January 30, 2019 350Africa Welcomes Nedbank’s Clean Break Away From Coal Following years of portraying themselves as a green bank, Nedbank has demonstrated their willingness to Make Change Happen and address climate risks by withdrawing from...
December 21, 2018 350Africa.org welcomes the appointment of Professor Mark Swilling as board chairperson at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) In a move that seems to favour #ThumaMinaDBSA – a call on the Development bank of Southern Africa to commit to not fund the Thabametsi...
December 12, 2018 South Africa Energy Week: It’s time for the DBSA to #MakeChangeHappen Yesterday, together with a group of individuals and activists from various partner organisations including Project 90 by 2030, The Green Anglicans, and Fossil Free South...
July 24, 2018 Bank’s dirty secret continues to undermine their shiny talk Renewable energy is cool. It’s clean, it’s technologically advanced, provides jobs and is cheaper than fossil fuels. In Africa particularly, it is a great way...
April 8, 2018 Protection of South Africa’s water resources, means not a cent more should be invested in the country’s water guzzling coal sector. Higher temperatures and diminished rainfall, which experts have attributed to climate change are wreaking havoc across many of South Africa’s provinces. The drought is the...
