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10 February 2012
Opinion
 
 
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20 Jan 2012
 
 
Will the planet be saved?
LOW-CARBON FUTURE
Fourteen days of deliberations at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seventeeth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) culminated in a diplomatic coup where, for the first time,...
 
 
08 Jul 2011
 
SA needs an independent system operator
Low Carbon Future
Previously, I noted some reservations about the idea of an independent system and market operator (ISMO).
 
 
10 Jun 2011
 
Do green jobs threaten other jobs?
Low Carbon Future
You have probably heard this before: green industries will steal jobs from other sectors. Superficial logic invites superficial conclusions. But here is an exploration that may help to deepen the...
 
 
13 May 2011
 
Japan’s nuclear crisis shows up the ‘unknown unknowns’
LOW CARBON FUTURE
After the Japanese nuclear accident following the tsunami there has been a lot of chatter by defenders of nuclear power that nuclear is still here to stay. That may be true. Nuclear technology...
 
 
15 Apr 2011
 
Fracking in the Karoo – who do we believe?
Low-Carbon Future
While Shell is attracting the most negative publicity owing to its application to the Petroleum Agency of South Africa for exploration rights in the Karoo, other companies have also submitted...
 
 
11 Feb 2011
 
Climate change Green Paper under the spotlight
LOW-CARBON FUTURE
The 38-page National Climate Change Green Paper was released just before most of South Africa’s negotiating team went to Cancun.
 
 
14 Jan 2011
 
From Cancun to Durban – what’s in store for the next 12 months?
LOW-CARBON FUTURE
When you land in Cancun, what strike you most starkly are concrete blocks upon concrete blocks that have taken occupation where lush mangroves once existed.
 
 
10 Dec 2010
 
The merits of a solar cluster
LOW CARBON FUTURE
The solar park idea raises the question of how South Africa should be positioning itself to take advantage of the country's abundant solar resources.
 
 
 
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