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Eskom has failed South Africans: it’s time for new management
Today, we joined forces with two other environmental organisation - Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and groundWork, to put South Africa’s energy utility, Eskom, under new management.
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Eskom Set to Accelerate Water Crisis
Coal-fired electricity is a major threat to South Africa’s already stressed water resources – and Eskom’s new mega coal plants are set to make matters even worse, further compromising water access for the poor. Currently almost a million South African households still have no access to water.
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The True Cost of Nuclear Energy
Our new report highlights once again that nuclear power is a dead-end: it would lock the country into an out-dated, expensive and deadly energy future.
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Eskom: Clean Up Your Act!
Greenpeace Africa activists used three dumper trucks to unload five tonnes of coal in front of the Eskom Megawatt Park offices, effectively blocking one of the entrances to the building with the coal.
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Crisis for FSC in the Congo Basin?
Greenpeace and many other Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) members and stakeholders are seriously concerned that an increasing number of FSC certificates are being granted around the world to logging companies that do not meet the international principles and criteria for forest stewardship, or key policies and standards.
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Zuma Must Not Get Caught in a Nuclear Trap
With the announcement of cooperation agreements having been signed between South African and French energy companies, Greenpeace reiterates its call to President Zuma not to fall into the dangerous trap of nuclear energy.
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Turning REDD into Green
Can a National REDD Plan in the Democratic Republic of Congo set a new course for the protection of forests, people and global climate?
