A global transition to “clean energy” is still far too slow to meet climate pledges and risks fueling even greater price volatility, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday.
“We are not investing enough to meet future energy needs and the uncertainties are setting the stage for a volatile period ahead,” IEA executive director Fatih Birol said. “The social and economic benefits of accelerating clean energy transitions are huge, and the costs of inaction are immense.”
In its annual <i>World Energy Outlook</i> report published just weeks before the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland the IEA said that investment in clean
Lifting an entry ban on overseas workers is being discussed, with people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be the first allowed in, Minister of Labor Hsu Ming-chun (許銘春) said yesterday, while the Ministry of Health and Welfare updated the vaccination rate in Taiwan.
“Agencies have been discussing supporting measures once the ban is lifted, and fully vaccinated migrant workers will be given priority,” Hsu said ahead of a meeting of the Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei.
Arriving migrant workers would be required to present a certificate of vaccination and a negative polymerase chain
FULLY VACCINATED: Overseas workers wanting to enter Taiwan would have to test negative for COVID-19 and quarantine for two weeks, the labor minister said/ Staff writer, with CNA