The Great Green Wall initiative is a pan-African proposal to “green” the continent from west to east in order to battle desertification.  It aims at tackling poverty and the degradation of soils in the Sahel-Saharan region, focusing on a strip of land of 15 km (9 mi) wide and 7,100 km (4,400 mi)...

With just days to go before the South African delegate jets off to South East Asia, 25 year old Tamerin Jardine is ready to share her passion, views and environmental activism with the world. At a press conference hosted at the Tsogo Sun, Sandton Sun earlier this week, this young lawyer, environm...

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The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has today released its new study titled, “How much glyphosate is on your dinner plate? SA's food safety compromised by lack of testing This study highlights numerous risks posed by the herbicide glyphosate to human and animal health as well as worrying regul...

THE Kyoto Protocol was adopted in Kyoto, Japan, on 11 December 1997 and entered into force on 16 February 2005. The detailed rules for the implementation of the Protocol were adopted at COP 7 in Marrakesh in 2001, and are called the “Marrakesh Accords.” The Kyoto mechanisms Under the Treaty, coun...

THAT South Africa's energy policy suffers from incoherence can be seen in the 2010 Integrated Resource Plan for Electricity published by the Department of Energy. The prevailing attitude fostered by so many self-proclaimed experts and advisers to the ministry, is that renewables should comprise...