# Banke het in 2024, die warmste jaar ooit wat aangeteken is, sowat 15,9-duisend-miljard-rand se fossielbrandstowwe gefinansier. Dit is ‘n skerp styging van die vorige jaar. Volgens die Banking on Climate Chaos-verslag wat die wêreld se top 65 banke dek, het fossielbrandstof-finansiering sedert 2016 se Paryse Ooreenkoms 126-duisend-miljard-rand gehaal. JP Morgan Chase is die wêreld […]
# Today is International Picnic Day, a chance to pack a picnic basket and eat out in the open air with friends or family. Although there are no records about the exact origin of this day, it is believed to date back to the end of the French Revolution and the Victorian Era. According to […]
# ʼn Mylpaalsaak om olifante uit die Johannesburgse Dieretuin te bevry, het internasionale ondersteuning gekry. Die saak is gegrond op die veronderstelling dat die diere se aanhouding die Grondwet oortree, in besonder wat omgewingsregte betref. Regslui aan die Harvard-regsfakulteit in Amerika het as vriende van die hof by die saak aangesluit. Hulle stem saam dat die […]
# Banks have financed up to 15.9-trillion-rand in fossil fuels in 2024, the hottest year on record, marking a sharp rise from 2023. According to the Banking on Climate Chaos report, which covers the world’s top 65 banks, since the 2016 Paris Agreement, fossil fuel financing has reached 126-trillion-rand. JP Morgan Chase is the largest fossil […]
# Eskom se uitvoerende hoof, Dan Marokane, sê hulle wil skoner opwekking by die steenkoolmengsel integreer en sy algehele vrystelling met 40-persent verminder. Die kragverskaffer het tans by ses steenkoolkragstasies projekte van vyf gigawatt aan die gang wat in verskillende ontwikkelingstadiums is. Dit sluit die Komati-kragstasie in Mpumalanga in waar 122-megawatt fotovoltaïese sonkrag en 150-megawatt […]
# Die Verenigde Nasies se Kinderfonds sê klimaatsverandering is nie meer ‘n vae bedreiging vir kinders in Nepal en die Maledives in die toekoms nie, maar dis ‘n werklikheid. Grondstortings wat bergdorpies verswelg, huise en plase wat wegspoel, en stygende seevlakke wat oor eilandkuslyne stroom en dreig om hele gemeenskappe in te sluk is ‘n […]
# A landmark case to free elephants from Johannesburg Zoo has gained international support. At the heart of the case is the claim that keeping elephants in the zoo violates the Constitution, particularly the environmental rights provision. Legal scholars from Harvard Law School in the US have joined the case as friends of the court. They […]
# Eskom CEO Dan Marokane says they are seeking to integrate cleaner generation into its coal-heavy mix and reduce its overall emissions by 40-percent. The power utility currently has a five-gigawatt pipeline of projects at various stages of development on the sites of six coal power stations. This includes the Komati Power Station in Mpumalanga, […]
# The United Nations Children’s Fund says climate change is no longer a distant threat for children in Nepal and the Maldives, but it’s a daily reality. This is from landslides tearing through mountain villages, washing away homes and farms, and rising seas surging over island shorelines, threatening to swallow entire communities. UNICEF representative in […]
