At the recent International Conference on Freshwater Governance for Sustainable Development, Andrew Tanner, Specialist Consultant – Water Resources Management at Aurecon, spoke about how Integrated Water and Resource Management (IWRM) plans...
It is with deep sadness that Aurecon mourns the passing on of its Global Chairman Professor GJ (Jakes) Gerwel. Many titles can be attributed to Jakes – he was a renowned academic, liberation leader and champion for civil society. Likewise, his...
Laerskool Vredendal won first prize of R10 000 in the Collect-a-Can/Koelbly Northern Cape Can Collection Competition, for their 69 312 cans that they collected during the competition. Koelbly is the distributor of Coca-Cola’s products in the...
Pastics|SA, the mouthpiece of the South African plastics industry, has announced that it will be hosting the first industry conference of its kind on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 and as one of the highlights of Pro-Plas Conference that will be taking...
In West Cape News, Peter Luhanga reported on 27 November that violence erupted between the informal reclaimers resident at the Frankdale informal settlement and the security guards employed at Vissershok landfill. The settlement is adjacent to the...
ESI Africa reports that biogas digesters have been installed in the Upper Thukela area in KwaZulu-Natal as part of a natural resource management project to enhance the quality of life of people living there. Most of the residents of the area are...
General Motors South Africa (GMSA) set the target of zero waste to landfill by 2015. The company has announced that a dedicated full-time environmental team which is constantly investigating better ways of making the company a greener organisation....
The Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Ms Edna Molewa officially launched the National Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Report (NECER) 2011/12 on Thursday, 22 November in Cape Town. The report’s objective is to provide a national...
The World Bank has just released its report on climate change and it does not bode well for the future. It provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4°C warming...
