffee, because there is nothing else than coffee material in the product,” Heiko Rischer tells … Read more
GLASGOW: Corporate carbon polluters plant trees to counter their CO2 emissions, but activists warn against greenwashing and say such afforestation schemes detract from the emissions reductions needed to combat climate change. Voluntary carbon offsetting is being hotly debated at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Here’s a backgrounder. How does it work? Carbon offsetting is when a company … Read more
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan needs to make long-term planning to achieve sustainable and all-inclusive economic growth, and the government wanted to draw up concrete proposals for sustainable economic growth through comprehensive and seamless planning across major sectors by taking all stakeholders on board, a senior government official said. Chairing the third meeting of the newly-reconstituted Economic Advisory … Read more
