Eco Minute 13:30

BULLETIN 6 March 1:30 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Eco Minute:

# The City of Tshwane’s Emergency Services says it is continuing to monitor the weather conditions after the South African Weather Service issued a yellow level 2 warning for severe thunderstorms over most parts of Gauteng today. EMS’s spokesperson, Lindsay Mnguni, says the rainfall probability around Tshwane is 60-percent, with chances of rain expected to subside to 30-percent by tomorrow:

# Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are preparing for the impact of the most southerly cyclone to threaten the region in more than five decades. Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the coast just south of the Queensland capital of Brisbane in the early hours of tomorrow. Residents have stripped supermarket shelves of food and bottled water as authorities issued warnings about potential flooding. Beaches in New South Wales and Queensland were closed, with waves of more than five metres expected.

# And finally: The world’s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, China, is planning major renewable projects as it moves to bring its carbon dioxide emissions to a peak before 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060. The National Development and Reform Commission announced new offshore wind farms and new energy bases in desert areas. A controversial hydropower facility on the Yarlung Tsangpo River is also planned. Despite boosting renewables, China says it will continue increasing coal production. The country missed its 2023 carbon intensity reduction goal of 3.4-percent.

Stay tuned for more news………….