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30 Nov 2011
 
 
SA: Pandor: Address by the Minister of Science and Technology, at a media briefing on COP17, Durban (30/11/2011)
2011
Let me begin by stating that, South Africa is embracing and implementingmulti-pronged and multi-stakeholder responses to our climate challenges. In this regard, science and technology is crucial to...
 
 
19 Oct 2011
 
Switch to green economy 'will be painful'
GREEN ECONOMY
South Africa's economy will need serious restructuring if the country is to successfully manage its carbon emissions, MPs heard on Wednesday. The switch to a greener economy was going to be...
 
 
18 Oct 2011
 
SA gives carbon-heavy sectors two years to set carbon budgets
CLIMATE CHANGE
South Africa has given its key carbon-emitting sectors, including energy and transport, two years, to October 2013, to finalise ‘carbon budgets’ that are calibrated to South Africa’s...
 
 
09 Sep 2011
 
Australia introduces carbon-pricing mechanism
CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR
In December 2010, National Treasury released a discussion paper on the introduction of a carbon-pricing mechanism in South Africa. The paper followed the announcement in 2009 that government is...
 
 
24 Jun 2011
 
Climate compatible development: Key messages from the Climate Change Symposium 2011
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
The first AfricaAdapt Climate Change Symposium was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in March 2011. At the symposium, researchers explored five main themes which included linking policy and practice,...
 
 
23 Feb 2011
 
Carbon tax design and schedule to be outlined in 2012 Budget
BUDGET 2011
The design features of a proposed carbon tax, as well as a schedule for its possible introduction, would be unveiled in the 2012 Budget, the National Treasury said in its 2011 Budget review....
 
 
18 Feb 2011
 
Energy-intensive firms team up to make carbon tax input
CARBON TAXES
Energy-intensive companies, including miners, operating in South Africa have established an ‘Industry Task Team on Climate Change’, or ITTCC, to prepare a formal response to the National...
 
 
16 Feb 2011
 
Consulting firm warns against unintended consequences of SA carbon tax
CARBON TAX
As South Africa grappled with the proposed introduction of a carbon tax, consultancy firm Africa International Advisors (AIA) has warned that carbon regulation, and in particular taxation, must not...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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