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"There are well-known poster children for the transition to clean technologies.
Norway, for its embrace of electric cars, Australia for rooftop solar and China
for its colossal renewables industrial revolution.
But there are others that you might not have heard as much about.
Nepal, the landlocked Himalayan country, where 76 per cent of new cars are
electric. Or Pakistan, where a homegrown solar boom has sprung up in response
to rising energy prices.
Unshackled from established fossil-fuel industries and outdated technologies,
these countries show how the global south is starting to move faster in the
renewables transition than wealthier nations such as Australia. These shifts
aren't being driven by climate motives, but rather energy security and
economics.
In fact, the world is at a tipping point where renewable energy and electric
cars are becoming so affordable that countries are leapfrogging the era of
fossil fuels to go straight to green solutions, according to Kingsmill Bond, an
energy strategist at global think tank Ember."
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