Open call to Western Cape businesses to register for green economy support help desk in their district
IN achieving energy and water security and climate resilience, the Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs and Development Planning (DEA&DP) seeks to highlight the importance of resource resilience for business competitiveness, job creation and economic growth.
To support this, the Department, which aims to strengthen green economy ecosystem businesses by facilitating the uptake of green technologies (with a focus on energy and water), has partnered with GreenCape to host a series of information help desks in the form of a roadshow.
These help desks will be available in districts across the Western Cape for businesses across all sectors (agriculture, construction, manufacturing, food and beverage, textiles etc.), that seek support implementing renewable energy or water-saving technologies to be more energy and water resilient.
Green economy sector desk experts will provide direct, in-person, one-on-one support to businesses on energy-related and water-related matters at these help desks.
Western Cape businesses encouraged to register to access help desks in their district
Businesses across the Western Cape are invited to register to access a series of support help desks that will be rolled out in various districts between mid-July and mid-October 2025. These help desks are free to attend but have limited capacity, so early registration is encouraged. Interested businesses are required to register to attend. For any inquiries, please contact events@green-cape.co.za.
The team will be visiting each district, with venue details provided in the registration form.
The confirmed dates and locations are as follows:
15 July 2025 – Saldanha Bay, West Coast
29 July 2025 – Beaufort West, Central Karoo
31 July 2025 – Mossel Bay, Garden Route
17 September 2025 – Cape Town City Centre
7 October 2025 – Paarl, Cape Winelands
9 October 2025 – Hermanus, Overberg
The help desk roadshow aims to provide direct support to businesses, SMMEs, and companies across the Western Cape province. Each help desk will provide access to:
- One-on-one consultations with green economy sector desk experts
- Resources that will assist businesses with investment decisions on building energy and/or water resilience
- Networking opportunities with other businesses.
Going beyond reducing carbon emissions
The Western Cape DEA&DP roadshow initiative is aimed at improving resource resilience, expanding markets enabling behaviour change, lowering costs, enabling market access, building climate change adaptive capacity, and contributing to climate change mitigation.
Moving decisively towards a green and decarbonised pathway in the Western Cape goes beyond reducing carbon emissions; it is a resource-efficient, socially inclusive economy that creates decent jobs and sustainable infrastructure solutions for current and future generations.
