Every day, millions of engines and factories burn fossil fuels, releasing carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas that traps heat in ...

South Africa is working on how best to integrate labour and environmental justice and how its labour laws can be used to enable a just energy transition.

Extreme weather events such as flooding, drought, wildfires, water scarcity and rise in sea levels driven by climate change ...

South Africa's Climate Change Act was signed into law in July last year, but the SSN analysis found multinational firms and different layers of government had all made varied levels of progress.

The legal landscape is also evolving, with potential for increased litigation arising from climate change commitments ... Law.com notes that South Africa’s long-beleaguered electric utility ...

According to the International Panel on Climate Change as well as the Global Change Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, temperatures in southern Africa could hit 5-6 ...

On Friday, 26 July, the 46th Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee announced World Heritage status for three new sites in South Africa ... challenges of climate change and rising sea ...

While it may be some time before the broader impact of those moves will be clear, Cobus Van Staden, a China-Africa expert with the South ... the Paris Climate Agreement. “Climate change is ...