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There is an increasing awareness of the role companies play in the economic and ecological development of societies ... Read more
Published: 11 May 2012
Focus Areas: Role of Business in Society
But some companies are starting to suffer from regulatory and compliance fatigue ... Read more
Published: 10 May 2012
Focus Areas: Role of Business in Society
While evidence is mounting that South Africa is facing a water crisis of 'substantial proportions', the country's largest companies ... Read more
Published: 1 May 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Water scarcity and declining quality are likely to adversely impact on major companies within five years, making water conservation ... Read more
Published: 13 April 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
SA is a semi-arid country and water is increasingly scarce because demand and supply are in a very precarious balance ... Read more
Published: 22 March 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
A report has revealed that most listed companies in SA are unable to properly account for their water use ... Read more
Published: 13 March 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Local businesses need to act now to avoid potentially devastating water-related risks, says SAs first Water Disclosure Report ... Read more
Published: 12 March 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
out 58% of water-intensive users among the JSE’s Top 100 companies are exposed to water-related risk ... Read more
Published: 12 March 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Metro councils will have to scale up data collection and employ a systems approach to energy issues as cities ... Read more
Published: 23 February 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Boosting its carbon disclosure score from 46 percent in 2010 to 83 percent in 2011, South Africa’s largest JSE listed property ... Read more
Published: 14 February 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
While many nongovernmental organisations claimed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) ... Read more
Published: 3 February 2012
Focus Areas: COP17
The quality of education is a major concern for all South Africans. In response to this challenge, representatives of business, organised labour, the community constituency in ... Read more
Published: 3 February 2012
Focus Areas: Human Capital
The Climate Change Leadership Awards (CCLA) has extended its closing date for entries from 31 January 31 to 10 February ... Read more
Published: 3 February 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Insurance sector can play a critical role in helping society to adapt to increasing climate risk ... Read more
Published: 31 January 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
In a result reflecting the significance of sustainability issues in the mining sector, Gold Fields was ranked first in the JSE Top 100 Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index by the global Carbon Disclosure Project 2011. ... Read more
Published: 21 January 2012
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
SA’s carbon market participation has been given a reprieve after the Durban-hosted United Nations (UN) climate change talks ... Read more
Published: 15 December 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Responses to the deal reached by 195 countries at the climate change talks in Durban last week range from praising the compromise as a “historic agreement” ... Read more
Published: 15 December 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Governments, including 38 industrialised countries, have agreed to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol from January 2013 as the COP17 drew to a close on early hours of Sunday morning. ... Read more
Published: 11 December 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
The energy department, Business Unity South Africa (Busa) and the National Business Initiative (NBI) have signed an Energy Efficiency Leadership Network Pledge ... Read more
Published: 9 December 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Visionary companies worldwide are setting themselves unbelievably ambitious targets for sustainability and empowerment in their operations ... Read more
Published: 9 December 2011
Focus Areas: Role of Business in Society
The JSE'S top 100 companies account for about 20 percent of South Africa's annual carbon emissions, estimated at 510 million tons, ... Read more
Published: 7 December 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Only three out of 9 property funds listed on the JSE have participated in a voluntary exercise to measure the carbon footprint of the JSE’s top 100. ... Read more
Published: 6 December 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
National Planning Minister Trevor Manuel, who is co-chair of the Green Climate Find transitional committee, said on Friday the funds establishment ... Read more
Published: 2 December 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
Businesses are moving towards greener initiatives. Not only are people starting to choose more environmentally friendly options, but our earth is demanding it ... Read more
Published: 2 December 2011
Focus Areas: Role of Business in Society
Although South Africa’s banks do not expect major new agreements at the Conference of the Parties (COP17) this week, they have an important role to play ... Read more
Published: 27 November 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
he diversification debate, with the possibilities for renewable and non-fossil fuels, has been bouncing around for a long time. With COP 17 around the corner, ... Read more
Published: 25 November 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
South Africa needs to change its economic model to one that is not emissions-heavy, but it might shoot itself in the foot with an emissions reduction pledge. ... Read more
Published: 22 November 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Implats het deelgeneem aan vanjaar se koolstof-openbaarmakingsprojek (CDP 2011) en die maatskappy se terugvoer is beskikbaar ... Read more
Published: 18 November 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Hosted by the Nedbank head office in Sandton, the pre-Cop17 summit convened by the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa and National Business Initiative was a resounding success. ... Read more
Published: 18 November 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
The seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP17) which kicks off in South Africa shortly will again shift global attention ... Read more
Published: 17 November 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
The National Business Initiative (NBI) will host a series of panel discussions, debates and launches related to climate change and sustainable business practices and initiatives is being convened by the NBI ... Read more
Published: 16 November 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs, Edna Molewa, says working towards creating a green economy in South Africa could create 300 000 jobs ... Read more
Published: 8 November 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Environmental sustainability is being recognised as an important business driver for competitiveness, National Business Initiative (NBI) programme manager Steve Nicholls said on ... Read more
Published: 8 November 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, Role of Business in Society
