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Climatic Change: Torrid Times Ahead for Less Developed Countries
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13 January, 2010

Less Developed Countries (LDCs) are facing disproportionately greater threats to their economies. This is partly due to their relatively weaker mechanisms of adapting to a changing climate.  During the Copenhagen meeting last December, African countries were keen on pushing for a binding political agreement requiring the industrialised countries to meet their carbon reduction targets within a specified timeframe

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Guiding the Urban Agricultural Donkey

If we seriously want to support urban agriculture so that it can help achieve a revised land redistribution target, we need to find innovative ways to obtain and keep land in and around urban areas for agricultural activity. We need to find ways to guide urban agricultural development into areas where we want farming to take place and guide residential, business, industrial and other development into other areas where we want future urban development to take place

Climatic change: Mind Equity Between Generations

The main problem affecting the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is the ability of the environment to continue to supply the resources and deal with the waste generated by present generations. The more this generation takes non-renewable resources from the environment, the less there will be for future generations to use

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We must all save electricity

Do you still remember load shedding? Those cold, dark nights without any TV or heaters? Having to leave the office 15 minutes before a scheduled ‘shed’ so that you don’t have to walk down 29 flights of stairs to get home? The crazy traffic because traffic lights were not working?
Green tax, brown investment

The 2009 budget: WWF (The World Wide Fund for Nature) welcomes tax reforms, but cautions on public investment and finance guarantees.
From dirty energy to a climate friendly economy?

There is much focus on the debates about South Africa’s plans to deal with the climate change. Government's plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 has also been seen as commendable, as it would be an incredible achievement for South Africa, the biggest greenhouse gas emitter on the African continent, with 73 percent of African emissions. Victor Munnik and David Hallowes look at some of the issues in the debate.
E-Waste in South Africa

Keith Anderson of eWASA cautioned that: “Africa is becoming a dumping ground for America and Europe under the guise of donations.”

The Environmental Handbook

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Electricity Crisis in South Africa

There is a political and energy crisis in South Africa. From the point of view of many ordinary South Africans, Eskom and the government have failed the people.
Power Crisis - A Reality Facing South Africa

According to Eskom, load shedding is when there is not enough electricity available to meet the demand from all Eskom customers.
NGO Profile: The Mvula Trust

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06/25/2009 SAHRC statement on the announcement of the granting of 31.3 percent electricity tariff increase to Eskom by NERSA
05/05/2009 Surplus People Project Poor, Black Cape Flats Farmers face eviction threat
03/31/2009 Fossil Fools Day 2009, Sasol to Get An Award
03/16/2009 Surplus People Project Xingwana's "Use it or lose it" regected by land rights campaign
02/18/2009 Earthlife Africa Johannesburg No Amount of Redesign Will Save the PBMR
02/16/2009 The Paraffin Safety Association of Southern Africa Ivory Park Survey Reveals Many Energy Safety Challenges
10/28/2008 NGOs to March for Free Basic and Clean Electricity
08/26/2008 Bench Marks Foundation Condemns Proposed Amendments to Mining Law
05/12/2008 World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day
03/17/2008 Earthlife Africa Welcomes Delay of Alcan Smelter
03/11/2008 Paraffin Consumers have Rights Too - PASASA
03/10/2008 WWF and IUCN Launch New Green Online Community for Youth, Supported by Nokia
01/30/2008 ELA-JHB: Sustainable Energy & Climate Change Project Civil Society Launches 10-Point Plan
01/08/2008 OCHA: Early Floods Jeopardise Southern Africa
12/06/2007 PASASA: SABS Publishes a New Standard on Pressurized Paraffin-fuelled Appliances
11/22/2007 ELA-JHB: Eskom’s Price Hikes and the Poor
11/12/2007 Biowatch Court Ruling: Gross Miscarriage of Environmental Justice
10/09/2007 PASASA: Minerals and Energy Minister Acknowledges the Need to Resolve the Issue of Paraffin Safety
09/25/2007 Oxfam Welcomes High-level UN Push to Tackle Climate Change
09/25/2007 Floods Affect over 1.5 Million in Africa

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