Statement by the Climate Justice Now! South Africa.
Government disregards Nedlac's outcome on a call for national stakeholder
debate on nuclear energy. On the 16th of March the South Africa cabinet endorsed the Integrated
Resource Plan 2010 with a nuclear mix of 23% over the next 20 years. By
approving the IRP 2010 as such, government has ignored concerns raised by
society and indeed the National and Economic Development and Labour Council
(Nedlac) itself.
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A Call to the 1st National Conference of the Democratic Left.
Unite to Make Another South Africa and World Possible! A Call for united anti-capitalist action and for Democratic Left Politics
Press Statement issued by Interim Steering Committee of CDL
This is a call to social movements, trade unions, other progressive mass organisations, progressive civil society organisations, left forces and supportive individuals committed to an anti-capitalist politics to come together in unity and action in the 1st National Conference of the Democratic Left (CDL), a Conference Against Capitalism and for Democratic Left Politics. Through this conference, the momentum of the 2-year old CDL process is reaching an important milestone. The conference will take place as follows:
DATE : Starting at 13h00 on Thursday, 20 January 2011
Ending 13h00 on Sunday, 23 January 2011
VENUE : Wits University, Johannesburg
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EU ‘Sees the light’ on energy efficient lamps: mercury content going down
Environmental NGO's welcome the European Commission's decision to reduce the maximum mercury content in certain energy efficient lamps. It is not only a good step for the EU but also establishes a global precedent for others to follow, they say.
See the press release from Zero Mercury Campaign: European Environmental Bureau, Mercury Policy Project, Green Purchasing Institute
New Eskom CEO– Facing Regional Challenge
Maputo, Mozambique and Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Brian Dames, Eskom’s new Chief Executive Officer is being challenged by African Civil Society Organisations to reverse South Africa and Eskom’s role in further destructive damming of the Zambezi River, through the proposed Mphanda Nkuwa Dam. Read more...
Read an open letter to Eskom CEO on proposed hydro projects in Mozambique from SA and Mozambican organisations
Statement by Friends of the Earth Africa at the Annual General Meeting held in Kampala, Uganda, May 2010
Members of FoE Africa from Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia and Uganda met for four days in Kampala, Uganda Africa from 18-21st May 2010 reviewing issues that confront the African continent. A particular focus was placed on the current climate change crisis, land grabbing and extraction and exploitation of Africa’s natural resources. Read their statement.
South Africans say no to Eskom’s R29 billion World Bank loan
Communities, environmental groups, academics and NGOs today call on the World
Bank to cease and desist from a proposed loan of R29 billion ($3.75 bn) to Eskom. If
this loan – which may come up for a Board vote in March or April – goes through, poor
South Africans will have to bear the burden of Eskom’s debt and the World Bank’s cost
recovery programme, and climate change will intensify. A world campaign begins now. See Press Statement
World Bank money for Eskom will amplify South Africa’s energy, climate and
poverty crises. Read more...
Keep the Coal in the Hole
Critics of World Bank Financing for Eskom announce global "No Coal Loan" campaign. Dozens of civil society organisations will announce a global campaign against the World Bank and Eskom, endorsed by dozens of civil society organisations, with the intention of preventing a $3.75 billion loan (possibly $4 billion) that would dramatically raise South Africa’s world-leading carbon emissions and the price of electricity to ordinary people. The organisations represent millions of concerned citizens, community, environmental, labour and academic constituencies, in South Africa, the rest of the African continent and the world at large. Press Conference held simutaneously:
Durban: International Convention Centre, 45 Bram Fischer Road
Washington: Sierra Club headquarters, 408 C St NE
DATE: Monday, 22nd February 2010
TIME: 4pm South Africa time, 9am EST (Washington)
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