Johannesburg, South Africa, March 6, 2019/ — A group of Greenpeace Africa volunteers in Cape Town has started an ambitious campaign calling on South Africa’s top political parties to adopt a ban on single-use plastics in their election manifestos ahead of this year’s presidential election.
March 2, 2019//- An idea, called HOCO which seeks to boost sustainable development in rural areas by producing construction materials out of coconut waste, has won the first ever Africa Basque Challenge (ABC) in Spain.
February 21, 2019//-Urban rivers choked with plastic, exhaust fumes hazing up the sunset over traffic jams, industrial chimney stacks belching smoke, or decrepit old housing leaking heat into the sky.
Accra, Ghana, February 18, 2019//-The Odaw River in Accra, Ghana which overflowed partly caused the June 3, 2015 disaster, is choked again without any effort by the authorities to dredge it.
February 15, 2019//-Spiders are something most people are not crazy about, and they certainly do not want them in their home. This is especially true if you live in an area with more dangerous spiders, such as the black widow spider or brown recluse spider.
February 11, 2019//-The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the automotive sector in Morocco through a €7.5 million loan to Tuyauto Gestamp Morocco, a greenfield joint venture producer of metal automotive parts 50 per cent owned by Gestamp Automocion (Spain) and 50 per cent by Tuyauto.
January 24, 2019//-From Friday 15th to Sunday 17th February, David Manoa – Head of Conversation Programmes for Born Free Kenya – will take a new approach to helping wildlife conversation by taking part in Kenya’s 10to4cycling event for the time over a decade.
January 12, 2019//-In Katowice, the dismissal of science as an afterthought was a chilling reminder that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1.5oCReport is insufficient to disengage with ‘politics as usual’.
December 29, 2018//-The Paris Climate Agreement, signed at COP21, is a global safeguard for human health.
December 28, 2018//-The severity of the impact of climate change on health is increasingly clear. Climate change is the greatest challenge of the 21st century, threatening all aspects of the society in which we live, and the continuing delay in addressing the scale of the challenge increases the risks to human lives and health.
