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| Climate Change |
 | ECKART ZOLLNER Reaching our goal of net-zero emissions requires urgent change and innovation across multiple industries. With energy production and usage accounting for nearly three-quarters of global emissions, it is apparent that there is no single industry on which to pin the responsibility... Read |
 | AMY GILIAM South Africa's laws and history of public participation give us the tools we need to fight for an equitable and green country... Read |
 | MARISA ACKHURST Climate change, global sea-level rise, increased storminess. These 'predictions' by scientists are fast becoming a reality... Read |
| Covid-19 |
 | AMY PIETERSE, ISSUED BY GINKGO AGENCY As the year draws to its long-awaited end, now is the time to find common ground and embrace hope for the future... Read |
| Environment & Natural Resources |
 | CHARLENE JANION-SCHEEPERS Healthy soils are vital for food, biodiversity, and a healthy planet, but this below-ground world is often overlooked. The launch of the State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity Report highlights this... Read |
 | A new paper, "Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change" published in PNAS, ecologists and climate change specialists argue that current nature conservation practices are not sufficiently flexible and dynamic to weather the impacts of climate change... Read |
 | ANNE-LIESE NAUDE (KRUGER) Forests are good for the planet: they purify the air and moderate the climate... Read |
| Food, Water & Energy Security |
 | Amid the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged the world economy over the last year, the Kenyan government has continued to make positive strides towards infrastructure development... Read |
 | The 26 new wind and solar projects are located in Australia, France, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Sweden, the UK, and the US... Read |
| Green Economy |
 | Kirsten Barnes, the project lead for SA Plastics Pact, GreenCape, and Kevin O'Brian, the Group Sustainability and Risk Executive for SPAR, discuss the Plastics Pact and the vision for a circular economy for plastics in SA... View |
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 | Ambassador Riina Kionka, the Head of the Delegation of the European Union to South Africa, Ambassador Martin Schäfer, the German Ambassador to SA, and Ambassador Aurélien Lechevallier, the French Ambassador to SA, discuss the importance of investing in a green recovery for South Africa as well as the EU's projects in South Africa. View |
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| Pollution & Waste Management |
 | MOLOGADI MAKWELA Waste reclaimers - sometimes referred to as waste 'pickers' - may well be the unsung heroes of our global recycling efforts... Read |
| Africa |
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 | ADEJUWON SOYINKA Over nine months into Covid-19 outbreak in Nigeria, there are concerns about how well the country has managed the pandemic.... Read |
 | The first phase of construction of a $1m research clinic in Entebbe has been completed... Read |
 | The Digital4Agriculture Initiative aims to foster African startups in the agricultural sector and strengthen the long-term living conditions of local small farmers by increasing productivity and quality... Read |
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 | The Health Department will launch the Covid SA travel system, a digital screening platform that allows travellers to complete the required travel health questionnaire on their personal devices ahead of their arrival at ports of entry... Read |
 | According to data from the World Bank, SMMEs represent about 90% of businesses and more than 50% of employment globally. In emerging economies, like South Africa, it showed that formal SMMEs contribute up to 40% of national income... Read |
 | Google has revealed the results of its 2020 Year in Search, sharing what the world and South Africans searched for, asked about, looked for, ate and dreamt of exploring in 2020... Read |
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