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Cape Town's 'green' map reveals water usage per household
Cape Town's 'green' map reveals water usage per household

Andy Walker

The City of Cape Town has this week made spying on friends, family or even neighbours' water usage habits even easier...read
Sisi vows to protect Egypt's water supply
Sisi vows to protect Egypt's water supply
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
#BizTrends2018: SA has reached its second energy transition tipping point
#BizTrends2018: SA has reached its second energy transition tipping point

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
Trends
#BizTrends2018: Sustainability reporting and performance - observations and trends
#BizTrends2018: Sustainability reporting and performance - observations and trends

Simon Clarke

Large companies continue to face an increasing number of sustainability reporting requirements, both internally and externally, every year... read
#BizTrends2018: Innovation critical to the future of waste management in South Africa
#BizTrends2018: Innovation critical to the future of waste management in South Africa

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, Regional Director of Elanco South Africa
#BizTrends2018: More innovation, not more animals key to ensuring food security

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
CSI & Sustainability
Sustainable supply chains: Chains, levers or webs?
Sustainable supply chains: Chains, levers or webs?

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
Climate Change
Green bonds are taking off - and could help save the planet
Green bonds are taking off - and could help save the planet

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
Start preparing for the pending Carbon Tax Bill
Start preparing for the pending Carbon Tax Bill

Seelan Moonsamy

The South African National Treasury published the Second Draft Carbon Tax Bill for public comment on 14 December 2017... read
Food, Water & Energy Security
Image credit: Esa Alexander
SAB's Cape Town brewery to bottle spring water as Day Zero looms

Dave Chambers

After 200 years of making beer, Newlands Brewery in Cape Town is going into the water business... read
Drug firm has a plan to bypass tap water
Drug firm has a plan to bypass tap water
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
Inclusion & Equality
Inclusivity is key in the fight against HIV
Inclusivity is key in the fight against HIV

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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#FairnessFirst: H&M's diversity manager, #MLKDay and the #pinkify debate

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
Infrastructure and Technology
Loeriesfontein Wind Farm
SA wind energy industry anticipates conclusion of outstanding PPAs in Q1
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
With cheap solar and wind power, is it time to rethink 'energy efficiency'?
With cheap solar and wind power, is it time to rethink 'energy efficiency'?

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
Pollution & Waste Management
Pernod Ricard halts use of plastic straws and stirrers
Pernod Ricard halts use of plastic straws and stirrers
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
Coca-Cola Company pledges to cut plastic packaging waste
Coca-Cola Company pledges to cut plastic packaging waste
The Coca-Cola Company has announced a commitment to become more environmentally friendly by reshaping its approach to packaging... read
Africa
Disabled people in Africa get a raw deal. What's been done to fix this
Disabled people in Africa get a raw deal. What's been done to fix this

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
International
Chinese solar boom sparks global renewables boon: study
Chinese solar boom sparks global renewables boon: study
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
EU sets 2030 target for recyclable plastic packaging
EU sets 2030 target for recyclable plastic packaging
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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Greenpeace
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Oceana
@Oceana
Doomed by their beauty, nautiluses could be headed toward extinction. https://t.co/jGo8O54O3G https://t.co/IKHNUdAOh5
Oxfam
@Oxfam
Last year saw the biggest increase in billionaires in history, one more every two days. This huge increase could ha... https://t.co/agA51btRVs
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