Floods leave Angolan returnees stranded
By Sarah | January 10, 2012
IRIN News, 6 January 2012
Several thousand Angolan returnees from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are stranded by floods in northeastern Angola. They are among the first casualties of what promises to be a very wet rainy season in parts of southern Africa. Read the rest of this entry »
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Climate Change: did Durban achieve breakthrough or postpone key decisions?
By Sarah | December 13, 2011
UNFCCC Press Release, 11 December 2011
Countries meeting in Durban, South Africa, have delivered a breakthrough on the future of the international community.s response to climate change, whilst recognizing the urgent need to raise their collective level of ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to keep the average global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius. Read the rest of this entry »
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Zuma calls for decisive climate action
By Mark | December 7, 2011
SAPA, Mail and Guardian, 6 December
The world needs to move away from analysing and studying climate change to identifying practical adaptation actions, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
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South Africa signs green energy loan
By Mark | November 14, 2011
Power utility Eskom signed a R1.9-billion loan from the World Bank on Monday that will finance the building of South Africa’s largest solar energy and wind power generation projects. Read the rest of this entry »
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Lesotho leapfrogs SA to harness wind and water
By Sarah | November 1, 2011
Mail & Guardian Online, 1 November 2011
The tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho is to harness the power of wind and water in a $15-billion green energy project, the biggest of its kind in Africa.
The Lesotho highlands power project (LHPP) will generate 6 000 megawatts (MW) of wind power and 4 000MW of hydropower, equivalent to about 5% of South Africa’s electricity needs. Read the rest of this entry »
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Climate Change Q&A: “We Expect the Polluters to Pay”
By Sarah | September 29, 2011
IPS News, 26 September 2011
An interview with Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu, chair of the Africa Group of Negotiators for Climate Change.
During the Nov. 28 to Dec. 9 17th U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban, South Africa, Tosi Mpanu-Mpanu will lead the negotiations on behalf of the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN).
Mpanu-Mpanu is also director of the Clean Development Mechanism Designated National Authority of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Read the rest of this entry »
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South Africa: In Need of a Unified Climate Change Policy
By Sarah | September 29, 2011
IPS News, 27 September 2011
The implementation of a unified climate change policy across all of South Africa’s government departments will not be easy as the divisions currently work largely as separate entities, says Greenpeace Africa.
The South African government announced on Sep. 13 that it would beef up its climate policy “to ensure that all government departments responded well to the issue of climate change.” Read the rest of this entry »
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SA Agriculture Minister says food security must be discussed at Climate Change Summit
By admin | September 8, 2011
Mail and Guardian, 8 September
The world will suffer dire consequences if food security was not placed on the agenda at November’s COP17 climate-change meeting in Durban, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Tina Joemat-Pettersson. Read the rest of this entry »
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UN raises alert on high flooding risks in parts of southern Africa
By Mark | February 8, 2011
Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) helps governments prepare as rising waters threaten food security
07 Feb 2011, FAO
Thousands of hectares of agricultural land and crops have been damaged by floods and heavy rains in parts of southern Africa, and more damage may occur in the coming weeks if above normal rains persist. Read the rest of this entry »
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Serious flooding imminent in Zambezi Valley
By Sarah | February 2, 2011
Mozambique News Agency (AIM), 1 February 2011, Maputo
Serious flooding in the Zambezi valley in central Mozambique now looks inevitable following the decision taken on Tuesday to increase the discharges from the Cahora Bassa dam to 6,400 cubic metres per second. Read the rest of this entry »
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