Category Archives: Policy reviews

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Project 90’s response to the budget

On 26 February our Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, gave the annual budget speech. Our Policy and Research Officer Happy Khambule takes a look at what this means for energy planning and climate change in South Africa. Continue reading

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SA must do more with the same for its future electricity supply

Project 90 is delighted that the recent publication of the Smart Electricity Report is receiving a lot of media coverage. Business Day Live recently published an article written by Robert Fischer about the report, which you can read on our blog. Continue reading

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So COP? Your power to work on climate change.

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After the first 4 blogs in this series, it may be clear to you that the outcomes of COP17 are definitely not conclusive. In the immediate future, they will not lead to what we need – real action to avoid catastrophic human induced climate change. In our last post of this series, we look at some things you can start doing in your own life to start the change that we need. Continue reading

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Project 90 and civil society at COP17

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In the third part of our COP17 series we look at the role of civil society in the global negotiations and why Project 90 resolved to stay away from Durban last December. Continue reading

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What do the COP17 outcomes mean for us?

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In our first blog in this series about COP17 we spoke about the background and the conferences that came before it. Here we discuss what the outcomes mean for us and the planet. What is your opinion of COP17 – a big step forward or a total cop out? Continue reading