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Young people in Bo City, Sierra Leone became youth climate leaders after turning a low-cost Climate Science Hub into a space for science-informed action.
When up to 3.5 million small businesses go green, this will benefit South Africa’s environment and help the businesses survive in a changing climate.
Solar energy can cut costs and pollution for South African households, but fear of theft holds people back. Shared mini-grids offer a safer, affordable alternative.
As ocean uses expand, it will be necessary to reduce disputes because they disrupt the environmental sustainability and equity central to a blue economy.
South Africa’s top appeal court has ordered the state-owned power utility Eskom to disclose its coal and diesel contracts, marking a major win for transparency and accountability.
Carbon removal strategies may conflict with biodiversity conservation, but careful choices could bring benefits.
Research suggests a shift to electric mobility is technically and economically feasible.
Eskom’s plans to cut power to 14 indebted municipalities expose a deepening crisis in South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider.
By 2100, rural African dwellers will be exposed to dangerous levels of heat nearly twice as high as those in urban areas.
In eastern DRC, a hydropower mini-grid shows how access to electricity happens through public-private partnerships and community programmes.
Carbon capture projects could provide the funds needed to restore land degraded by commercial farming and forestry.
Kenya faces extreme weather crises. Humanitarian aid must be part of the solution.
South Africa needs almost US$15 billion over a decade just to reach a basic level of climate adaptation, that protects water, food, health and infrastructure.
African countries face unfair trade rules, delayed decisions and weak support, leaving them exporting raw goods and losing out economically.
Africa holds key green energy minerals but exports them raw. If the continent had its own Green Bank, it could finance local manufacturing and green industry.
South Africa’s driest regions rely on groundwater, which dries up as the climate warms. Replenishing aquifers with excess rainfall may be a solution.
Environmentalists from all walks of life in South Africa are notching up an impressive set of wins against the state and big mining companies, research has found.
Cassava could thrive across more of Africa as the climate warms, but a deadly disease carried by whiteflies may spread faster, threatening the nutritious crop.
Gas from Mozambique is running out, leaving South African industry facing a supply crisis. Imported propane gas could offer a workable solution.
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Research Fellow, The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
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Director of the Global Environmental Law Centre; Associate Professor Department of Public Law & Jurisprudence, University of the Western Cape
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Chief Specialist Scientist (Public Health), South African Medical Research Council
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Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University
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Senior Researcher, Associate Professor: Economic Management Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in the Department of Public Law, University of Venda
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Professor in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher in Renewable Energy, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Climate Change, Food Systems and Health and Director of The Lancet Countdown in Africa, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Associate Professor in the Centre for Environmental Management, University of the Free State
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Director of African Climate and Development Initiative, Professor in Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
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Researcher, Centre for Global Change, Walter Sisulu University
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Research Scientist: Centre for Global Change, Walter Sisulu University
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Visiting Adjunct Professor, African Energy Leadership Centre, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Department of Geography, University of KwaZulu-Natal