This article helps address this gap by providing critical insights into the opportunities and challenges experienced, and the solutions found in the process of developing and implementing the Durban Climate Change Strategy (DCCS) in the City of Durban, South Africa. T...
“exemption status”, mitigation action is and might remain insufficient to make real progress on lowering global emissions. But given that global energy emissions now stand at some30 billion tonnes per annum and are rising rapidly, waiting for the eradication of poverty is a questionable strategy....
Each service provider must submit a quotation clearly marked "Facilitation of the creation of Durban Climate Change Strategy Regional Partnership" and the Contract Number: 7G-13058. Quotations need to be addressed to Nongcebo Hlongwa and deposited in the box provided in the foyer of the Materials...
Preliminary elements of a practical strategy are described to achieve greater traction for ethical principles to guide international efforts to achieve a just global climate change solution. This paper begins with an ethical review of the major elements of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...
Peri urban agriculture as a new strategy of urban development : A case study in Cenaia , Pisa Rural-urban interface never vanishes but only slides outwards from the city core as the city grows. This interface, so-called "peri-urban area", is charact... B Ozel,S Mecca,FM Lorusso,......
The urban poor often perceive the implementation of innovative technology in low-cost housing projects, townships and informal settlements in South Africa as being a cost saving strategy of providing inferior technology to the poor, that middle- and upper-income groups would not accept. This results...
The DurbanClimate Change Conference in 2011 createdaplatformtowork for a new climate regime in which all countries will participate; the [...] daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 2011年德班气候变化会议为新 的气候体制创立了一个各国都将参加的工作平台,围绕气候变化的人权和司法问 题必须融入这...
In the past year, the South African Government has committed itself to 'developing' the informal sector as a strategy to ease the unemployment crisis and to aid the underemployed. In this paper, the author examines both the lives of self‐employed car‐washers and car‐washing as an activity...
The Republic of Korea stands behind the green economy concept as a strategy to foster sustainable development and poverty eradication. One of the world's main energy exporters, the State of Qatar expressed its eagerness to secure progress in the UN climate change negotiations and to support ...
Request for Quotation: Facilitating the Development of a Regional Partnership for the Durban Adaptation Charter and the Durban Climate Change Strategy Each service provider must submit a quotation clearly marked "Facilitation of the creation of Durban Climate Change Strategy Regional Partnership" and the ...