"We Are Living As If We Had One and a Half Planets"
Inter Press Service | 14 May 2012
The new WWF Living Planet Report warns of a significant decline in biodiversity, particularly in low-income countries, and a huge increase in the ecological footprint of high-income countries.
 Kenya | South Africa | Economics and the Environment | Energy | Environmental Awareness

Governments Can't Do It Alone
ips.org | 05 May 2012
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 5 (IPS) – African countries need more support from the private sector in order to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015, which include important development targets like poverty reduction, and improved health and education.Governments cannot...
 South Africa | Health and Environment | Poverty Reduction

GLOBAL: Interview with Nobel prize winner Elinor Ostrom on climate change
IRIN News | 25 Apr 2012
JOHANNESBURG 25 April 2012 (IRIN) - The governance of natural resources like land, the oceans, rivers and the atmosphere, can affect the impact of some of the world's biggest crises caused by natural events like droughts and floods. How best to manage those resources has been at the heart of the work by Nobel Prize winner (economics) Elinor Ostrom.
 South Africa | Climate Change Impacts | Environmental Awareness

South Africa wants its early warning system on flooding to work in rural areas
ips.org | 13 Mar 2012
Rain in Johannesburg. Credit: Tinus de Jager/IPS The Department of Water Affairs in South Africa wants its early warning system on flooding to work in rural areas and says education is the way to go. Zukiswa Zimela reports.
 South Africa | Floods

SOUTH AFRICA: Rural School Running on Methane Bio-Gas
ips.org | 01 Mar 2012
By Lee MiddletonZothe, the school caretaker at Three Crowns Rural School in Lady Frere District oversees the feeding of the bio-digester. / David Oldfield/IPS CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Mar 1 (IPS) – Tucked against the rolling hills of South Africas Eastern Cape province, a small rural...
 South Africa | Cleaner Technologies | Energy | Recycling

World: Analysis: Agriculture in a changing environment
feedproxy.google.com | 24 Jan 2012
Source:  Integrated Regional Information Networks Country:  World JOHANNESBURG, 24 January 2012 (IRIN) - Agriculture has been seen both as a cause and victim of global warming at the UN climate change talks over the past...
 South Africa | Agriculture | Climate Change Adaptation | Climate Change Impacts

Préserver la biodiversité 'protège les terres arides'
SCIDEV.NET | 16 Jan 2012
D'après certains scientifiques, la biodiversité joue un rôle clé dans le bon fonctionnement de l'écosystème des terres arides et détermine ainsi sa réaction aux changements climatiques.
 South Africa | Biodiversity | Climate Change Adaptation | Conservation

CLIMATE CHANGE: City Apartheid Built Turns Green
ips.org | 14 Dec 2011
By Lee MiddletonSouth Africa's first eco-friendly and energy efficient low-income housing development in Atlantis. / Lee Middleton/IPS ATLANTIS, South Africa, Dec 14 (IPS) – Something unusual is happening in Atlantis. Created in the 1970s to fulfill the apartheid government's agenda to...
 South Africa | Climate Change Adaptation | Economics and the Environment

We cannot fight climate change while at the same time condeming Africa to poverty
African Development Bank | 12 Dec 2011
Nous ne pouvons pas combattre le changement climatique en condamnant lAfrique à la pauvreté , a déclaré le président de la Banque africaine de développement, Donald Kaberuka, présent à la Conférence des Nations unies sur le changement climatique, qui se clôt aujourdhui à Durban, en Afrique du...
 South Africa | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol

Sweden, UK and Germany Top Climate Protectors
ips.org | 06 Dec 2011
By Kristin PalitzaElectric cars reduce urban air pollution. / Zukiswa Zimela/IPS DURBAN, South Africa, Dec 6 (IPS) – Sweden, the United Kingdom and Germany are the top countries to fight climate change, according to the 2012 Climate Change Performance Index, whose results were published at...
 South Africa | Climate Change Convention and Kyoto Protocol