Centre for Environmental Rights – Advancing Environmental Rights in South Africa

CER calls on government to heed public health professionals’ call for climate leadership

16 September 2020

Protecting water means protecting women

13 August 2020

Municipalities’ efforts to procure clean, affordable and reliable electricity dealt a court blow

12 August 2020

Water Tribunal says climate change must be considered in water licence applications for coal power plants

5 August 2020

No decisions about our energy future without transparency, says groundWork

28 July 2020

Appeal for donations to help community activists hard hit by COVID-19

17 July 2020

CER Board appoints two new non-executive directors

10 July 2020

Call for Nominations Environmental Rights & Remedies: a course for activists

1 July 2020

Vaal communities demand accountability from polluter ArcelorMittal at its shareholder meeting

30 June 2020

Environmental defenders and activists in court against SLAPP suits

9 June 2020

The Life After Coal Campaign’s 3 important submissions on government’s latest proposed electricity regulations and plans

5 June 2020

SA’s developmental finance bodies fall short on transparency

1 June 2020

NGOs reject proposed new gas law, demanding instead a just and equitable transition to clean energy sources

29 May 2020

IDC and DBSA’s investment policies must support just recovery

27 May 2020

Minister Creecy upholds enforcement action against Eskom’s killer Kendal power station

18 May 2020

CER makes a Constitutional case for local government to provide clean electricity

13 May 2020

Court case to decide on the power of municipalities to develop their own electricity

8 May 2020

Eskom resists enforcement while new evidence on deaths caused by Kendal’s pollution emerge

29 April 2020

Victory: Environment Minister orders the disclosure of big polluters’ climate information

9 April 2020

Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, government locks SA into deadly air pollution

31 March 2020