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Tax experts give their predictions for Budget 2011
18 February 2011, source: Moneywebtax
URL: http://www.moneywebtax.co.za/moneywebtax/view/moneywebtax/en/page1504?oid=56301&sn=Detail&pid=1
Most argue that there is little room for tax relief.
Roux, head of fixed income, Investec Asset Management
Since the September Mini Budget, Government revenue has disappointed. All of the big ticket items are going to fall short of the Treasury's mid-term projections. Although in part a consequence of the post Wold Cup soft patch that the economy experienced in the latter part of the year, it is also the result of regulatory changes in the payment schedules for corporate tax...
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Meetings Africa 2011 embraces global greening trend
18 February 2011, source: Bizcommunity.com
URL: http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/94/56934.html
Africa's biggest and premier Business Tourism exhibition, Meetings Africa, is going green! For the first time since its inception in 2007, Meetings Africa will be eco-audited by an independent sustainability consultancy, Icologie, bringing it in line with globally developed greening and sustainability standards...
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Comments on Shell Proposal to Explore for Natural Gas in Karoo Shales
18 February 2011, source: Earthlife
URL: http://www.earthlife.org.za/?p=1499
Earthlife Africa Jhb is opposed to Shell (or any other company) exploring Karoo Shale Formations for the purpose of fracking in terms of natural gas extraction. We believe that this has the potential of violating the Constitutional Right of citizens of South Africa (in particular, residents of the Karoo) to a clean, safe and healthy environment...
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Energy-intensive firms team up to make carbon tax input
18 February 2011, source: newsUpdates.co.za
URL: http://newsupdates.co.za/energy-intensive-firms-team-up-to-make-carbon-tax-input-249886.htm
Energy-intensive companies operating in South Africa have established an ‘Industry Task Team on Climate Change’, or ITTCC, to prepare a formal response to the National Treasury’s ‘Carbon Tax Discussion Paper’, which was released for public comment on December 13, 2010 – interested parties have until February 28 to make submissions...
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Top international figures gather in Rome for IFAD Governing Council
17 February 2011, source: Zawya.com
URL: http://ae.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20110217115013/Top-international-figures-gather-in-Rome-for-IFAD-Governing-Council
Rome - This year's Governing Council meeting of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will bring together prominent international figures, youth leaders and high-ranking government officials. Top of the agenda is the potential for young people in developing countries to drive successful smallholder agriculture and rural economic growth...
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Integrating food and energy crops can help reduce poverty, new UN study finds
17 February 2011, source: UN News Centre
URL: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=37553&Cr=farm&Cr1=
Farming systems that combine crops that can be used for food and fuel can help reduce poverty and boost food and energy security, says a new report published today by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The report, entitled “Making Integrated Food-Energy Systems (IFES) Work for People and Climate – An Overview,” uses specific examples from Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as from some developed countries to show how food and energy crops can be successfully integrated...
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To stop starvation, Kenya must stop fire-fighting approach to food security
17 February 2011, source: Daily Nation
URL: http://www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Kenya+must+stop+fire+fighting+approach+to+food+security+/-/440808/1109458/-/gpwb1dz/-/
How can Kenya feed its future doubled population, given its fire-fighting approach to food security?
The flames of famine are flaring in the usual suspect districts in Kenya with the accompanying appeals for help for starving men, women, and children.
Ignited by the usual reason — failed rains — and as the government runs around to put out the fire, I wonder how prepared we are for a future that is predicted to get even worse...
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Weather at Home - use your computer to help model climate change
17 February 2011, source: Earth Times
URL: http://www.earthtimes.org/scitech/weather-computer-model-climate-change/27/
Scientists don't know enough about climate change, particularly how it will vary locally. One of the most significant climate sites, climateprediction.net has today launched an experiment you can do at home.
It's called “weatherathome” in partnership with the UK's Met. Office, and with support from Microsoft Research, to develop a regional climate model that is available for download so you can run it on your personal computer anywhere...
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The World Social Forum and the battle for COP17
17 February 2011, source: Pambazuka News
URL: http://pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/70971
In a world plunged ever deeper into an uncivilised global capitalist condition, the World Social Forum (WSF) is a crucial beacon of hope. At its recent gathering in Senegal, the news of the unfolding democratic revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt electrified the spirit of optimism pervading the multiple axes of deliberation...
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Zuma set to visit France
17 February 2011, source: Times Live
URL: http://www.timeslive.co.za/business/article921004.ece/Zuma-set-to-visit-France
President Jacob Zuma will lead a high-profile economic delegation on a state visit to France from March 2 to 3, according to Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
The delegation includes Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa and Nkoana-Mashabane...
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Africa: Making Women's Voices Count in Disaster Risk Reduction
16 February 2011, source: AllAfrica.com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/201102160484.html
Ndambuenda — "I thought it would be a normal flood like the ones that happen often here; but this time was different," recalled Vittoria Amosse, who until 2008 lived in a small village on the Zambezi floodplain in Mozambique.
Major flooding that year forced Amosse and her family to flee, taking only what few goods they could carry...
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Scientists connect global warming to extreme rain
16 February 2011, source: The Detroit News
URL: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SCI_CLIMATE_FLOODS?SITE=MIDTN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
WASHINGTON (AP) - Extreme rainstorms and snowfalls have grown substantially stronger, two studies suggest, with scientists for the first time finding the telltale fingerprints of man-made global warming on downpours that often cause deadly flooding.
Two studies in Wednesday's issue of the journal Nature link heavy rains to increases in greenhouse gases more than ever before...
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Durban UN climate change talks to finalize institution building arrangements
16 February 2011, source: Afrique en ligne
URL: http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/durban-un-climate-change-talks-to-finalize-institution-building-arrangements-201102161851.html
Lusaka, Zambia - The next UN climate change conference which will take place in Durban, South Africa, towards the end of the year, will focus on finalizing and adopting the institution-building arrangements launched in Cancun, Mexico, last December, as well as the methodologies to provide the rigour and transparency...
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Climate change at Sci-Bono
16 February 2011, source: newsUpdates.co.za
URL: http://newsupdates.co.za/climate-change-at-sci-bono-247288.htm
Moves by South Africa's big five cities to beat climate change are on show at Sci-Bono. In Joburg’s corner are Rea Vaya and Cosmo City, among others.
Climate change – and what the big five South African cities are doing to fight it – is the subject of an exhibition at Sci-Bono Discovery Centre in Newtown...
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Climate change and Africa's vanishing lake
15 February 2011, source: Mail & Guardian
URL: http://mg.co.za/article/2011-02-15-climate-change-and-africas-vanishing-lake/
evokes memories of famines such as those in 1980s Ethiopia. But Fatime and 4,3-million other children who are suffering from chronic malnutrition are victims of a more permanent crisis -- the disappearance of Lake Chad.As South Africa prepares to host the United Nations climate change summit in Durban this year, Lake Chad is living proof of the continent's environment in crisis...
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