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Africa’s Cement Industry to Gather in Cape Town
Africa’s cement industry will for two days this April gather in one of the continent’s biggest environmental and sustainable built environment events.
The inaugural Environmental Cement Africa Conference in Cape Town, South Africa will identify and deliberate on issues around the environment from the African cement producers’ perspective, Demsas Faloppa, CEO of Prescon Ltd, the event’s [...]
How to Get the Most of Sustainable CSR Communication
Successful businesses are those that plan for long-term, sustainable development, taking into account the social and environmental impacts of their activities.
This means considering the effect of every part of your business on the environment and society. Simply put, your business should have minimal negative effect on the wider world.
Taking a sustainable approach will typically be [...]
Maathai Shouts Above Din of Politics on Kenya’s Mau Forest
Kenya’s Nobel laureate and environmentalist, Wangari Maathai, has sent a strong message to her country’s political class urging that forest conservation was important to reclaiming depleted resources.
Protagonists in the east African nation’s fragile coalition government have taken divergent positions on a symbolic tree planting exercise on Friday that was to have been led by president [...]
Usain Bolt Engages with Ecotourism in ‘The Long Run’
Jamaican sprinter and Olympic champion Usain Bolt has launched the Long Run Initiative aimed at supporting global ecotourism projects, which the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says are vital for conserving natural and cultural heritage.
Taking a significantly environmentally-focused break from the track, Bolt was joined by British sprinter, Colin Jackson, to signature the Zeitz Foundation’s [...]
Nedbank Tops South African CDP Report 2009 Leadership Index
Nedbank Group has been declared the 2009 overall winner of the prestigious South African Carbon Disclosure Project Report Leadership Index, a shift that saw a move up from 4th place in the 2008
CDP leadership index. Other corporates that placed included Bidvest Group, Woolworths Holdings, BHP Billiton, Goldfields and Sappi.
Nedbank is reputed as South Africa’s ‘green’ [...]
