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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...

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SA 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...

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SA 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...

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Schneider 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...

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Comments 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...

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SA 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...

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Carbon 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...

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Planners 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...

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Dangers 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...

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World’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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