Source: Daily Maverick-Our Burning Planet Title: Climate change shifting the goalposts for global sport By Julia Evans (15 February 2020) The Beijing Winter Games have made history by being held on 100% artificial snow. The 2022 FIFA World Cup in Doha, Qatar has temperature-controlled stadium, even if temperatures reach 30 degrees and 40 degrees the [...]
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) [...]
Project 90 Director, Lorna Fuller speaks to the intersectionality's between climate justice and gender justice this women's day! Woman’s month 2021 presented me a challenge to write something personal AND hopeful. With the Climate Emergency is mostly on my mind, coupled to the fact that the women I was thinking about today are under extreme [...]
Gas investment and Powership Briefing There has been a lot of information circulated about the #Karpowerships , because of this, last month we put together a short briefing note to cover some of the Risk Mitigation IPP Procurement Programme (RMI4P) issues too, and better alternatives. This briefing note also covers the message about treating natural gas [...]
YouLead Warriors take on Playing With Solar! On April 24th, 2021 our YouLead Warriors began the journey that is, Playing With Solar. Our Youth began taking power into their own hands, solar power to be exact! The project consisted of many workshops guided by the amazing Engineers Without Borders UCT (EWB) team and our [...]
We would like to officially welcome to the #Project90 team Siyabulela Vavi ! He is our new Programme Assistant for our Community Partnership Programme. With him he brings a keen new eye and great experience, we cannot wait to see the amazing things to come! We are so happy to have you on board. Community Programme [...]
