In these last days of November 2024, the fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee will meet in Busan, South Korea, to develop an internationally legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment. Environment Digest 46 – The Politics of Plastic by Peter-John Pearson

South Africa’s achievement in contributing the term ‘load shedding’ to current English is not necessarily anything to be proud of, but the fact that we have gone without these rotational electricity cuts since late March probably is. It is significant enough, anyway, to have been the subject of a recent BBC report. Environment Digest 45 – Developments […]

On 4th January 2024 the Department of Minerals and Energy released the 2023 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for public comment. The IRP is in effect an estimation of how much electricity the country will need at a given point, and how that electricity will be generated – from coal and other fossil fuels, from nuclear energy, and from […]