A climate deal agreed to by South Africa in secret negotiations with the US and three other countries would doom Africa to a “holocaust”, according a top African climate negotiator.
Chief negotiator for the G77 group of poorer nations Lumumba Di-Aping said the agreement was “a solution based on the same very values, in our opinion, [...]
The chief climate negotiator for the developing world has accused members of the South African delegation in Copenhagen of working to “disrupt the unity” of the G77 bloc, which represents poorer countries at the current climate talks.
Sudanese-born Lumumba Di-Aping was speaking at an ad hoc meeting, attended by about 100 representative of African civil society [...]
In an unprecedented show of editorial unity, more than 50 newspapers around the world, including in South Africa, are running the same urgent appeal to climate negotiators on the first day of the UN Conference on Climate Change taking place in Copenhagen.
The Mail and Guardian, Cape Argus and Business Day have joined publications in 45 [...]
A couple of months before the first sod was turned for the 2010 Green Point Stadium in early 2007, construction began on a similar project on the other side of the world.
Taiwan’s new 55,000-seater multipurpose venue was completed in 28 months and cost less than R1.5 billion.
Green Point, which will have a smaller capacity when [...]
The financial benefits of conserving and restoring the environment outweigh the costs by a ratio of between 25 and 100 to one, according to a major international report on the economic value of ecosystems and biodiversity.
The so-called TEEB report for policymakers, hosted by the UN and sponsored by the European Commission and individual European nations, [...]
The biggest-ever demonstration against climate change took place this weekend at thousands of sites around the world – from Table Mountain to the Himalayas, from the pyramids of Egypt to the Great Barrier Reef.
Millions of people took part in more than 5,000 events to demand that their leaders commit to reducing the amount of carbon [...]
Twenty hectares of industrial hemp will be planted in the Eastern Cape this summer in the first commercial trials since the government committed itself to establishing a local hemp industry more than 10 years ago.
The trials are part of the newly launched Hemp Project, a combined effort by government, business and community organisations to uplift [...]
Scientists from around the world have issued an urgent plea to governments to work towards restoring the earth’s natural systems
In a statement issued at the end of the Diversitas Biodiversity Conference in Cape Town last week, 600 experts warned that “the fabric out of which the Earth system is woven is unravelling at an accelerating [...]
Billions of people are at risk as a result of a “catastrophic loss” of freshwater species, according to scientists attending the Diversitas International Biodiversity Conference in Cape Town this week.
Professor Klement Tockner of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries in Berlin says there is “clear and growing scientific evidence that we are on [...]
The world is losing its vital natural systems faster than ever before with severe consequences for the health and livelihood of the human population, according to international biodiversity experts meeting in Cape Town this week for a landmark conference.
The conference, convened by the UN-supported science programme Diversitas, has attracted 600 experts to discuss science–based solutions [...]