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  • RISING ENERGY AND WATER COSTS – FALLING AVAILABILITY AND RELIABILITY – WHAT CAN BE DONE?

    It is well reported that South Africa has gone through, and is going through, a number of crises regarding the dependability of supply of electricity and water. This is resulting in abnormal rises in the cost of electricity and water.

    Past and present political interference halted or delayed development and implementation of long term strategies to ensure reliable electricity supplies, resulting in power blackouts due to inadequate supply. Furthermore, the need to “catch up quickly” has caused the enforcement of highly inflationary price increases of between 25 and 30% per annum for at least the next four years. (more…)

  • ICMM Launches Materials Stewardship Toolkit

    The UK-based International Council on Mining & Minerals (ICMM) has launched an on-line toolkit on materials stewardship, incorporating industry specific tools and case studies of materials stewardship in practice.

    The Toolkit complements the previously published ICMM Guidance document, Maximising Value: Guidance on implementing materials stewardship in the minerals and metals value chain. The Guidance document focused upon why materials stewardship is important and the new toolkit focuses on how to implement the guidance document.

    ICMM reports that materials stewardship is about companies contributing to sustainability by making the best use of intelligent design and application of technology to increase recoveries by extending the resource base through reduced losses, by reducing the use of materials per unit production, by diverting “waste” materials to productive uses and by restoring resources such as land and water to productive use. Materials stewardship is about managing materials throughout their life cycle.

    Dr John Atherton, ICMM’s Director: Materials Stewardship said, “…Materials stewardship is based on a sense of shared responsibility for the resources we utilize and the materials we create. This tool kit will assist companies in delivering this through good practice…”

  • Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System

    The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) used the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, as a platform to launch an inquiry into policy options for guiding the global financial system to invest in the transition to a green economy.

    Mobilising the world’s capital is seen as an essential part of the transition to a sustainable low-carbon economy. It is reported that the green economy will require a capital intensive transition (up to US$6 trillion a year), with investment in new skills, institutions and technologies replacing resource use and pollution. Most flows within and between nations will be capital sourced from commercial financial institutions, institutional investors and public investment vehicles.

    Building on the two pillars of UNEP’s Green Economy Initiative and the UNEP Financial Initiative, the Inquiry will assemble the world’s best practice and forward looking expert knowledge through an Advisory Council; practitioner dialogues and research.

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  • UNEP Green Economy Initiative

    UNEP Green Economy Initiative

    UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) has developed a working definition of a green economy as one that results in improved human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities. In its simplest expression, a green economy can be thought of as one which is low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive. (more…)

  • Finding out about Environmental Management & Sustainability Tools

    The Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) has been around for over 20 years and describes itself as follows:-  “…an organization of leading companies dedicated to foster global environmental, health and safety (EHS) and sustainability excellence through the sharing of tools and information to help business achieve environmental sustainability excellence.” (more…)

  • GEO-5 For Business – Impacts of a Changing Environment on The Corporate Sector

    UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) has long recognised the importance of Business in contributing to the sound management of the environment and has established many programs and published guides to help in this area. (more…)

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