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Unlike many businesses compelled to cut emissions or pay carbon taxes in response to the climate crisis, the aviation sector (and global shipping industry) has largely managed to wriggle out of legally binding control measures. Unlike many businesses compelled to cut emissions or pay carbon tax...
In a webinar on Thursday, City of Cape Town officials, climate scientists, adaptation specialists and others with direct experience in managing disaster responses to flooding looked at Cape Town’s projections for high rainfall, the expected impacts on residents, infrastructure and service d...
A new report released by Meridian Economics has found the power cuts could have been avoided if the grid had an additional 5,000MW or 5GW of generation capacity.
What does it take to bring a community together to address a chronic problem that, for all its efforts, the government cannot fix without help? In some South African communities it is crime, in others it is crumbling infrastructure. Right now in Simon’s Town, on the Cape Peninsula, it is babo...
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