SA Publishes Plan for Carbon Offsets
South Africa has published proposals for businesses to lower carbon-tax liability, which includes proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Public comments on the carbon offets paper must be...
View ArticleSA Irons Out Emission Rules In Planned Carbon Tax
With South Africa’s carbon tax set to take effect in 2016, a recent policy paper by the country’s National Treasury carves out a strong role for offsets – and pitches a plan to include standards first...
View ArticleSA to study need for climate change law
The election of South African parliamentarian Cedric Frolick as president of the Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE International) earlier this year is likely to turn the spotlight on his country’s...
View ArticleSchneider Electric SA awarded for anti-corruption programme
The Certification Committee of ETHIC Intelligence, a leading international certification agency specialising in anti-corruption compliance programmes, has awarded Schneider Electric South Africa and...
View ArticleComments sought on SA’s GHG inventory
Pretoria – Members of the public have until next Monday to comment on the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory for South Africa, for the period 2000 – 2010. The inventory was published for public comment...
View ArticleSA Preps Carbon Offset Program
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions will not be easy for South Africa. It has a large and intensive coal mining industry that it uses to meet growing energy demand and it also consumes the second-most...
View ArticleCarbon Tax Offset Proposal a Boon For Business
To date there has been a big outcry against South Africa’s proposed carbon tax because there is no ring fencing of the funds generated, effectively making the tax all stick and no carrot. All revenues...
View ArticlePlanners backpedal on road to sustainable energy system
THE ENORMOUS momentum of the fossil fuel industries, and thus within the global energy system, has many people convinced that ongoing growth in absolute terms is an inevitability, and that calls to...
View ArticleDangers lurk in carbon tax for business
NO ONE who has been following business news in recent months can have failed to notice that the local steel industry has huge challenges. So why is the government planning a new tax that has the...
View ArticleWorld’s renewable energy cities
The CDP formally the Carbon Disclosure Project reports that now over 100 cities now get at least 70% of their electricity from renewable sources such as hydro, geothermal, solar and wind. CDP, runs...
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