Hot off the press and circulating in cyberspace is the December 2011 – Climate Change edition of Enviroworks, published in time for COP 17 – the Seventeenth Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is taking place in Durban from 28 November to 9 December 2011.
This highly informative edition of Enviroworks sheds light on the major socio-economic challenge of climate change, and includes articles by world experts. It answers questions about the reality of climate change, what the future holds for residents in Cape Town, and how we are responding. Written in a way that is easy to understand and informative it dispels the myths, explains the issues and looks at how we can work together in a world challenged by a changing climate.
Leaving no page unturned the contents include:
- Climate change – is it real?
- So, you think you have a good idea of what the future holds?
- Imagine Cape Town – hotter, drier, windier, stormier and wetter
- Our planet’s energy picture
- But where will I put all that coal?
- Good COP, bad COP
- Cape Town to COP – the Climate Smart Cape Town campaign
- Striving for an optimum energy future
- Building a climate-smart city
- African mayors unite to tackle climate change
- The rands (and no sense) of doing nothing about climate change
- We are all in this together
- The climate is changing, what about you?
Don’t miss the December edition of Enviroworks – read it today and be informed.
Printed copies are available from Glen Takeloo on 021 487 2829 or glen.takeloo@capetown.gov.za
Click here to download the December 2011 edition and for back copies, visit www.capetown.gov.za/enviroworks
Enviroworks is a biannual newsletter produced by the City’s Environmental Resource Management Department in collaboration with other City departments.
To find out more about Climate Smart Cape Town, visit www.ClimateSmartCapeTown.co.za
