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Carbon budgets raise urgency of company plans to reduce emissions
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Driving Cape Town’s tourism economy with sustainability at the core
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Celebrating cross-cutting green economy solutions with 2025 FNF GreenPitch Challenge winners
Celebrating cross-cutting green economy solutions with 2025 FNF GreenPitch Challenge winners
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Green building: Key to a low carbon future
Green building: Key to a low carbon future
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THE Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction 2024/2025 published by the UN Environment Programme...
Turning Wastewater into Gold: ARC Researchers’ Biohydrogen Quest for Sustainable Agro-Processing
Turning Wastewater into Gold: ARC Researchers’ Biohydrogen Quest for Sustainable Agro-Processing
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ARC-Natural Resources and Engineering
South Africa’s agro-processing sector is...
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Cape Town brings together stakeholders for official launch of the City’s new Waste Strategy
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Energy, water efficiency key to mining sustainably in Africa
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Jaltech and Wetility seal R500-million deal to solar power thousands of SA homes
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The sustainability edge: Beyond Earth Day, why going green is good for business
Adopting green practices can feel like a drop in the ocean of climate change for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), but as South Africa...
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