Eco Minute 13:30

BULLETIN 2 July 1:30 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Eco Minute:

# Garden Route District Municipality disaster management’s Gerhard Otto says collaboration is key to finding practical models that will address and mitigate climate change. He spoke at the Climate Change and Environmental Management Indaba in George in the Western Cape. Otto says the provincial government has developed a climate change response strategy and implementation plan based on a provincial vision of being a net-zero emissions and climate-resilient region by 2050:

# The City of Tshwane in collaboration with the Gauteng Department of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, is pioneering a unique initiative that seeks to deter further dumping while simultaneously promoting food security. There are well over 650 identified illegal dumping hotspots across the metro. The metro’s Sipho Stuurman says they plan to implement 13 vegetable gardens in the 2024/25 financial year if approval to utilise an identified hotspot is granted. He adds that illegal dumping remains an ongoing problem with a lot of negative impacts on the environment and health.

# And finally: St Vincent and the Grenadines’ prime minister, Ralph Gonsalves, has condemned a lack of political will in Western Europe and the US to tackle the global climate crisis. This follows as hurricane Beryl has made landfall on Carriacou Island in the south-eastern Caribbean. Gonsalves says more financial action is needed from major emitters of greenhouse gases. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has warned that the North Atlantic could get as many as seven major hurricanes this year, up from the average of three in a season.

Stay tuned for more news………….