The Political Party Manifesto Debate and The Manifesto Assessment In the lead-up to the 2024 elections, and in the aftermath of the Political Party Manifesto Debate held on the 8th of May at Community Hall, Project 90 by 2030 assessed the manifestos of nine political parties to help voters better understand what their future politicians [...]
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 [...]
Mobilising Support For Project 90 - We need to cover costs for 3 months to continue inspiring and mobilising society towards a sustainably developed and equitable low-carbon future. About The Project: Entering 2020, Project 90 by 2030 was celebrating a record number of 21 YouLead Initiative participants receiving their Bronze President’s Award and one young [...]
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 [...]
My Experiences at the Virtual Youth Summit Have you wondered what happens next when you have finally learned what you needed to get through a certain stage in life? I know I have. You see I have been a climate activist for about more than a year now and I have always wondered what would [...]
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 [...]
Dear partners and friends of Project 90 by 2030, The arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa, and the inevitable disruption to our lives and work, has encouraged us to rethink our work priorities, our ways of working and the role we play in halting the spread of the virus. We are also very [...]
Mismanagement, aging and problematic coal infrastructure along with a stalled renewable energy (RE) programme have fuelled regular power cuts since 2007. According to the new chief executive officer (CEO) Andre de Ruyter, Eskom has set itself a target of 18 months to end the outages and improve the maintenance programme. The Council for Scientific and [...]
South Africa is experiencing significant effects of climate change particularly as a result of increased temperatures and water variability. The observed rate of warming has been 2 °C per century or even higher – more than twice the global rate of temperature increase for the western parts and the northeast (DEA 2017a, 72). There is [...]
At Project 90, we work with many communities all around South Africa, and so we decided that it would be good to work in our own community too! We hosted an informative session for the local residents in Harfield Village, where our office is based. We discussed how the energy crisis is affecting our local communities and presented some of the practical solutions available.
