WHEN Medupi and Kusile were announced by our government in 2004 and 2007 respectively, the two coal-fired mega-projects were both seen as emblematic of South Africa's democratic progress — key to the ruling alliance and its plans for the fu...
Tag: Climate Change
South Africa’s Anti-Climate Science lobby
IF THE latest IPCC intergovernmental report on climate change, didn't draw your attention to the dire impacts of global warming at 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels then a new study of the Earth's oceans, showing the planet is much more sensitive to fossil-fuel emissions than past studies have s...
Edna Molewa’s SASOL greenwashing faux pas
IT IS NOT often that one gets to see blatant greenwashing non-science on SABC, 'the use of marketing to portray an organization's products, activities or policies as environmentally friendly when they are not'. The latest antics of the Dept of Environment's Edna Molewa is possibly a low-point in...
South Africa’s compliance with GHG reduction targets is currently rated as “highly insufficient”
SOUTH AFRICA’S compliance with GHG reduction targets is currently rated as “highly insufficient” by http://climateactiontracker.org/. Our national targets are ‘equivalent to a 20–82% increase on 1990 levels’, in other words, while the rest of the world is decreasing emissions, we have seen fit t...