While businesses only need to calculate their liability and submit their carbon tax return once a year, compliance with the Carbon Tax Act itself is not a once-off accomplishment, nor is it as difficult to achieve as some organisations think...
Eckart Zollner 7 Apr 2021
According to the latest PwC Net Zero Economy Index, a decarbonisation rate of 11.7% per annum is now required to keep...
Biodegradable Future is pleased to announce that Vita Go Beverages will be rolling out with Biodegradable Future Bottles...
Issued by Biodegradable Future 24 Nov 2020
It's high time the international shipping industry radically curbed its emissions. The industry must set a net-zero target and adopt a realistic plan to meet it...
Christiaan De Beukelaer 18 Nov 2020
Modern agriculture releases lots of different greenhouse gas emissions, each with complex effects on the global climate...
John Lynch 9 Nov 2020
The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries recently issued a notice governing the submission of "Subsequent Pollution Prevention Plans" and the Proposed process to manage carbon budgets for the period 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022...
Gillian Niven and Paula-Ann Novotny 3 Nov 2020
The age of a forest can influence how effectively it offsets our emissions...
Tom Pugh 31 Jul 2020
Scientists around the world are looking for ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere...
Jaime Leigh Johnson and Jacqueline L Raw 26 Feb 2020
South Africa needs to seriously start thinking about shifting its energy focus. This is for two reasons...
David Richard Walwyn and Rod Crompton 10 Jan 2020
Following the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in 2015, a number of European countries have made commitments to move to a net zero emissions economy...
Brett Chrystal 2 Oct 2019
It will be very difficult to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by enough to halt global heating at 1.5°C - the threshold at which catastrophic climate change becomes more likely...
Marcelle McManus 3 Jul 2019
Climate change needs urgent action by all countries, and by all means...
Harald Winkler and Andrew Marquard 31 May 2019
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni says government proposes that come April 2019, three items, including sanitary pads, will be added to the zero-rated list...
The Life After Coal/Impilo Ngaphandle Kwamalahle Campaign has called for a more robust, proactive Climate Change Bill...
A staggering 235m items of unwanted clothing were forecast to be dumped in UK landfill in 2017, while the average American is estimated to bin 81lb (37kg) of used clothing annually...
Naomi Braithwaite 8 Aug 2018
In an era of uncertainty, when it comes to both power supply and pricing, renewable energy sources can provide certainty in both supply and costs...
Louise Scholtz 20 Jul 2018
From a water perspective, we live in a 'world of Cape Towns'...
Dhesigen Naidoo 20 Jul 2018
Many argue that a carbon tax effective from 1 January 2019 and as currently framed, is achievable, but not necessarily the best mechanism...
Justine Sweet, Issued by LexisNexis 19 Apr 2018
Carbon- and energy-intensive companies in the mining, steel, chemical, cement and paper industries have come out against the carbon tax proposed by the Treasury...
Linda Ensor 16 Mar 2018
For decades after polyester's invention in the 1940s, there wasn't much exciting innovation in the fibres used in the world's textiles. Until now...
Jackie May 14 Dec 2017
Board-level engagement on climate change remains high. This is according to a recent survey issued by PwC on the challenges around climate change...
After being in draft format for nearly two years, the National Greenhouse Gas Reporting Regulations were published by the minister of Environmental Affairs on 3 April 2017...
Simon Clarke 13 Apr 2017
According to the Southern Africa arm of the Environmental Resources Management group, some mid-size companies not generally viewed as big polluters could end up paying more carbon tax than mining, manufacturing and metals-processing players with larger CO2 footprints...
The year 2016 will "very likely" be the hottest on record, the UN said on Monday, 14 November, warning of calamitous consequences if the march of global warming cannot be halted...
The PwC Low Carbon Economy Index tracks the progress G20 countries have made to meet their carbon budgets and decarbonise their economies since 2000...
For the third year in a row, global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry have barely grown, while the global economy has continued to grow strongly. This level of decoupling of carbon emissions from global economic growth is unprecedented...
Pep Canadell, Corinne Le Quéré, Glen Peters, and R 14 Nov 2016
The world's nations must urgently ramp up commitments to cut planet-warming carbon emissions to avoid "human tragedy", the United Nations warned on Thursday, 3 November...
The PwC Low Carbon Economy Index tracks the progress G20 countries have made to meet their carbon budgets and decarbonise their economies since 2000...
The Department of Environmental Affairs says emission reduction options in the power sector remain a priority to meet the country's overall greenhouse gas reduction targets over the coming few years...
According to a new assessment, individual country pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would need to be strengthened in order to limit future climate change to well below the 2°C limit included in the Paris climate agreement...
Companies that voluntarily participate in the Department of Environmental Affairs' carbon budget plan will qualify for tax relief of 5% under the envisaged carbon tax regime...
Linda Ensor 4 May 2016
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says the department will hand over more mechanised vehicles to registered e-waste collectors...
Environmental news, as a rule, doesn't deal in triumphs. So the sight of leaders holding their arms aloft in celebration after clinching the historic Paris climate agreement will stand as a defining image of 2015 - a moment of cartharsis after more than two decades of infuriatingly sluggish climate diplomacy...
Michael Hopkin 28 Dec 2015
Africa is the poorest continent, with the fastest growing population. Rapid and sustained economic development is needed to overcome poverty...
Mark New 30 Sep 2015
WWF South Africa has expressed its concern about the vague and defensive position taken by the South African government in its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) to the 21st United Nations Climate Change Negotiations Conference (UNCCNC)...
The carbon and climate change advisory firm, Promethium Carbon, has received an award as the Best Project Implementer of the British High Commission's Prosperity Fund...
A networking session on the scope and design of the proposed carbon tax for South Africa that is to be implemented during 2016 will be held on Wednesday, 13 May 2015 from 10am to 1pm at the Wits Club in Johannesburg...
Promethium Carbon recently demonstrated the market readiness for the trading of carbon offsets in South Africa on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)...
There is potential for alignment of the proposed carbon offset trading scheme that is currently under consideration by National Treasury and the carbon budgeting approach required by the National Climate Change Response Paper (NCCRP).
Companies in South Africa have to date managed greenhouse gas emissions internally and on a voluntary basis. Most listed companies have made information about their climate change work public through annual reporting.
The Treasury has released a discussion paper on carbon offsetting for public comment as it prepares for the introduction of a carbon tax in 2016.
Sue Blaine 2 May 2014
A new report released recently by WWF-South Africa and WWF-UK, in collaboration with Carbon Tracker, Trucost, SinCo and the Government Employee Pension Fund (GEPF), shows that institutional investors are failing to systematically factor in climate change and freshwater risks when making investment decisions.
According to Independent Online, Environment Minister Edna Molewa said that government is going to pursue a carrot and stick approach on carbon tax.
Global Carbon Exchange (GCX), a local carbon and sustainability consultancy, have announced a partnership with global sustainability software providers, CarbonSystems.
ITB Berlin is the world's leading travel trade show with some 100 000 trade visitors and more than 60 000 members of the public that will visit the show between 9 and 13 March 2011.
Mariette du Toit-Helmbold 11 Mar 2011