There’s a new way for South Africa’s defunct national power utility to raise funding: So-called ‘transition credits’, says Nick Hedley.

The world’s biggest vaccine maker will start rolling out a cheap new malaria inoculation in Africa from May, bolstering the fight against one of the most deadly infectious diseases globally.

South Africa’s draft Integrated Resource Plan is severely misaligned to the country’s pathways for decarbonisation, exacerbates poverty while making electricity inaccessible and unaffordable, and causes health, climate and socio-economic harm, write Sibusiso Mazomba, Gabriel Klaasen and Masego Mokgwetsi.

A heat-mapping study seeks to help residents of Laudium, Atteridgeville, Buffalo City, and Khayelitsha survive rising temperatures in a warmer world.

UK oil and gas giant Shell on Thursday watered down key targets on cutting carbon emissions, sparking anger from climate campaigners, but kept its pledge for net zero by 2050.

The CSIR has been appointed to assess the environmental impact of developing a new port and special economic zone near the Namibian border, to support a green hydrogen hub in the region.

Civil society groups have lodged an application to have a court review Minister Barabara Creecy’s decision to uphold the environmental authorisation of a proposed gas plant in Richards Bay.

The City of Cape Town has submitted to Minister Barabara Creecy a report with outcomes from a public participation process about marine outfall permits – that have allowed it to discharge sewage into the ocean.

A tiny loggerhead turtle was found stranded in Muizenberg and became the first of what could be as many as 100 hatchlings that will be looked after by the Turtle Conservation Centre in Cape Town this year.

SA can’t become lax in its conservation of the white shark, say researchers who have raised concerns over sightings that, according to a recent paper, declined from an average of several hundred white sharks to fewer than ten per year.

A team of engineers that successfully converted a traditional taxi to an electric one is now working on doing the same for a bus.

Latest figures from the National Energy Regulator of South Africa shows a total of 124 new power projects for private players were registered in the last three months of 2023 – and 25 new projects were added in January.

The DA has asked the high court to set aside the decision by Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa to authorise the procurement of 2 500 MW of nuclear energy.

Preparations are underway for a mouse-eradication project on a remote island halfway between South Africa and Antarctica, the biggest of its kind ever undertaken, to stop the rodents eating endangered seabirds.

Zero Carbon Charge wants to roll out 120 off-grid electric vehicle chargers powered by solar panels and vegetable oil-burning generators along National roads by September next year.

Elephants in the Knysna forest have declined – from about 500 recorded in the late 1800s, but SANParks is looking to introduce more after tracking a lone female elephant.

Four of the emergency procurement projects, which include Karpowership, failed to reach financial close, largely because the infrastructure for gas imports was not available, said IPP Office head Bernard Magoro.

SA’s Climate Change Bill doesn’t prescribe penalties if a company emits more than is authorised by its carbon budget

Southern African countries may need maize from SA, but the crops have suffered from too little rain in the past five weeks and the overall maize production estimate has declined significantly.

The launch of a billion-dollar transmission fund could solve challenges to distribute electricity across the southern African region.

South Africa should be allowed to develop uranium into nuclear fuel, as the country would use it for energy and not military purposes, says Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe.