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Oil and gas exploration threatens coastal livelihoods
Following President Ramaphosa’s Youth Day speech last week – which mostly focused on the unprecedented high unemployment rate and lack of opportunities – young small-scale fishers, along the coast, say...
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Public participation needed in the just transition
Earlier in this month dedicated to remembering Madiba and the principles he held dear, The Green Connection handed over the verdict statement – as deliberated by an esteemed jury, at its Oceans...
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UN General Assembly must back the right to a healthy environment
With the world embroiled in a multi-faceted environmental crisis, UN experts today urged the United Nations General Assembly to recognise that living in a clean, healthy and sustainable environment is...
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Capacity building for sustaining peace in Africa
Cristina Duarte, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Africa, briefed ambassadors during a debate to examine capacity building for sustaining peace on the continent, and to explore the way...
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Limpopo coal mine challenged over climate impacts
Environmental justice group Earthlife Africa, represented by the Centre for Environmental Rights (CER), is challenging the environmental authorisation of a proposed new coal mine in Limpopo in light of...
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Karpowerships rejection a relief for West Coast fishers
The Green Connection says the Minister of Environmental Affairs Barbara Creecy made the right decision to decline Karpowerships’ appeal application against its failure to get environmental...
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Celebrating Girls in Conservation this Women’s Month
Annually on 9 August South Africa celebrates Women’s Day – part of a month dedicated to the strength and resilience of women and their contribution to society. We thought this a particularly fitting...
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Another vindication for small-scale fishers by the courts
“Civil society, traditional communities and small-scale fishers have once again been vindicated by the courts. Well done to our comrades for staying the course of this fight against Shell, to protect...
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Intervention needed in Kwazulu-Natal rhino poaching case
In the lead-up to World Rhino Day on 22 September, Saving the Wild, in partnership with the Djimon Hounsou Foundation, make an urgent plea for South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, to acknowledge...
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Concerns raised over West Coast oil and gas drilling
As the Azinam/Eco Atlantic oil rig – which left the North Sea on 12 August – makes its way to South Africa to begin its exploration drilling for oil and gas on the West Coast, The Green Connection...
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Sand mining threatens wetlands in Cape Town
An application has been filed for a Water Use License for Keysource Minerals by AGPSA (previously known as Consol) to mine silica sand in the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA). The […]
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COP27 must deliver major climate solutions
This year’s UN Climate Conference takes place in Sharm el-Sheikh, against a backdrop of extreme weather events worldwide, an energy crisis propelled by the war in Ukraine, and scientific data […]
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Concerned citizens march for climate solutions in Joburg
Each year, sometime during the annual COP event, climate and environmental justice activists from around the world join in climate protest action to urge decision makers at COP27 to treat […]
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UN climate adviser calls fossil fuels “a dead end”
Negotiations, sharing solutions aimed at curbing emissions by the world’s biggest-polluting industries, as well as continued calls for climate justice and finance for hard-hit developing countries were...
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Earth Jurisprudence, Land and Property
Most legal systems define land as property – an asset owned either by private individuals, companies, the state, or in some cases, communities. Land is physical, tangible and real – […]
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On the frontline against wildlife poaching in Uganda
As a warden of Uganda’s largest national park, Murchison Falls, Juma Mohammed’s main task is to repel poachers. “We must conduct patrols day and night,” says Mohammed, who coordinates a […]
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Development should not threaten people’s daily bread
On Saturday, Earthlife Africa Johannesburg launched the Mulambwane Eco-Mapping Report with partner organisations. The report raises awareness about the importance of conserving and protecting our...
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$2.54 billion needed to tackle unprecedented health needs
In its appeal, the WHO said that a staggering 339 million people now need humanitarian assistance globally. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the UN agency’s Director-General, urged donors “to be generous”...
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Council of Europe assembly adopts resolution to codify ecocide
Last month in Strasbourg, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted overwhelmingly to adopt resolution 2477 and recommendation 2246, both calling for recognition of ecocide,...
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Annual stimulus needed for sustainable development
The UN on Friday called for a significant increase to the tune of $500 billion each year in extra financing from the world’s most developed nations, to meet the crucial […]
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