ROAD TO COP28 Five things to watch out for at COP’s biggest gathering yet, this time in Dubai 4 min 1 By Onke Ngcuka
COST OF CATASTROPHE The Trillion-Dollar Toll — world’s largest fossil fuel companies on the hook for unprecedented damages: study 3 min 5 By Ethan van Diemen
PLEDGES WITH PROBLEMS Financing and increased adaptation ‘central to South Africa’s negotiating position’ at COP28 4 min 2 By Onke Ngcuka
THREE DAYS LATER Activists say ‘no more soft approach’ to climate change, need more from Standard Bank 8 min 12 By Lerato Mutsila and Julia Evans
FORCED REMOVAL Climate activists, journalist forcibly ejected from Standard Bank HQ anti-fossil fuel protest 7 min 34 By Lerato Mutsila and Julia Evans
NAIROBI DECLARATION Africa Climate Summit ends with call for action and pledge of $23bn in investment 5 min 2 By Onke Ngcuka
AFRICA CLIMATE WEEK We must ‘plant seeds of change,’ declare activists at Nairobi climate summit 4 min 0 By Ethan van Diemen
NOT WALKING THE TALK Spending on global fossil fuel subsidies in 2022 shattered all-time records – report 4 min 0 By Onke Ngcuka
DISPATCH FROM COP27 What the world is learning from South Africa’s nascent Just Energy Transition Investment Plan 9 min 4 By Ethan van Diemen in Sharm el-Sheikh
EXPLAINER South Africa’s R1.5-trillion plan for decarbonising in the next five years 4 min 14 By Onke Ngcuka
JUST TRANSITION OP-ED Secretly negotiated South African climate finance deal a gift to private investors while choking local development 6 min 0 By Basani Baloyi and Gilad Isaacs
JUST TRANSITION OP-ED SA stands out from the crowd at COP27, but needs to seize the investor opportunity 4 min 5 By Sharon Wood
DECARBONISING Ramaphosa's R1.5-trillion just transition plan will not override South Africa’s energy policy 4 min 2 By Onke Ngcuka
JUST ENERGY TRANSITION R9bn Komati repurposing project ‘will need to be replicated hundreds of times’, says World Bank executive 9 min 0 By Julia Evans
COP27 FINANCE DAY SA secures R10.7-billion loan from European nations for focus on cleaner energy sources 3 min 3 By Ethan van Diemen
COP27 Ramaphosa calls for less talk and more action on global climate pledges to countries with ‘greatest need’ 4 min 8 By Ethan van Diemen
JUST TRANSITION SA formally hands over R1.5-trillion clean energy investment plan to International Partners Group in Egypt 4 min 9 By Ethan van Diemen in Sharm el-Sheikh
ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS Global climate adaptation failure puts world at risk, new UN report finds 3 min 0 By Julia Evans
RESTORING THE GRAND BARGAIN OP-ED Global North and Global South must move on climate action together – not piecemeal, but as a package 4 min 0 By Sameh Shoukry
ISS TODAY ANALYSIS Countdown to Africa’s Climate COP begins amid growing global uncertainty 3 min 0 By Dhesigen Naidoo
CLIMATE CRISIS OP-ED The road to Sharm el-Sheikh: UCT lays the groundwork for COP27 5 min 1 By Noncedo Vutula
