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The Alexandra Renewal Project (ARP) is an urban renewal project in Alexandra, Gauteng, northern Johannesburg, South Africa. [1] [2] The project is one of eight urban nodes of the "Integrated Sustainable Rural Development and Urban Renewal Programme" announced by President Thabo Mbeki in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament on 9 February 2001.
Green building in South Africa is overseen by The Green Building Council of South Africa [1] (launched 2007) which has developed Green Star SA rating tools, based on those developed by the Green Building Council of Australia [2] tools, to provide the property industry with an objective measurement for green buildings and to recognize and reward environmental leadership in the property industry.
Proponents of the RDP argue that the programme oversaw many major advances in dealing with South Africa's most severe social problems: RDP Houses in Soweto. Housing: Between 1994 and the start of 2001 over 1.1 million cheap houses eligible for government subsidies had been built, accommodating 5 million of the estimated 12.5 million South Africans without proper housing. [2]
Sustainable construction aims to reduce the negative health and environmental impacts caused by the construction process and by the operation and use of buildings and the built environment. [1] It can be seen as the construction industry's contribution to more sustainable development. Precise definitions vary from place to place, and are ...
The firm was founded as SECOR Ltd in 1994 by John Leeson, Alan Sheppard, and David Richards. After establishing the company in Oxford, United Kingdom, in 1994, David oversaw the growth of the business from a small UK operator into an environmental consultancies in the UK, with international operations across Africa, Australasia, Canada, Europe, and the US
The decentralized investment opportunity provides South Africa with the resources to overcome its current energy crisis. [11] REFIT is the first successful greenhouse gas mitigating projects used in South Africa. [3] The REFIT program was superseded by the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme in May 2011.
At the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) in Durban, the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPP) was introduced to implement the objectives of the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP 2010-2030); [6] of which are to diversify the country's energy mix away from fossil-fired power generation like coal and crude oil, add 30 GW to the grid before 2030, [5] take ...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in South Africa is one of the 177 offices of the UNDP’s global networks located in the country's capital, Pretoria.As a part of the wider UNDP's development efforts, the local office is responsible for supporting the government to develop and implement policies to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) in South Africa.