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SA will need R1.5 trillion for energy transition: Magwenya

LOCAL Presidency Spokesperson Vincent Magwenya says South Africa is determined to make sure that the energy issue is addressed adequately. Addressing the media in Pretoria on Sunday, Mangwenya says as the Just Energy Transition investment plan begins to take off, the country will need R1.5 trillion in the next 5 years. The office of the President updates the nation on the President’s program for the week. President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected […]

14 November 2022

International

Past eight years eight hottest on record, UN report warns

INTERNATIONAL The past eight years are on track to be the hottest ever recorded, a United Nations report has found, as UN chief Antonio Guterres warned that the planet was sending “a distress signal”. The UN’s weather and climate body released its annual state of the global climate report on Sunday with another warning that the target to limit temperature increases to 1.5C (2.7F) was “barely within reach”. The acceleration […]

8 November 2022

International

Cop27: UN urges countries to address climate-displaced peoples

INTERNATIONAL The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is calling on world leaders to address the impact that climate change and natural disasters have on the displacement of people, as countries gather in Egypt for the annual climate conference, Cop27. "COP27 must equip countries and communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis to prepare for extreme weather, to adapt, and minimize the impact of the climate emergency," Filippo Grandi said in […]

8 November 2022

Local

Eskom considering taking on climate funds as equity injection

SA’s state power company is planning to propose that some of the funding the country secured to help tackle climate change take the form of loans to the government that could be converted to equity in the utility when needed. The arrangement would enable Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd to access the $8.5bn (R127.33bn) pledged by the US, UK, Germany, France and the EU without adding to its debt burden, a […]

22 March 2022

Local

SA youth activists to join global march on Friday for ‘climate justice’

The African Climate Alliance is planning protests on Friday in Cape Town alongside similar marches planned elsewhere in the world to demand urgent action to tackle the climate crisis. In a statement on Tuesday organisers said as an alternative to in-person protests, which will be muted this year due to Covid-19, participants could digitally support the marches by using their social media to demand climate justice and a “just recovery” […]

23 September 2020

International News

Anger as Ugandan activist cropped out of photo with white peers

Social media users have come out in support of Ugandan climate advocate Vanessa Nakate after she was cropped out of a photograph taken with her white peers in Davos. Nakate accused the media of racism after The Associated Press news agency removed her from a photograph taken with fellow activists Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson. The image was taken on Friday after the young campaigners gave […]

27 January 2020

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