Greening The Future

Mail & Guardian opens nominations for the 2025 Greening the Future Awards

The awards celebrate people, projects and organisations that champion environmental concerns

The Mail & Guardian Greening the Future awards, which was launched in 1998, is an annual celebration of individuals, companies, communities and NGOs busy working on making the…

The awards will coincide with COP28

Hard work and passion paid off for Rifumo Mathebula, an environmental educator, filmmaker and photojournalist

The awards are in recognition of people who are doing their part to ensure a sustainable future

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

We highlight the work of those accelerating sustainable living in SA – at a vital moment for the environment

Court puts a spoke in producers’ wheel by agreeing that they are responsible for their products’ waste.

Concerned countries want a new phase of the protocol to kick in immediately after it expires, writes Fiona Macleod.

In national Water Month, Sipho Kings McDermott looks at the challenges to South Africa’s water resources and taps into a few possible solutions.

Jane Goodall, who began her seminal work on the chimpanzees of Africa 50 years ago, is now touring the world with another important message.

Carbon credits are a new asset class in the global green economy, writes Yolandi Groenewald.

Cup’s carbon footprint could take years to mop up, reports Faranaaz Parker.

The 2010 judges’ panel