Eco Minute 13:30

BULLETIN 29 August 1:30 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Eco Minute:

# The Garden Route District Municipality in the Southern Cape has launched a first-of-its-kind platform to combat primarily invasive alien plants. The platform has set a bold interim vision to reduce invasive alien plants coverage across the Garden Route by 30-percent by 2030. This will support biodiversity conservation, water security, and wildfire risk reduction. Mayor Andrew Stroebel says invasive alien plants have re-emerged more aggressively, worsening the wildfire risk:

# Producer Responsibility Organisation Petco has partnered with Cape Flats icon DJ Ready D and the Great Cape Ambassador Project to launch a fun and educational recycling competition. Over the next three months, schools across Mitchells Plain will collect as many plastic bottles and jars, and Liquid Board Packaging as they can. The school that collects the most will win a 50-thousand-rand cash prize. DJ Ready D says this competition is about teaching people that recycling doesn’t have to be boring.

# And finally: Climate change could push at least 5.9-million more children and young people in Latin America and the Caribbean into poverty by 2030, unless governments act now. This number could reach 17.9-million if countries do not meet their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This is according to a report by the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the UN Children’s Fund. UNICEF says countries must also increase child-sensitive climate policy financing, with actions that specifically target the needs of children.

Stay tuned for more news………….