Microsoft has announced a commitment to achieve “carbon neutrality” for its energy use companywide during its upcoming fiscal year, beginning July 1.
The nebulous greenhouse gas (GHG) issue comes to the fore every now and then. Who doesn’t get uneasy about the effects of global warming and the impact it can have on our lives? Most people tend to dismiss the warnings, but luckily there are some who take it more seriously once they understand the extent of the threat.
The history of the South African English newspaper industry goes back hundreds of years as mining tycoons acquired newspapers through Johannesburg Consolidated Investments, a subsidiary of mining giant Anglo American.
Against a background of record greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, more frequent and intense extreme weather events, but also growing momentum for action to fight climate change, the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban (28 November to 9 December) kicked
off today.
'The cost of addressing climate change is manageable, but the cost of not doing so is unaffordable,' said Yvo de Boer, former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This was mentioned during a Carbon Literacy course conducted by Adam Green from Global Carbon Exchange (GCX), which I attended this week.
Livestock farming produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transport combined ' according to a recent UN report...
Cape Town is the first African city, and one of seven leading cities in the world, to officially endorse Meat-Free Day for the sake of animal welfare, human health and climate change. The idea is that Capetonians pick one day a week where they don't eat red meat, opting for more fruit, vegetables and grains instead. Former Beatle and well-known vegatarian Paul McCartney started the campaign.
If South Africa wants to adapt to climate change, it needs to move away from an immoral economic agenda towards value-based development. Otherwise it will be too late to find a solution to environmental degradation.
