Eco Minute 13:30

BULLETIN 10 July 1:30 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Eco Minute:

# Western Cape Local Government, Environmental Affairs and Development Planning MEC, Anton Bredell, says the Provincial Disaster Management Centre will remain on alert as inclement weather conditions are expected again from tomorrow. The South African Weather Service has issued a warning for very cold, wet and windy conditions across the Western Cape and Northern Cape. The department’s spokesperson, Rowena van Wyk, says daytime temperatures are expected to drop to 10-degrees Celsius and below with winds of up to 30-kilometre per hour:

# The City of Cape Town will spend an estimated 71.2-billion-rand on energy projects over the next three years. These include upgrading the Steenbras power plant, expanding solar photovoltaic capacity, and rolling out LED streetlights. Investments are also expected to target infrastructure upgrades in areas like Bellville and Gugulethu, and a battery storage facility at Atlantis. Mayoral committee member for Energy, Xanthea Limberg, says the metro is supporting grid resilience, embedded generation, battery storage, energy efficiency and metering infrastructure.

# And finally: A study has found that a severe European heatwave from June 23rd to July the second caused an estimated two-thousand-300 deaths across 12 cities. This is according to the study by Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Of these deaths, around two-thirds are attributed to global warming, 88-percent of whom were over the age of 65. Environmental epidemiologist, Pierre Masselot, told The Independent the world must stop burning fossil fuels:

Stay tuned for more news………….