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@ South Africa to phase in carbon tax from 2015
Issue Date: May 8, 2013
South Africa has proposed a carbon tax of 120 Rand (about US $13) per tonne of emission of carbon-dioxide equivalent in the second draft of its carbon tax proposal, titled Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and facilitating the transition to a green economy. This follows an earlier announcement made by its finance minister Pravin Gordhan to implement a carbon tax by 2015 during the annual budget speech this year.
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Issue Date: May 15, 2013
>> Jonathan Deal, a South African anti- fracking campaigner is one of six winners of this year’s Goldman Prize, a prestigious environmentalist award. Fracking is a controversial technique of pumping high pressure fluids into shale rock to recover gas.
Trunk call
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
A new e-magazine and iPad app, Unveiling the Ivory Trade, released by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, uses digital storytelling as a campaign tool to highlight the escalating illegal ivory trade. Unveiling the Ivory Trade brings together video, audio, illustrative graphics, visually inspiring photography and interesting text to create a dynamic digital storytelling experience.
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Issue Date: Feb 15, 2013
>> Chinese security researchers have discovered a botnet running on the smartphones of more than a million users in the country. The devices had been infected by a Trojan-based attack first discovered in 2011, Xinhua reported. The botnet can allow the phones to be hijacked remotely.
Improved cure for TB
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2012
A hard rap on drugs
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2012
Developing countries outshine G7 nations in health aid
Issue Date: Mar 27, 2012
The BRICS countries—Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa—have substantially increased funding to the poor countries to improve health.
Although the G7 donors (USA, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, UK and Japan) still provide far more assistance to poor countries, the foreign assistance by BRICS countries between 2005 and 2010 was 10 times higher than that of the G7, notes the report ‘Shifting Paradigm: How the BRICS are reshaping global health and development’ by Global Health Strategies Initiatives (GHSI), an international non-profit.
