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Policy & Enforcement

SA moves to find consensus on how to tackle tyre-mountain scourge Restricted

It is common cause that South Africa requires a plan to deal with its growing ‘tyre mountain’ problem, which is growing at a rate of about 200 000 t a year, or one-million waste tyres each month.
By: Schalk Burger
24 Feb 12
 
 
BUDGET 2012

New carbon tax discussion document this year Restricted

A revised carbon tax policy paper will be published during the course of 2012, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan told lawmakers, in Cape Town, on Wednesday. The initial document was released at the tail-end of 2010 and the second document was...
By: Terence Creamer
22 Feb 12
 
 
BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT – 2

More education needed to help eradicate BEE fronting Restricted

The Department of Trade and Industry’s willingness to deal with troublesome issues regarding broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) is welcomed, but some proposals regarding the eradication of fronting practices require a more careful...
By: Dimakatso Motau
17 Feb 12
 
 
HERITAGE PRESERVATION

Construction team finds shipwreck at V&A Waterfront Restricted

Construction company WBHO has found a wooden shipwreck during excavation works for a new office block in the Clock Tower precinct of the V&A Waterfront, the South African Heritage Resources Agency (Sahra) said on Thursday. Workers last week...
By: Henry Lazenby
16 Feb 12
 
 
HERITAGE PROJECTS

Zuma unveils plans for new heritage projects Restricted

South Africa would proceed with, and undertake a number of new heritage projects this year, including new museums and centres in memory of South Africa’s Apartheid struggle, President Jacob Zuma announced this week. These include the 1980...
By: Henry Lazenby
10 Feb 12
 
 
CLIMATE CHANGE

Agriculture key to climate change mitigation and adaptation solutions Restricted

The world’s agriculture sector can contribute to climate change mitigation, while at the same time helping countries to adapt to climate change, say 14 scientists writing in the January 20 edition of the peer-reviewed journal Science. Members...
By: Schalk Burger
10 Feb 12
 
 
POWER CONFERENCE

Impact of Green Climate Fund to receive attention at power event Restricted

The launch of the Green Climate Fund at the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will have a significant impact on the generation sector, says events organiser African Utility...
 
 
Energy Measurement

COP 17 expo used yearly energy equivalent of 24 US households Restricted

The two-week Climate Change Response Expo, held in Durban during the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, used the same electricity as 24 US households do during one year,...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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