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Kenya Airways Crew that Operated the Flight together with Hellen Mwariri, Chief  Strategy and innovation officer and Alderman James Vos- Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth, City of Cape Town. Photo: Supplied by Kenya Airways

Kenya Airways operates Africa’s first intra-African flight using 50% sustainable aviation fuel

The flight showcased several sustainability initiatives, including upcycled blanket bags, headset covers and reusable cutlery to cut down on waste

The first two months of the Israel-Gaza war exceeded the individual annual carbon footprints of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations.
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Genocide is a human rights and climate justice issue

The first two months of the Israel-Gaza war exceeded the individual annual carbon footprints of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations.

About 20% of global water waste and 10% of global carbon emissions are produced by the fashion industry, according to United Nations Environment Programme estimates

Upcycle for a greener fashion industry – but beware intellectual property infringement

Upcyclers must ensure that their activities comply with IP laws to avoid legal challenges from trade mark owners who may claim infringement of their brand

Companies must focus on reducing their carbon footprint and run their data centres on renewable energy. (Photo by Tom Lee/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images)

Artificial intelligence costs the Earth

Companies must focus on reducing their carbon footprint and run their data centres on renewable energy

(The Times/Esa Alexander)

Dismantle green colonialism and stop the greed of corporates and Northern governments

The fight for climate justice must include the people who are most affected, including those in the Arab region

Uwen Garae surveys his destroyed house on March 16, 2015 in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Cyclone Pam hit the South Pacific islands with hurricane-force winds, huge ocean swells and flash flooding. (Photo by Dave Hunt-Pool/Getty Images)

Commonwealth urges immediate action to support vulnerable island nations

A cyclone, or a hurricane, can knock a small or at-risk country off its growth trajectory for years, if not decades

TotalEnergies, the French petro giant company with a legacy of destruction on the continent, this year celebrates 100 years. (Ernest Ankomah/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

TotalEnergies African legacy: 100 years of environmental destruction

Climate justice groups are leading the fight against those causing harm to our environment and climate

Mpumalanga carbon capture pilot project completed

The initiative aims to capture air pollution and store it in the ground

HEINEKEN steps up sustainability drive, moving to 65% returnable glass for beer portfolio in 2024

Along with the Star Bottle, the company will be opening Green Zones across the country

Common goal: The first Africa climate summit held in Nairobi, Kenya, was hosted by President William Ruto who said ‘climate action is not a global north issue or a global south issue but rather a collective challenge, and it affects all of us’. Photo: Andrew Kasuku/Getty Images

Carbon credits a controversial topic at Africa climate summit

The carbon market: a potential planet saver or greenwashing that gives polluting companies an opportunity to evade reducing their emissions?

Blazing: A wildfire that broke out in a woodland spread further in the Kinik district of Izmir, Türkiye, on 26 July. The Mediterranean area has been hit by heatwaves that fuel runaway fires. Photo: Mehmet Emin Menguarslan/Getty Images

Heatwaves, ocean crisis: Climate change is here

If you still think climate change is a problem for the future, you had better think again

Tank pipework onboard the Karmol LNGT Powership Asia floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), operated by Karpowership, viewed from the ship’s bridge whilst docked at Cape Town port in Cape Town, South Africa. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Energy Indaba: Use gas to wean Africa off fossil fuels

Conference sees delegates setting the continent’s agenda for COP28

Peddling an idea: Bulawayo’s municipality is encouraging residents to use bicycles instead of motor vehicles in order to cut emissions in the city. Photo: Zinyange Auntony/AFP

Get on your bike, Bulawayo residents urged

Plan to get inhabitants of Zimbabwe’s second city to cycle to reduce pollution faces hurdles, including that two-wheelers are spurned by the upwardly mobile

Displaced blame: John Kerry Called on Africa to reduce emissions, even though the US and China re the biggest polluters. Photo: Bloomberg

Africa is the recipient of collateral damage in the politics of climate change wrangling

The EU, US and China wield the most carbon emissions, yet Africa is left paying the price, again. The continent needs to build its own resilience to combat a declining economy.

With two units at Koeberg nuclear power station likely to be out of commission at the same time, Eskom will struggle to keep the lights on, said Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.

Debt-ridden Eskom faced with ‘complex issues’ in its just transition to clean energy

Shutting down Eskom’s coal plants and shifting to cleaner technologies will bring ‘cleaner air’ to the polluted Mpumalanga Highveld, says the utility’s environmental manager

A thing of the past? The first vehicle of its kind in the country will arrive by the end of this year and it will be rigorously tested under local conditions.

Quantum leap: Electric minibus taxis could soon be a SA reality

The first vehicle of its kind in the country will arrive by the end of this year and it will be rigorously tested under local conditions

How sugar, tobacco or waste gases could power your next flight

South Africa has the immediate technical potential to produce 3.2 billion litres of alternative aviation fuels annually

The tax puts a price on releasing greenhouse gases from fuel combustion and industrial processes. (Samantha Reinders)

South Africa forges ahead with domestic carbon offset programme

Industries can take advantage of carbon tax allowances if they finance projects mitigation projects

TOPSHOT – Nono, an elderly maize farmer, inspects maize which has been hung out to dry in Qunu on June 28, 2013. Qunu is where former South African President Nelson Mandela grew up. Mandela, who turns 95 next month, was rushed to hospital three weeks ago with a recurrent lung disease. AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza […]

Study: Bill Gates promoted fertilisers are more damaging than previously thought

No to ‘climate-stupid’ agriculture

Hundreds of climate activists from groups including Extinction Rebellion and Insulate Britain march from the Royal Courts of Justice to Lambeth Bridge in solidarity with the nine Insulate Britain campaigners jailed three days previously by a High Court judge on 20th November 2021 in London, United Kingdom. The activists, who claim that the jailed activists are political prisoners, later blocked Lambeth Bridge for around 5 hours in breach of an injunction and Vauxhall Cross for around 3 hours. The Metropolitan Police made over 100 arrests. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

After COP26, business leaders are warming up to sustainable practices

Chief executives have begun to recognise the importance of sustainability, but we urgently need climate science-aligned policies that provide a new framework for business