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OneWorld Sustainable Investments
Studio 604, 6th Floor
4 Loop Street
Cape Town
South Africa
How invigorating to get out of the office once in a while and interact with “real people” in the region rather than names in your email contact list! The RCCP is first and foremost a programme and partnership for and with the people of Southern Africa. I am learning fast how people from all walks [...]
Leonie Joubert
A few years ago I read this fabulous little factoid: it takes something like 66 calories of energy to ship every one calorie of carrot from South Africa to the European supermarket. Okay, I’m a bit rusty on the exact figure (was it 66 or 86?) but the point is that it took [...]
The Assembly,
1. TAKES NOTE of the report of H E Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the coordinator of the Conference of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change (CAHOSCC), on the conduct and outcomes of the 15th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on [...]
For me, Copenhagen resembled a high-stakes game of Russian roulette, all sides wanting their own, unique outcomes. And despite a very detailed two-year negotiating process, Copenhagen failed to narrow divides and build geopolitical bridges. The developing countries wanted a result whereby they could proclaim to the world that the Kyoto Protocol had been saved. The [...]
Day 14: To sleep, perchance to dream…
Slept late. Woke feeling groggy.
Went online. Sunday Independent’s front page top story: “The Hopelesshagen flop”
It’s all over. I survived my first CoP (Conference of the Parties).
And now I feel the gravity of home beginning to reel me in … time to shower, pack and head for the airport.
Copenhagen. Hopenhagen. [...]
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