The party’s vision for Eskom seems to be one designed to benefit vested interests rather than the greater good
On a provincial level, programmes such as Gauteng’s The Innovation Hub are helping to create green economic growth
It seems that politicians aren’t paying attention to the floods, fires and droughts spinning our world out of control
Greening the financial system is essential, but the environment can’t be shoehorned into the logic of finance
About 25 years ago, Baldwyn Torto and his team taught themselves to talk to locusts. Now, Simon Allison brings you the story of the swarms eating their way across the continent
Global cooperation is essential if climate action is to be effective, amid the right-wing onslaught against multilateralism
The world needs a new deal to protect its natural environment
The new figure is in line with World Health Organisation estimates of 4.2 million deaths each year linked to ground-level air pollution, mostly from heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and acute respiratory infections in children
The Mail & Guardian and the Eugene Saldanha Memorial Fund, a project of CAF Southern Africa, are looking for a fellow to report on the climate crisis for a year.
Hundreds of Amazon employees Sunday openly criticised the online retail giant’s environmental record, in violation of the company’s communications policy. More than 300 signed a Medium blog post by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ), which is pushing the company to go further in its climate change mitigation plan which was announced with great publicity […]
The 50th meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) got under way in the ski resort with an avowed focus on climate change but with starkly different visions over global warming laid bare
YouTube has driven millions of viewers to climate denial videos, a US activist group said on Thursday as it called for stopping “free promotion of misinformation” at the platform. New York-based Avaaz said it scrutinised results of Google-owned YouTube searches using the terms “global warming,” “climate change,” and “climate manipulation” to see what was offered […]
Ocean temperatures last year were the hottest in recorded history, driving destructive weather around the world and pushing a rise in sea levels. This is according to research — titled Record-setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019 — published this week by a team of scientists from China and the United States in the peer-reviewed Advances […]
Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia’s largest “megablaze” under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires. New South Wales firefighters said they finally had the upper hand in the fight against the vast Gospers Mountain fire on Sydney’s northwestern outskirts, which has been burning for […]
The government is reaffirming its commitment to coal. But as the crisis deepens, climate barbarism is no longer an option
The impact of climate change on agriculture and food production is clear: the sector will suffer. Here’s what needs to be done
Firefighters joined by fresh teams from the US and Canada were taking advantage of rainy and cooler conditions to tackle out-of-control blazes
If we don’t do enough, in a decade’s time there’ll be droughts, floods, wildfires and crop failure on an apocalyptic scale
The real test will come next year in Glasgow, when countries have to make concrete commitments to reducing emissions
The bank provides vital financial backing for green initiatives
There’s a global push for people to become vegans, or at least eat less meat, to reduce their carbon footprint
"Future efforts must reflect the real costs of our fossil fuel economy and aid those most affected."
People of all ages must challenge governments and fossil fuel industries to do more than pay lip service to the global crisis
The UNEP said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6%, each year, every year until 2030 to limit global temperature rises to 1.5°C
The record of South Africa’s banks and its top 10 carbon emitters in disclosing steps to mitigate climate-related risks is poor
The politicians pushed mass tourism at the cost of human capital, so the historic (depopulated) city wasn’t prepared for the extreme tides
The 2015 Paris Agreement calls for blocking global warming at well below 2C, and 1.5C if possible
The latest report card on how we are doing as a country to reduce emissions is in — and we’re not doing well
We must continue to hold manufacturers to account and push for better waste management
Developing countries such as ours cannot follow the same growth path that Western economies have taken over the last century and a half
The financial sector will need to play a leading role in scaling up green initiatives, de-risking projects for investors, and optimising funding costs
Young people are demanding that governments act against climate change. Here is a Cape Town schoolgirl who laid a legal complaint at the UN