The initiative aims to capture air pollution and store it in the ground
Along with the Star Bottle, the company will be opening Green Zones across the country
The carbon market: a potential planet saver or greenwashing that gives polluting companies an opportunity to evade reducing their emissions?
If you still think climate change is a problem for the future, you had better think again
Conference sees delegates setting the continent’s agenda for COP28
Plan to get inhabitants of Zimbabwe’s second city to cycle to reduce pollution faces hurdles, including that two-wheelers are spurned by the upwardly mobile
The EU, US and China wield the most carbon emissions, yet Africa is left paying the price, again. The continent needs to build its own resilience to combat a declining economy.
Shutting down Eskom’s coal plants and shifting to cleaner technologies will bring ‘cleaner air’ to the polluted Mpumalanga Highveld, says the utility’s environmental manager
The first vehicle of its kind in the country will arrive by the end of this year and it will be rigorously tested under local conditions
South Africa has the immediate technical potential to produce 3.2 billion litres of alternative aviation fuels annually
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Industries can take advantage of carbon tax allowances if they finance projects mitigation projects
No to ‘climate-stupid’ agriculture
Chief executives have begun to recognise the importance of sustainability, but we urgently need climate science-aligned policies that provide a new framework for business
Solar-generated pumps are pumping larger volumes of water for wildlife than diesel used to, and spekboom is helping offset carbon emissions
Cyril Ramaphosa says the terms of $8.5-million climate finance offered to South Africa by wealthy countries are not yet set in stone
Environmental organisations say that COP26 ended with ​​90 new coal power projects, worth a total of 88GW, are likely to be cancelled
China will keeps its promise about not funding coal abroad, Chen Xiadong tells Fossil Free South Africa
South Africa, the continent’s largest emitter, is not among several African countries that joined the UK-led coalition committing to phase out the fossil fuel
Health professionals have called on leaders at COP26 to prioritise changing food systems to reduce their effect on the climate, as well as to prevent deaths
The UN committee has been accused of ‘turning its back’ on the children who filed a groundbreaking legal complaint with it against five countries
The Climate Justice Charter Movement has critiqued the manifestos of the main parties contesting the local government elections and found them ‘shallow’
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The bank’s chief risk officer says banks can’t stand on the sidelines of the climate crisis debate
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Only Gambia has a plan that, if everyone acted the same way, would see global heating kept to below 1.5°C.
This year’s UN climate conference will be the first in-person meeting since COP25 in 2019, when developing countries walked away, outraged by the poor outcome
The treasury said it will be better for South Africa’s domestic carbon pricing to increase significantly because this will open the door for negotiations with the European Union when the new carbon border adjusted mechanism takes effect in 2026
Some argue that nuclear power will get us to our clean energy goals faster, but other experts say it is unsafe, unaffordable and unnecessary
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Restoring ecosystems — wetlands, savannahs and grasslands — will mitigate the effects of global warming
Staff and students argue it is unethical for university to profit from an industry that damages the planet and distorts science
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The just transition that is currently being executed is a balance between energy security and climate change, according to one analyst
China’s emissions exceed those of developed countries, in large part because of its population of more than 1.4-billion people
Failing to invest in a greener economy could cost South Africa trillions, but calls to mobilise capital come amid fiscal strain
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The University of the Free State’s green project aims to curb environmental impact of concrete by using industrial waste and by-products