Latest articles on Carbon Emissions

What a sustainable Covid-19 recovery could look like

Coronavirus Oluwaseun Oguntuase - 9 Aug 2020

Bioeconomy — using renewable biological resources — will allow Africa to transform its systems and create a viable economic future, global warming

Invest in children to give them a better world

Environment Helen Clark - 25 Jun 2020

This entails putting them at the centre of national strategies, but doing it without high CO2 releases

The story of SA’s biggest power plant, and its little town

Article Tristen Taylor & Nathalie Bertrams - 29 Apr 2020

Before Big Coal, Lephalale was a small town with little water and few jobs. Two power plants have changed it

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Eskom lied to hide its deadly levels of pollution

Article Sipho Kings - 29 Apr 2020

Eskom says its air pollution kills more than 300 people a year. Other estimates put it at 10 times that

Remember, corporations are adept at deflection campaigns

Article Sipho Kings - 2 Apr 2020

In this moment where those corporations are “stepping up” to the Covid-19 challenge, let’s not forget their true character and where and how they have made their money

The BMW i3 — When electric proves it is the future

Article Sipho Kings - 24 Mar 2020

As one of the first cars to make electric vehicles desirable, the i3 has continued refining a car that is a nice place to be. And a brilliant drive

‘Ghost’ flights are yet another example of our polluting ways

Article Sipho Kings - 12 Mar 2020

Due to covid-19, there are aeroplanes jetting about with few, if no passengers in them, which means those planes are releasing unnecessary greenhouse gases that will trap heat and warm this planet for decades to come

Dieselgate sees recall of Mercedes vehicles

Article Agency - 28 Feb 2020

Daimler is accused of hiding that it used illegal software in diesel cars to cheat emissions tests

The commons, not the market

Analysis Katie Kedward - 28 Feb 2020

Greening the financial system is essential, but the environment can’t be shoehorned into the logic of finance

Motoring dreams for the future, now

Article Luke Feltham - 27 Feb 2020

Technology that would have been the stuff of dreams in the past decade is quickly coming to life. Practical, silly or bombastic, it’s news that has heads turning, writes Luke Feltham

The path to a zero carbon future

Business Clyde Mallinson - 17 Jan 2020

The transition to a decarbonised economy based on water, wind and solar energy will save trillions, plus people’s lives and climate crisis costs

South Africa has huge ‘green fuels’ potential. But it needs to act now

Article David Richard Walwyn & Rod Crompton - 14 Jan 2020

South Africa needs to seriously start thinking about shifting its energy focus. This is for two reasons. The first is that the country’s important...

Australian ‘megablaze’ brought under control

Environment Andrew Beatty - 13 Jan 2020

Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia's largest "megablaze" under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite...

The good, the bad and the vegan

Article Annerine Snyman - 13 Dec 2019

There’s a global push for people to become vegans, or at least eat less meat, to reduce their carbon footprint

A monumental challenge

Article Jon Duncan - 29 Nov 2019

South Africa can transition from coal to renewable energy – if it lays careful plans

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The tender that keeps on giving

Athandiwe Saba - 18 Sep 2020

A battle between three North West departments has exposed how a firm was paid half a billion rand (and counting) for a R122-million contract

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SANDF mum on serial rapist claim

Sabelo Skiti - 17 Sep 2020

An internal report on sexual offences at a military academy says the defence force failed a deceased rape victim and has called for an internal investigation

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SA’s level best: Welcome to the new normal

Lester Kiewit - 17 Sep 2020

It’s a lifestyle that South Africans will have to maintain as the country navigates an almost post-lockdown situation in which the coronavirus remains very alive and active

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Request for Quotation for Benguela Current Convention Secretariat

special reports - 19 Sep 2020

A chartered aircraft for an aerial survey and counting software for cape fur seals and seabirds in Angola, Namibia and South Africa is required

Special Reports

Fifteen additional speakers for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

SingularityU hosts global line-up with an extra 15 speakers to address thought-provoking topics to help solve the world's grand challenges

Special Reports

Recyling water and waste management

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

One solution to South Africa's water shortage is to install infrastructure that will save rainwater from run-off into the stormwater system

Special Reports

Covid-19 and CVD: The heart in the time of crisis

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

The pandemic has been a time of great humility for health workers and tactics have had to be changed if they weren’t working

Special Reports

POPIA: it’s not as scary as you think

special reports - 16 Sep 2020

Companies that get proactive about compliance are creating huge strategic advantages for themselves — they are able to reduce operational costs

Special Reports

CUT declared as medium risk

special reports - 15 Sep 2020

‘Our major challenge at the university is the access to appropriate technology and internet connectivity for our students’

Special Reports

Headline Speakers announced for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 12 Sep 2020

SingularityU announces multi-national line up with world-renowned speakers addressing ground-breaking topics to solve the global grand challenges

Special Reports

JSE lists two new global ETFs

special reports - 11 Sep 2020

'Impact investing has become increasingly topical and for us to provide investors with access to sustainable investment options is a key focus'