Africa Institute

Mid-Term Review (MTR) of the BCRC Support Project

Mid-Term Review (MTR) of Basel Convention Regional Centre (BCRC) Support Programme The MTR is underway at the Africa Institute, in Pretoria as of this month. MFA has commissioned independent consultant to undertake this task and they met with Africa institute staff on Tuesday the 15th January 201...

Study Tour

STUDY TOUR OF THE AFRICA INSTITUTE MEMBER COUNTRIES-TO HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITIES GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA; SEPTEMBER 2012 The Africa Institute facilitated a study tour for member countries, to South Africa. The tour was one of the planned activities under the BCRC Support Programme funded b...

Rotterdam Convention Sub Regional Workshop

The Sub-Regional workshop to identify elements of National Action Plans or strategies for the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention for Eritrea, Mauritius, Namibia, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The third meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP.3, October 2006) agreed to continue with n...

LDC Projects

Capacity Strengthening and Technical Assistance for the Implementation of the Stockholm Convention (SC) National Implementation Plans (NIPs) in African Least Developed Countries (LDC) of the SADC and COMESA and ECOWAS Sub regions The least developed countries (LDCs) in the Southern African Developme...

The Finish Parliament visits Africa Institute

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 03/23/2012 – 15:35 The 13th of March, 2012 saw a height of cooperation between south and north as the Finish representatives of parliament visited the Africa Institute in Pretoria. Finland is one of the major funders of activities of the Africa Institute and on beh...

E-waste Consultations + PACE Working Group 5th physical meeting

Date: Monday, April 23, 2012 – 08:00 - Friday, April 27, 2012 – 17:00 Target audience: PACE working group members Geographic coverage: Global Main organizer: Secretariat of the Basel Conventioni Partners: Basel Convention Regional Centre for the Central America Sub-region including M...

Critical to create awareness of carbon dioxide emissions

Atmospheric pollution affects the quality of our air in many areas in South Africa, especially where there is industrial activity, such as coal burning power stations and oil refineries. While this type of pollution more immediately impacts on human health, it is also a major contributing factor to ...

“The World Capital of Oil Pollution”

Shell claimed responsibility for two oil spills dating back to 2008. And these are not your run of the mill destructive oil spills — they are estimated to exceed the 11 million gallons spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster. Until yesterday, Shell had claimed less than 40,000 gallons had been s...