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Andy Walker The City of Cape Town has this week made spying on friends, family or even neighbours' water usage habits even easier...read |
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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi vowed on Monday, 15 January, to protect Egypt's water supply while striving for peace with the Nile upstream countries...read |
Brenda Martin At SAWEA's annual wind industry conference held in mid-November 2017, the outcome of a major national research study was launched...read |
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| Simon Clarke Large companies continue to face an increasing number of sustainability reporting requirements, both internally and externally, every year... read | | | Jason McNeil South Africa is nowhere near the waste crisis that we are seeing in other developing/emerging economies, however, we are most definitely generating a massive amount of waste... read | | | Andre Westerveld The absolute and undeniable reality is that we have to produce more and do it with less. This can only be done through innovation in food production... read | |
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| Scott Nadler and Jeremy Soboil Customers have tremendous power in the business-to-business (B2B) sustainability world. Just by asking questions of their suppliers, customers send powerful signals about what matters... read |
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| Olaf Weber and Vasundhara Saravade The "tragedy of the horizons," a term coined by Canada's Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has been haunting the financial sector ever since climate change began posing serious threats to the planet... read |
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| Seelan Moonsamy The South African National Treasury published the Second Draft Carbon Tax Bill for public comment on 14 December 2017... read |
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| Dave Chambers After 200 years of making beer, Newlands Brewery in Cape Town is going into the water business... read |
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| Aspen Pharmacare's Cape Town-based subsidiary, Fine Chemicals Corporation, is so concerned about risks posed by the region's drought that it is investing in new infrastructure... read |
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| Steve Letsike In recent years, South Africa has made great strides towards providing support to those infected and affected with HIV... read |
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| Leigh Andrews This week, diversity was a strong focus on social media as H&M announced the appointment of a diversity manager following the 'racist hoodie' outrage, social citizens stood up for civil rights on #MLKDay, and the #pinkifying hashtag spawned lovers and haters alike... read |
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| The South African Wind Energy Association (SAWEA), together with the broader renewable power sector, anticipates the conclusion of the 26 outstanding power purchase agreements (PPAs) in the first quarter of 2018. .. read |
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| Nicholas Good and Eduardo Martínez Ceseña The need to cut emissions from the energy sector has motivated the use of hydro, solar and wind power, and the development of more efficient buildings that consume less energy... read |
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| Alcoholic drinks giant, Pernod Ricard, has joined the war on plastic by declaring that it will no longer use non-biodegradable plastic straws and stirrers... read |
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| The Coca-Cola Company has announced a commitment to become more environmentally friendly by reshaping its approach to packaging... read |
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| Laura-Stella Enonchong The African Commission has drafted a new protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights that emphasises the importance of the right of people with disability to have equal recognition before the law... read |
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| A Chinese boom in solar panel installation last year helped drive global investment in renewable clean energy technology to record levels, a new study showed Tuesday, 16 January... read |
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| The European Union unveiled plans on Tuesday, 16 January, for all plastic packaging in Europe to be recyclable by 2030 and to phase out single-use plastic like coffee cups to fight pollution... read |
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