South Africa

Region: South Africa

South Africa:

Projects
8
Resources
9
Stories
40
Resource
8th June 2012
INSIDE STORY: Making renewable energy affordable - the South African Renewables Initiative In this Inside Story, Murray Ward explores some of the challenges faced by the South Africa Renewables Initiative (SARi), in particular relating to financing the incremental costs of renewables in a context of political and social opposition to rising energy prices.
Resource
8th June 2012
INSIDE STORY: South Africa's municipal integrated development plans The municipalities of Cape Town and eThekwini have been early movers in mainstreaming climate change within their municipals. This CDKN Inside Story argues that mainstreaming climate change into IDPs is necessary but not sufficient to achieve climate compatible development.
Feature
12th March 2012
Accelerating the global transition to clean energy Emily Miller reports on the work of the newly created Clean Energy Solutions Center, which is working with policy-makers in South Africa and Indonesia to turn clean energy visions into action.
Feature
24th February 2012
Powering Southern Africa - the future of hydro in the Zambezi River Basin CDKN is supporting a study on the impact of climate change and upstream irrigation development on hydropower in the Zambezi River Basin. Most of the northern SADC countries already rely primarily on hydropower, and this will increase in the future. However, many of these countries are also periodically under water stress during drought, while the water demand continues to grow, largely due to major irrigation investments.
Resource
3rd February 2012
Green tourism in South Africa Listen to a podcast from IPS discussing how ecotourism bring benefits not only in terms of reducing impact on the environment but also raising awareness among local people about the need to mitigate climate change.
Resource
3rd February 2012
Adapting tea farming to changing rainfall in South Africa A podcast from IPS on climate challenges and adaptation efforts in the South Africa tea industry.
Completed
Project
Completed
Project : Building the future with climate change and development professionals: CDKN capacity building

This project supports climate and development-related research by 14 MSc students from across the globe.

Feature
9th June 2011
South Africa’s approach to the politics of climate negotiations As Africa’s highest greenhouse gas emitter, South Africa has different interests and expectations for an international climate agreement than most of its African neighbours, particularly on mitigation. Aaron Atteridge, Research Fellow with the Stockholm Environment Institute, posits that the balancing of many competing foreign policy objectives might make the country’s approach to climate negotiations more unpredictable than it has been in the past. Aaron points to some early signs of a shifting national position, particularly a building rhetoric on the need for ‘carbon space’, and to domestic economic interests becoming more engaged, making it challenging to maintain its international image as a constructive player in the negotiations.
Feature
1st June 2011
From planning to action - lessons from Durban’s adaptation response Many new and surprising lessons are arising from cities doing pioneering work in local climate change response. Debra Roberts shares some interesting findings from Durban’s experiences of trying to promote meaningful adaptation action on the ground.