President Cyril Ramaphosa assented to the long-awaited Carbon Tax Act 2019, which was gazetted on 23 May 2019. The same day, the President also assented to the Customs and Excise Amendment Act 2019, which amends the Customs and Excise Act of 1964,...
Environmental justice group groundWork, represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), has launched High Court proceedings against Environmental Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane and the President of South Africa to set aside...
The findings of a new study involving researchers from IIASA, Princeton and several other institutions looked into the question of how much the current generation should invest in reducing carbon emissions for the benefit of future generations....
New satellite data has revealed that the world’s largest air pollution hotspot is in Mpumalanga. An analysis of the satellite data by Greenpeace points to coal and transport as the two principle sources of air pollution with Mpumalanga, which is...
