South African youth to lead intergenerational global climate action on 25th March, calling for “people not profit” in the wake of Human Rights Day, as the domestic environmental justice movement picks up greater momentum. On 25th March 2022, South African youth and civil society will once again take [...]
MEDIA RELEASE: 16 February 2022 Communities Mobilise for National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) to be Transparent Following illegal Suspension of Civil Society Board Representative Peter Becker Following the illegal suspension of the civil society representative on the National Nuclear Regulator (NNR) Mr. Peter Becker by Department of Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe, communities and civil society organisations [...]
On Monday, 17 January 2022, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) held online public hearings for comment on ESKOM’s Annual application for an electricity tariff increase. The application for the 20.5% increase is one that is extremely worrying and controversial, as it would disproportionately affect Low-Income Households and Individuals. This massive increase would [...]
South Africa has a legacy of coal reliance that if continued will only lead to more destruction and devastation. The reality is that there is no future in coal, despite what our leaders would have us believe. We need to stop this new procurement of coal-fired power and move through a Just Energy Transition toward [...]
On 23 October 2021, African Climate Alliance in collaboration with Project 90 by 2030, hosted an open space dialogue, to bring young people between the ages of 14 and 35 to discuss the important question: what does climate justice look like in South Africa ahead of COP26? A total of 20 participants (excluding facilitators) gathered [...]
MEDIA RELEASE: 07 October 2021 Young Climate Activists from Khayelitsha embark on ‘Playing With Solar’ programme following their Climate Action outside Parliament (Cape Town) last week and the Build Up to COP26. On Saturday, 9 October 2021, young climate activists from Khayelitsha, hot off the heels from the 24th September 2021 Parliament (Cape Town) [...]
TACKLING ENERGY POVERTY AND IMPROVING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE WESTERN CAPE South Africa needs to invest time and resources to move towards a just energy transition (JET). In Project 90’s latest research report we investigated what a JET means for the Western Cape. The province has shown political will to shift to low carbon energy [...]
The history of police and military brutality in South Africa, especially the death of Collins Khosa and others more recently; as well as the recent Black Lives Matter protests in The United States of America -we should be reminded of the unnecessary and unconstitutional brutality that black people face all the time. It does not [...]
Covid19 and The Connectivity Divide In the current climate that we find ourselves in, we see just how vulnerable our system truly is. The nationwide lockdown - set by President Cyril Ramaphosa in an attempt to flatten the curve of those affected and infected by the COVID-19 pandemic - has left us to learn to [...]
Air Quality is no joke and demands a long term solution The day after the national lockdown commenced, a one-line poetic injustice appeared in the Government Gazette. It took the form of an amendment to the Air Quality Act that doubled the upcoming emissions limit for sulphur dioxide (SO2): one of the pollutants that is [...]
