# Plastics recycling organisation, Polyco and the Western Cape Government are expanding their school recycling programme to 13 more schools this year. Each school will get over 380-thousand-rand to set up recycling centres, teach learners about recycling, and create jobs for local community members. Polyco’s Chantal Philander says the programme also helps schools earn money […]
# Residents of Gordon’s Bay in Cape Town woke up this morning to the unexpected site of an elephant seal wandering the streets, nearly a kilometre from the shoreline. Videos and photos online showed the visibly fatigued seal moving slowly along tarred roads, even propping its upper body on a parked vehicle. Officials from the […]
# Die Afrika-klimaatsveranderingfonds deur die Afrika-ontwikkelingsbank help Ugandese vroue met geslagsgelykheid en klimaatsverandering. By ʼn woudherstelterrein in Kotido leer vroue om bome te plant, toegang tot grond te kry en waterbewaring. Gemeenskapsleiers, die burgerlike samelewing en plaaslike amptenare is ook betrokke. Die projek bemagtig vroue as omgewingsleiers, met tasbare resultate soos boomkwekerye en plaaslike klimaatsaksie. […]
# The Africa Climate Change Fund, through the African Development Bank, is helping Ugandan women combat climate change and gender inequality. In Kotido, a pilot site for reforestation, women are being trained in tree planting, land access, and water conservation. Community leaders, civil society, and local officials are also involved. The project empowers women as […]
# Die minister van Wetenskap, Tegnologie en Innovering, Blade Nzimande, sê Suid-Afrika se binnelandse en kusgemeenskappe moet meer bewus raak van die land se oseaan-erfenis. Hy het die hoofrede gelewer op ʼn slypskool met die titel, Verbind binnelandse gemeenskappe met die oseaan, in Mbombela, Mpumalanga. Dis deel van Suid-Afrika se groter #Ocean20-pogings onder sy G20-presidentskap […]
# Die aktivisme-organisasie sonder winsbejag, Just Share, se nuwe verslag beskuldig Suid-Afrika se grootste besoedelaars dat hulle die regering se klimaatbeleidreaksie met 20 jaar vertraag. Die vertragings het die doeltreffendheid van die land se Wet op Koolstofbelasting en die Wet op Klimaatsverandering benadeel. Die verslag noem Sasol Limited, Business Unity South Africa en die Suid-Afrikaanse […]
# Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Blade Nzimande, says South Africa’s inland and coastal communities must be more aware of the country’s ocean heritage. He delivered the keynote address at a workshop titled Connecting Inland Communities to the Ocean, in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, on Monday. This forms part of South Africa’s broader #Ocean20 efforts under […]
# Non-profit activism organisation Just Share’s new report accuses South Africa’s biggest polluters of stalling effective climate policy response by the government for 20 years. The delays have substantially compromised the effectiveness of the country’s Carbon Tax Act and the Climate Change Act. The report names Sasol Limited and industry associations, Business Unity South Africa and […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Parke vra besoekers om die wenke vir veiligheid na te kom om te verseker dat hulle ‘n aangename ervaring indie Tafelberg Nasionale Park in Kaapstad het. SANParke se woordvoerder, JP Louw, sê hierdie naweek het hulle in twee afsonderlike voorvalle jong vroue gehelp wat snags op Seinheuwel en Leeukop gestrand was. […]
