https://www.bizcommunity.com/416/640.html Southern Africa news 15 Sustainable Development news - Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/416/640.html en-us Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:10:41 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/south-africa-and-zimbabwe-enter-landmark-water-sharing-deal-349568a Water and Sanitation Minister Senzo Mchunu and the Zimbabwean Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, Dr Anxious Jongwe Masuka, have signed an agreement for the transfer of treated water from Beitbridge Water Treatment Works to Musina. 1-246893 Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:43:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/640/243578.html Namibia began construction on Monday of Africa's first decarbonised iron plant, to be powered exclusively by green hydrogen, the country's investment promotion body said. 1-243578 Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:10:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/640/235611.html The saturation of environmental journalism - focused on the Paris Agreement, COP27 and associated topics - is resulting in construction professionals' apparent boredom when sustainability is raised. However, the vigorous campaigning, according to recent reports, is warranted, substantiated by increasing extreme weather events. 1-235611 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:07:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/640/234271.html SRK Consulting recently completed a Global Land Outlook (GLO) report for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), titled Regional Thematic Report for Southern Africa: Leveraging the land, water and energy nexus in SADC. 1-234271 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:37:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/494/234167.html In June 2022, a fire outbreak at a hospital construction site in Istanbul, Turkey, destroyed most of the newly installed medical and security devices, and injured three people. A few days later, firefighters from West Fargo in North Dakota attended a flaming construction site behind the town's Costco. And a month after that, a blaze broke out at a railway development in Stuttgart, Germany. 1-234167 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:17:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/148/702/233343.html Namibia said at the COP27 summit on Tuesday, 8 November, that it had secured over €540m in climate finance from the Dutch government and European Investment Bank. 1-233343 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:21:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/233249.html Kenya has had to commit roughly 6% of its GDP to deal with the impacts of climate change - resources that could have been invested in other vital areas of development. 1-233249 Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:30:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/640/232834.html Persistently high temperatures and related heat stress are a big problem for people living in cities, especially in slums and informal settlements. It's a problem that is expected to continue. 1-232834 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:02:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/209/360/232167.html German-led engineering firm CPS is building the world's tallest green building - a 28-storey apartment tower designed in hybrid timber technology. Named Burj Zanzibar, the high-rise is designed to stand 96 metres tall and would be Africa's first sustainable high-rise. 1-232167 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/702/231624.html As investors in global cities, we have been using planetary-scale environmental geospatial data since 2019. We have been continuously investigating and mining datasets more commonly found in academic research - including those published by space agencies such as NASA - to tease out the key environmental risks of our investments. 1-231624 Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:49:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Southern Africa