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CSI & Sustainability
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ISSUED BY TRIALOGUE
Registration for the Trialogue Business in Society Conference closes on Wednesday, 3 April 2019. Join more than 400 development stakeholders for a dynamic exchange of ideas on how to enhance and sustain impact in development work... Read
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Climate Change
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VANESSA HILTON-BARBER
While there's pessimism in the air with regards to global product sales, every day there are also groundbreaking changes being implemented by brands and activists who genuinely want to be the change when it comes to sustainability... Read
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The Deep Decarbonization Pathways (DDP) network has published a paper providing strategies for countries to decarbonise based on their national development objectives... Read
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Environment & Natural Resources
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As the Western Cape continues to save water, the hotel, located directly on the rocky Atlantic Coast in Granger Bay, Cape Town, will supply fresh water produced in its own, in-house desalination plant... Read
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Through the Mintirho Foundation, Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa's will invest R25m in Hya Matla Organics, a black-owned startup that turns water hyacinth into commercial products... Read
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Tiny hooves pounded the earth. Terrified animals were desperately fleeing the crackling flames as raging fires devoured Hermanus. All Corné Uys could think of was whether they'd make it out alive... View
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Global snack company Mondelez International, Inc. has announced plans of adding the message 'Helping Farmers to Grow' on its chocolate products, in considering environmental, social and ethical factors when choosing where to source key ingredients... Read
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Food, Water & Energy Security
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In the midst of the rolling blackouts last week, former President Jacob Zuma went on record as saying that his pet project nuclear deal with Russia would have averted the crisis at Eskom... Read
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A collective of academics and practitioners has launched a new initiative that will document and capture key learnings from the 2017-2018 Cape Town water crisis... Read
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Inclusion, Equity & Human Rights
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GLENDA DANIELS
South African media has been criticised on social media for its initially superficial and underwhelming coverage of the massive floods in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi in the wake of the devastating Tropical Cyclone Idai... Read
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Who goes canoeing through a township? For Siyanda Sopangisa, it's a natural progression from his days of swimming in Khayelitsha's wetlands... View
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Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology
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The Community Chest Impumelelo Social Innovations Awards Programme (CCISIA) programme identifies, recognises and awards socially innovative initiatives in Africa... Read
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CAREY-ANNE JENNINGS AND SESHREE GOVENDER
Small and innovative renewable energy projects battle to raise funds through formal channels. One possible solution is to reach out to communities with an interest in those projects to help fund them through crowdfunding initiatives... Read
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The Skoll Foundation has announced the five winners of the 2019 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship... Read
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Pollution & Waste Management
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TRISIA FARRELLY
A powerful marriage between the fossil fuel and plastic industries threatens to exacerbate the global plastic pollution crisis... Read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
This year sustainability was a golden thread throughout Propak Africa 2019, with many exhibitors embracing good environmental practices... Read
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Africa Month
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ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
Bizcommunity, the wholly independently owned media brand made in Africa for Africa, is proud to announce the launch of the Bizcommunity.africa domain... Read
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A new study published in the Nature International Journal of Science has revealed that improved housing had doubled in Sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2015... Read
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DAVID OBURA
Kenyans have taken to social media to protest against what they claim is illegal sand harvesting off Diani beach, one of the country's most popular coastal areas. The Conversation Africa's Moina Spooner spoke to David Obura about why this is an issue. Read
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Danone has opened a new Nutricia production facility in the Netherlands, to meet growing, global demand for specialised infant formula... Read
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There are interesting shifts in African manufacturer and retailer business priorities and a growing appreciation for the fact that no one-size-fits-all approach is enough to ensure ongoing success in sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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