Launched in March 2011, the COP17 CEO Business Forum is a vehicle for businesses in South Africa to become involved in climate change mitigation and adaptation. ... Read more
Published: 4 November 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
The seventeenth Conference of the Parties, COP 17, in Durban next month, will not be “an easy one”, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said on Friday. ... Read more
Published: 21 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
We just concluded the traditional Pre-COP Ministerial consultations. The meeting was attended by representatives from 42 countries. ... Read more
Published: 21 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
UN climate talks in South Africa next month must make meaningful progress or governments "risk permanent damage to their credibility", a group of global businesses warned on Thursday. ... Read more
Published: 20 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
The winners of the 2010 Association of Certified Chartered Accountants South Africa, (ACCA SA) Sustainability Reporting Awards were announced at a special function ... Read more
Published: 19 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, Role of Business in Society
When South Africa hosts the United Nations Climate Change meeting, COP 17 (17th Conference of the Parties), it will be make or break for the Kyoto Protocol. ... Read more
Published: 18 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
National Business Initiative chairman Cas Coovadia said yesterday it was "totally unacceptable" that neither Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel nor Gauteng economic development MEC Qedani Mahlangu made good on their promise to address ... Read more
Published: 18 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
South Africa would need to ensure a balanced approach to its roles as a negotiating party and as the president of the seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) ... Read more
Published: 18 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) the province where the COP 17 climate conference will get under way late next month, has identified wind energy as one of the key opportunities ... Read more
Published: 17 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
The world needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50 percent by 2050 to hold temperatures at within ... Read more
Published: 14 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
Where will the money come from and what does a lack of finance mean for a country like South Africa where implementing climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are heavily dependent on financing? ... Read more
Published: 14 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
Cabinet has approved the National Climate Change Response Policy, government spokesman Jimmy Manyi said on Thursday. ... Read more
Published: 13 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
The National Climate Change Response Policy White Paper, which is to be gazetted next week, will give South Africa some “moral high ground” as it goes into COP17. ... Read more
Published: 13 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
South African will take an “African” position at the global climate change meeting in Durban later this year, Environmental Affairs chief negotiator Alf Wills said ... Read more
Published: 10 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
Issues of Gender and Climate Change were set out in the Commission for Gender Equality Policy document “No Gender Equality without an Earth to Have It On” ... Read more
Published: 10 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
Global climate change negotiators concluded their last round of discussions before next month's UN convention faint hope of extending the Kyoto Protocol beyond next year ... Read more
Published: 10 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
With less than 50 days to the kick-off of the 17th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP17), South Africa is well on track with its preparations for the conference. ... Read more
Published: 9 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
Talks on climate change have kicked off in Panama City with the incoming COP17 President, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane ... Read more
Published: 4 October 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
Business has yet to engage fully with COP 17, the 17th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, to be held in Durban from November 28 to December 9. ... Read more
Published: 30 September 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
The Anti-Corruption Policy Dialogue and Collective Action Workshop, an interactive high-level event featuring training sessions, opportunities for dialogue and a joint regional meeting of Local Networks, concluded today in Johannesburg ... Read more
Published: 29 September 2011
Focus Areas: Role of Business in Society
From 28 November to 9 December 2011, a great deal of attention will be focused on Durban and given the slow and arduous process of negotiations, there is no doubt that media attention will be focused on South Africa. ... Read more
Published: 23 September 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
South African businesses that did not involve themselves in the yearend United Nations (UN) talks on climate change ... Read more
Published: 16 September 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
South African companies should be aware that business is being given an opportunity to engage in global climate change negotiations not only as an observer, but through stakeholder programmes and side events. ... Read more
Published: 15 September 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) technology executive committee kicked off its first meeting, ahead of the seventeenth Conference of the Parties, to be held in Durban, in November and December, on Thursday, in Germany. ... Read more
Published: 1 September 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Many local companies are involved in a number of initiatives to reduce carbon emissions, writes Stephen Timm ... Read more
Published: 31 August 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
South Africa should be eligible to receive between $1 billion (about R7 billion) and $2 billion in international climate finance annually by 2020 ... Read more
Published: 31 August 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
A record rise in global greenhouse emissions and ever tighter economic constraints make it crucial for United Nations climate talks in South Africa in November to overcome years of deadlock and deliver a solution, the UN's climate chief told Reuters. ... Read more
Published: 31 August 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
With less than three months before the international Climate Summit, ministers from the BASIC group of countries - Brazil, South Africa, India and China, reiterated the importance of achieving a comprehensive, balanced and ambitious result in Durban. ... Read more
Published: 28 August 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Business incubator Sasol ChemCity reports that its enterprise development efforts to support new and existing SMEs have resulted in more than 85 o/0 of these still being in business one year after receiving assistance from the incubator. ... Read more
Published: 26 August 2011
Focus Areas: Economic Linkages
