A court victory by an NGO against a South African municipality has laid bare the red tape and misgovernance that often burdens the process of issuing water licenses.
- Acting Director of the Global Change Institute (GCI), University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
By identifying the roots of global ills such as climate change and biodiversity, there’s an opportunity for coordinated action as countries lay new pathways for a post-COVID world.
The science to policy process that was developed to guide climate mitigation decisions can be applied to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, without having to be reinvented.
It’s too soon for South Africa to start counting its chickens over the recent offshore gas find by global energy giant Total.
Staying below 1.5°C will require urgent, deep and radical changes in almost every aspect of our lives.
South Africa’s Karoo region potentially holds shale gas that could transform the energy economy of the country. But given the uncertainties around exploration what’s the next logical step?
South Africa has been considering shale gas development in the Karoo region. The gas, will be expensive to explore and extract, will be used as part of the country’s energy mix.
The ecological needs of the land need to be considered together with the social and political needs of its people.
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