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The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) has approved the Climate Change Bill. “The Climate Change Bill will provide the much-needed legal framework to regulate activities that contribute to climate change; ensure an effective response in all spheres of government and by society at large; ensure a just transition; and maximise the opportunities afforded to our economy by the global shift to a green economy,” says Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy.

Eight major international and national nuclear industry associations have urged the Group of Seven (G7) major democratic industrial economies to take steps to further develop nuclear energy capacity and technology, to help counter climate change. They also welcomed the opportunity to provide input to the G7 Climate, Energy, and Environment Ministers meeting, currently under way in Turin, Italy. (The G7 countries are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US, while the European ...

The Grower Development Company of the Citrus Growers’ Association of Southern Africa (CGA) has partnered with the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) to bolster commercialisation prospects for black farmers producing citrus in the province. The 18-month agreement signed between the parties will support the commercialisation activities of ten black farmers out of 37 known producers in the Eastern cape, as well as break down the barriers to entry to the export market.

African leaders seek record World Bank financing to combat climate change

Published: 29 Apr 24

African leaders on Monday called for rich countries to commit record contributions to a low-interest World Bank facility for developing nations that they rely on to help fund their development and combat climate change. Donors will make their cash pledges to the International Development Association, a World Bank institution that offers loans with low interest rates and long tenures, at a conference to be held in Japan in December. "We call on our partners to meet us at this historic moment of solidarity and respond effectively by increasing their IDA contributions... to at least $120-billion," Kenya's President William Ruto told a meeting of African leaders and the World Bank to discuss IDA funding. African economies were facing a "deepening development and debt crisis that threatens our economic stability, and urgent climate emergencies that demand immediate and collective action for our planet's survival," Ruto said. He cited Kenya's own devastating floods and a severe drought affecting Southern African nations such as Malawi. If the donors pledge the minimum amount suggested by African leaders, it will be a new high after the last round of fundraising in 2021, which raked in $93-billion.

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