South Africa: While Politicians Deliberate Climate Change, Others Adapt

1 September 2011

Cape Town — While many scientists, academics and politicians still theorise about ways to adapt to climate change, a South African civil society organisation has launched a hands-on project that mobilises communities to take easy steps to reduce carbon emissions.

Called the Project 90 by 2030, it encourages individuals, organisations and companies to change the way they live and operate by 90 percent by the year 2030. The idea stems from the suggestion environmental activist George Monbiot makes in his book "Heat" that industrialised nations need to reduce their carbon footprint by 90 percent by 2030.

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