Eco Minute 13:30

BULLETIN 1 March 1:30 pm

Good afternoon, here is your Eco Minute:

# South Africa’s largest private renewable energy project, the Impofu wind farms, is poised for construction in Kouga in the Eastern Cape, starting this month. The project, led by Red Cap Energy, will feature three 110-megawatt wind farms, making it the largest pure private renewable energy plant in the country. The project is expected to bring significant economic growth and sustainability to local communities.

# The Cape Winelands District Municipality in the Western Cape says firefighters have managed to contain two of the three active fire lines in the Du Toits Kloof fire. The blaze started on Wednesday afternoon and quickly spread. The municipality’s spokesperson, Anesca Roodt, says firefighters made great progress throughout the night as a result of cooler temperatures:

# And finally: Increased warming in the Arctic will be responsible for breaching the Paris Agreement’s two-degrees Celsius threshold eight years earlier, than if the area was warming at the average global rate. This is according to a study on future climate change forecasts done by researchers from the University College London. The Arctic sea levels are rising and now account for 35-percent of the global increase in ocean levels. The university’s, Alistair Duffey, says the extra warming in the Arctic is directly linked to extreme weather in the northern hemisphere of the Earth.

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