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Women, energy and the Covid-19 opportunity
Petro de Wet discusses how gender diversity in the energy, industrial and agricultural sectors can enhance South Africa's efforts to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions South Africa is the...
An initiative is under way to accelerate the adoption by South African industrial firms of the international energy management standard ISO 50001, which is designed to help improve the performance...
Biogas courses offered online despite delay
As cement, aggregate and readymix concrete producer AfriSam marks ten years since the inaugural AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Design + Innovation, the 2019/20 edition is likely to set new...
Lack of finance hinders energy efficiency implementation in companies
Milisha Pillay argues that there has never been a more opportune time for financial institutions to become more invested in structuring financial packages that are designed to appreciate the...
Covid-19 an opportunity for better resource management
The national lockdown because of Covid-19 presents a good opportunity for manufacturing companies to improve their resource and utilities management, says government-funded programme National...
South Africa has duty to address SADC energy efficiency
South Africa has a duty to make the energy efficiency knowledge accrued through the Industrial Energy Efficiency Project (IEEP) more accessible to the rest of the Southern African Development...
Continued relevance of the ISO 50001 standard
Using energy efficiently contributes towards an organisation's objectives to conserve resources and tackle climate change, while saving money. The ISO 50001 standard supports organisations of all...
Potential of biogas technology in South Africa
The uptake of biogas projects in Africa has been sporadic, and projects that have failed abound. Biogas technology is not new, but the systems are sensitive and changes in feedstock and the...
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USTR Greer says he's open to 'different treatment' of South Africa under trade initiative
US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Tuesday said he is open to treating South Africa differently than other African countries if Washington extends a trade initiative with sub-Saharan Africa...
Imesa calls for engineers to be included in compiling updated White Paper on Local Government
Nonprofit organisation the Institute of Municipal Engineering of Southern Africa (Imesa) has warned that if engineers are not involved in writing the updated White Paper on Local Government, the...
IATA cuts 2025 SAF forecast, warns EU, UK mandates stalling progress
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has lowered its forecast for global sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production for this year, stating that government mandates in the EU and the...