global warming | Infrastructure news - Part 3

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OBP complete energy management project

Onderstepoort Biological Products SOC Ltd (OBP) have recently completed an energy management project that will not only save the facility 92,7MWh of annual energy costs but will contribute to a reduction of 81,6t of CO2 emissions annually to...
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Joburg’s sustainable transformation

From creating jobs and encouraging active citizenry to reducing waste to the city’s strained landfill sites and converting waste to energy, Pikitup has a significant role to play in helping Johannesburg meet its 2040 Growth and Development Strategy...
consumerism fuels climate change

Consumerism fuels climate change

By Jeffrey Gogo In Africa one cannot claim that people have enough food to eat because there is not enough food to go around. About 75% of a billion Africans are hungry and living on less than US$2 per day. Several millions more are facing hunger...

Is progress on climate change an illusion?

David Hodgkinson, a lawyer, leads an international project team which is drafting a treaty to address the problem of climate change displacement. He is the co-author of Global Climate Change: Australian Law and Policy. His anaylsis, seen below, was...