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23 May 2013
                       
 
 
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02 May 2013
 
 
National Treasury tables carbon tax policy paper for final comment
CARBON TAX
South African industry have until August 2 to comment on the carbon tax proposals tabled by the National Treasury on Thursday. The Treasury aimed to promulgate a phased-in tax rate of R120/t of...
 
 
18 Nov 2011
 
Conference adds impetus to creating green industries, jobs
Polity Focus
Nonprofit organisation the Sustainable Energy Society of Southern Africa (Sessa) has embraced the opportunity the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) will provide to add impetus to...
 
 
Uncertainty surrounds the COP 17 outcomes
Polity Focus
If the leading countries participating in the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) negotiations do not make a firm decision to have a second commitment period, following the first phase...
 
 
04 Nov 2011
 
 
 
Policy shows SA ready to take action on climate change
CLIMATE CHANGE
South Africa’s National Climate Change Response Policy, which was endorsed by Cabinet on October 12, represented “tangible” evidence that the country was serious about climate change, Water...
 
 
17 Feb 2011
 
News this week
UPDATE
South-South trade is growing fast; carbon regulation, and in particular taxation, must not disadvantage South Africa economically; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that, while he...
 
 
03 Feb 2011
 
IFC invests €150m in post-2012 carbon credits fund
CARBON FINANCE
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) on Thursday launched a €150-million fund to forward purchase certified emission reductions (CERs or carbon credits) that were expected to be produced...
 
 
03 Dec 2010
 
SA seeks to mainstream climate change response, but obligations remain fuzzy
CLIMATE POLICY
As the world settles into another yearly round of global climate change nego- tiations in Cancún, Mexico – without much hope for a legally binding deal emerging – South Africa has taken an...
 
 
23 Oct 2009
 
Climate policy by trade war?
HOT SPOT
Will climate policy in future be conducted through trade measures? A worrying scenario is that the current approach – negotiating climate change multilaterally, through the United Nations (UN)...
 
 
04 Sep 2009
 
SA wants technology diffusion to developing countries at centre of Copenhagen deal
CLIMATE CHANGE
Predictable financial flows, technology transfer and capacity building for developing countries are the imperatives sought by South African Department of Water and Environmental Affairs negotiators...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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