Compared with traditional impact investment vehicles, which tend to be private equity, green bonds provide a “nice balance” in achieving a desired investment impact, environment, social and governance (ESG) advisory firm EBS Advisory CEO James Brice said during the Southern Africa Green Bonds. https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/green-bonds-provide-balance-to-traditional-investment-vehicles-2021-09-27

South Africa’s cabinet adopted the lower greenhouse gas emission target recommended by a panel set up by President Cyril Ramaphosa. The target, known as the country’s nationally determined contribution, is to keep annual emissions at between 371 and 420 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalent by https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/south-africa-adopts-lower-emission-target-ahead-of-cop26-meeting-2021-09-20

A new web-based platform, which will showcase green stimulus projects across Africa, has been officially launched. The portal, which can be found at http://agsp.nepad.org/, was unveiled this week by South Africa’s Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Barbara Creecy in her capacity as https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/new-online-portal-launched-to-showcase-african-green-recovery-projects-2021-09-17

South Africa’s FirstRand will end funding for new coal-fired power stations and coal mines and has lowered the cap on its coal exposure as part of moves to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, it said on Wednesday.https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/firstrand-to-end-funding-for-new-coal-mines-power-plants-2021-09-15

A just transition towards net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 offers significant opportunities for a new growth path built on green industrialisation and could provide the anchor for a new “shared vision that binds us”, former Deputy Finance Minister and State Capture whistle-blower Mcebisi Jonas

South Africa has three favourable structural characteristics that potentially give it a “first mover advantage” to become a global green-hydrogen leader, Sasol CEO Fleetwood Grobler argued in his address during a ‘Hydrogen Economy Discussion’ facilitated by well-known mining personality Bernard https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/south-africas-green-hydrogen-first-mover-opportunity-based-on-three-structural-advantages-2021-09-08

Energy and chemicals group Sasol, which aims to become a leader in South Africa’s promising green hydrogen industry, reports that research advancements have been achieved that are supportive of the conversion of hydrogen and carbon dioxide (CO2) into green jet fuel and chemicals. https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/sasol-uct-confirm-progress-on-catalysts-that-convert-hydrogen-co2-into-green-jet-fuel-2021-09-06

Environment advocacy organisations Greenpeace Africa, groundWork and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have expressed deep concerns that the South African government did not participate in a Ministerial meeting on a proposed global plastics treaty held this month.https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/environmental-organisations-concerned-about-government-no-show-at-plastics-treaty-meeting-2021-09-02

Agricultural sustainability company Trace & Save has reaffirmed in a case study that a lower environmental impact is directly linked with higher profitability in the South African dairy farming industry. The company, in partnership with Nedbank and the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa.https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/study-confirms-low-enviro-impact-dairy-farming-equals-higher-profitability-2021-09-01

Heavy rain over the weekend has caused dunes at a decommissioned landfill site to shift, spilling litter onto the beach at Witsand in Cape Town. City of Cape Town Mayco Member for Water and Waste Xanthea Limberg said the recent heavy rainfall caused the mobile dunes, which covered the waste, to https://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/litter-spills-onto-cape-town-beach-as-heavy-rain-causes-breach-at-old-landfill-site-2021-08-31