SA Must not abandon its labour-intensive industries in its climate change mitigation and adaptation strategy, Planning Minister Trevor Manuel said yesterday. ... Read more
Published: 26 August 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
The countdown to this year's United Nations Climate summit in Durban has begun, with exactly 100 days left before delegates descend on the city for one of the biggest gatherings on climate change in history. ... Read more
Published: 21 August 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Senior executives from various business sectors have established a platform that enables them a consolidated business voice ... Read more
Published: 16 August 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
KPMG’s global climate change and sustainability advisor Yvo de Boer said on Tuesday that there should be more interaction between governments and the private sector on the international climate change negotiations, as decisions at this forum impacted on b ... Read more
Published: 16 August 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Take a good look at it. The water you hold in your hand is vital to life. Which makes one wonder just how long someone could go without it. ... Read more
Published: 5 August 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Pupils, parents and teachers from Zwaansuyk High School in Retreat, joined employees from Johnson & Johnson and the National Business Initiative to celebrate the launch ... Read more
Published: 3 August 2011
Focus Areas: Human Capital
Today marks exactly 117 days before the start of the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the ... Read more
Published: 2 August 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa reported on 2 August 2011 that South Africa’s negotiating position for the UNFCCC's COP 17 would be submitted for Cabinet approval ... Read more
Published: 2 August 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Businesses and governments need to adopt new ways of engagement and innovative public–private partnerships (PPPs) to trigger ... Read more
Published: 1 August 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17, Role of Business in Society
The National Business Initiative has been one of the driving forces behind the establishment of the SASDC. ... Read more
Published: 29 July 2011
Focus Areas: Economic Linkages
Suid-Afrikaanse sakeleiers het pas 'n forum gestig om steun te bied en betrokkenheid te bevorder rakende die land se klimaatsveranderingstrategie in aanloop ... Read more
Published: 25 July 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17
Sustainable business practices need to become a strategic imperative if organisations — and the societies and environments that support them — are to survive and thrive. ... Read more
Published: 22 July 2011
Focus Areas: Role of Business in Society
The South African government would need to work on resolving the political issues tying up the climate change negotiations. ... Read more
Published: 19 July 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
As carbon footprint initiatives become government legislated requirements in countries such as South Africa, more travel industry players are feeling the pressure to toe the line in offsetting or reducing their carbon footprint. ... Read more
Published: 1 July 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Business was keenly awaiting the expected release next month of the government's plan to use this year's United Nations climate-change talks in Durban to showcase the country and local business ... Read more
Published: 28 June 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Die belangrikste vraag oor vaardigheidsontwikkeling is of jong mense. ... Read more
Published: 28 June 2011
Focus Areas: Human Capital
The dearth of skill in SA is hampering economic growth; ... Read more
Published: 17 June 2011
Focus Areas: Human Capital
Foreign companies and investors keen to put money into SA's fledgling green economy were "waiting for the right signals" from SA, the founder of an inter-national business conference to run in parallel with the United Nations climate talks in Durban Said ... Read more
Published: 8 June 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Reducing emissions is top strategic challenge for businesses, writes Sanchia Temkin ... Read more
Published: 6 June 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
AfriSam has partnered with The Lapdesk Company to bring lapdesks to thousands of learners across the southern African region ... Read more
Published: 1 June 2011
Focus Areas: Human Capital
Results from the 4th annual report by the South African subsidiary of the Carbon Disclosure Project (2010) suggest that more and more South African businesses are adopting green initiatives as a strategic necessity. ... Read more
Published: 1 June 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Siemens Integrity Initiative will provide USD 4.35 million in funding to promote collective action by business and improve management training on anti-corruption.(New York, 9 December 2010) – On the occasion of International Anti-Corruption Day, the ... ... Read more
Published: 31 May 2011
Focus Areas: Role of Business in Society
As a coal producer and an intensive energy user, Exxaro plays a significant role within the context of South Africa's 'energyscape'. Given this scenario, in 2007 Exxaro took it upon itself to pro-actively address these issues in their broadest context. ... Read more
Published: 27 May 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
Climate change experts and negotiators from Brazil, South Africa, India and China, the ‘Basic’ grouping, are meeting in Durban over the next two days, to discuss a common negotiating position for the 17th conference of the parties (COP17) in December. ... Read more
Published: 26 May 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Five years ago, the South African port of Durban - threatened by storm surges and sea-level rise - pioneered a cross-sectoral climate adaptation policy similar to ones in London and New York, but is now experimenting with new policies more suited to a dev ... Read more
Published: 24 May 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Durban businesses are being called on to get in on the act for the major UN conference on climate change (Cop17), but are feeling the pressure as the high-level talks begin in six months. ... Read more
Published: 14 May 2011
Focus Areas: COP17
Building for a sustainable future AfriSam's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy is integral to its corporate objectives and not just to satisfy legal requirements. Tsholo Diale, corporate social responsibility manager, says the company is one o ... Read more
Published: 1 May 2011
Focus Areas: Role of Business in Society
Climate change and abating natural resources are no longer just an environmental concern. They are a major influence in the financial market. It's not just fashionable to be green anymore - it's also a solid investment. ... Read more
Published: 1 May 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy
South Africa faced a “difficult challenge as a country” in dealing with a set of tough issues that were not dealt with at the 2010 Cancun global climate change negotiations, said Joanne Yawitch, who was one of the government’s main climate negotiators bef ... Read more
Published: 17 March 2011
Focus Areas: Climate and Energy, COP17, Role of Business in Society
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