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Lufthansa Innovation Hub has launched its new Compensaid sustainability platform sustainability, which will make it possible for travellers to offset their individual carbon footprint using Sustainable Aviation Fuel... Read
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Climate Change
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RIZWAN NAWAZ & ADEL SHARIF
Almost all scientists agree that burning fossil fuels is contributing to climate change. But agreement is less clear cut on how exactly it's influencing rising global temperatures... Read
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Education & Training
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JANINE ESPIN
The construction sector is in dire straits. Due to slow economic growth many constructions companies are under immense pressure which includes retrenchments and possible business closure... Read
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Environment & Natural Resources
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Driven through pioneering conservation models funded by the Table Mountain Fund (TMF), innovative work is taking place across the Western Cape to increase the Protected Area network... Read
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Food, Water & Energy Security
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Where does your food come from? Over half of South Africa's population live in cities, with no direct access to farms... View
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Health & Welfare
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Boss Dog Food has paired up with Emma O'Brien, award-winning dog photographer and the author of Mutts, on its new #BigOnRescue campaign - which is aimed at encouraging the adoption... Read
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Inclusion, Equity & Human Rights
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Women in Architecture, in partnership with the South African Institute Architects (SAIA KZN), earlier this month hosted its 'The future is not female... It is intersectional' workshop... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
One of the highlights of last year's Loeries Masterclasses was the Women in Marketing (WIM) Africa launch event. Here Andrea Opoku, director and Africa ambassador for Women in Marketing, shares growth since then as well as the context of this year's WIM Africa event on the power of women in influencer marketing, with some interesting global insights... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The media and advertising industries play an important role in stirring the way society is portrayed. Here's why UN Women and Dove's masterclass session at Loeries 2019 called for the creative industry as a whole to take a stand and work actively towards better representation, particularly in terms of gender... Read
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Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology
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JANNA ROSALES
The scale, pace and breadth of technological development in artificial intelligence, robotics, computing, biotechnology, materials science and beyond have ushered in the fourth industrial revolution. Read
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Pollution & Waste Management
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Hasbro, one of the world's largest toy manufacturers, has stated its ambition to eliminate all plastic in packaging for new products by the end of 2022, including plastic elements like polybags, elastic bands, shrink wrap, window sheets and blister packs... Read
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Recently implemented local legislation has banned all liquid waste from landfill - signalling a massive shift in South African waste legislation and placing significant importance on the effective management of such waste by waste producers and the waste industry alike... Read
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With a combined market of over 1.2 billion people and a GDP of $2.5 trillion, AfCFTA could potentially make Africa the largest free trade area in the world. Vera Songwe, the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa explains what's next... Read
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MEST Africa continues its commitment to early-stage startups, investing in eleven teams from its 2019 graduating cohort... Read
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ALFRED OTENG-YEBOAH
Ghana's Atewa forest is one of the most beautiful and scenic landscapes in the country... Read
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CHRIS VENTER
More than any other industrial revolution that has come before, the fourth industrial revolution has humanity at its core... Read
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'The Rise of Eve' recognises the rise of the female economy as women increasingly take the lead at home and the workplace... Read
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