Credit: © Greenpeace Africa / Mujahid Safodien
Credit: © Greenpeace Africa / Mujahid Safodien
We rounded up some key observations from activists in the Life After Coal Campaign after President Cyril Ramaposa’s much awaited State of the National Address on 10 February 2022. This was a critical address for Ra... continued
Plans for the proposed Nseleni Independent Floating Gas Power Plant in Richards Bay have been stymied by refusals of two of its licence applications by different regulatory authori... continued
Credit: Chris de Beer-Procter
Climate and environmental justice groups cautiously welcome the $8.5 billion partnership announced at COP26 today, but demand transparency about the scope and conditions, and accountability by lenders, benefici... continued
Report for Earthjustice and the Centre for Environmental Rights
July 2021
by Robert Scholes and Francois Engelbrecht
Global Change Institute, U... continued
by Bruno Merven, Jesse Burton, Patrick Lehmann-Grube
Energy System Research Group, University of Cape Town
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS:
This report assesses the differences in total ... continuedThis report is about Mama Fikile Ntshangase, a dynamic and courageous mother, grandmother and retired teacher from South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, who was assassinated while preparing dinner in her home in the cl... continued
by Melissa Fourie
We find ourselves at a historic moment of compounding emergencies and time is of the essence. The lethargy of the past decade in implement... continued
The 2021 Global Coal Exit List (GCEL) shows that 49% of the world’s coal ind... continued
The Life After Coal campaign (comprising the environmental justice groups groundWork and Earthlife Africa, and public interest environmental law group the Centre for Environmental Rights) ca... continued
Eskom has indicated the following as decommissioning dates for its ageing coal-fired power stations. View in detail...
| Power Station | Date |
|---|---|
| Grootvlei | 2018 |
| Komati | 2019 |
| Camden | 2020 |
| Hendrina | 2020 |
| Arnot | 2021 |
| Kriel | 2026 |
| Matla | 2029 |
| Duvha | 2030 |
| Lethabo | 2035 |
| Tutuka | 2035 |
| Matimba | 2037 |
| Kendal | 2038 |
| Majuba | 2046 |
The CER is a non-profit organisation of activist lawyers who help communities and civil society organisations realise our Constitutional right to a healthy environment… read more
Earthlife Africa Johannesburg was founded in 1988 to mobilise civil society around environmental issues in relation to people… read more
groundWork is a non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organisation working in the areas of Climate & Energy Justice, Coal, Environmental Health… read more