Can our planet recover from climate change? Commissioning Editor, Kofoworola Belo-Osagie, asked scientists to share the reasons they believe there is hope.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new plan to address South Africa’s electricity crisis has been widely panned in the media as being ‘too little too late’ or lacking details or timeframes, but Mark Swilling, co-director of the Centre for Sustainability Transitions at Stellenbosch University,.
The growing focus of higher educational institutions on mobilising and marshalling their capacity to generate research into the climate crisis is a logical step to address the wicked problem of climate change. This focus, however, fails to recognise the potential of students themselves as chang.