Cop26

Much has been made about the $8.5 billion pledged to support South Africa’s Just Energy Transition

No ‘credible pathway’ in place to limit warming to 1.5°C

Civil society and affected people must be involved in the development of an investment plan and in discussions with international partners

Negotiators are concerned that 80% of the money promised by the UK, US, Germany, France and the European Union is in the form of high interest loans

Researchers say South Africa needs a ‘deep just transition’ that goes beyond moving to renewable energy

The event is a chance for African countries to embrace national interests in climate-change mitigation actions and socio-economic development.

South Africa must reject green capitalism and develop a public pathway to energy security

The truth is that our carbon tax is way too low to act as a real deterrent

To force a climate breakthrough, leaders must listen to and promote the stories of young people

A new study has found a lack of co-ordinated policy response to these interconnected issues

But Greenpeace Africa says the president must let go of ‘gas fantasies’

Mminele, who last year stepped down as Absa chief executive, will head the newly established Presidential Climate Finance Task Team

The connections between health, climate change, declining public trust and democratic legitimacy, and geopolitical instability must be recognised

Evidence suggests that green lending to reduce developing countries’ CO2 emissions displays all the pathologies associated with financial manias.

The climate crisis will hit Africa hard. The Covid-19 crisis has shown that African states can’t rely on the Global North to do the right thing. Nevertheless, there are signs…