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10th March 2021
The narrative that Botswana is a Toyota country continues to play itself out as the Japanese car-maker is still occupies the number one spot in the local vehicle market.
Vehicle registrations data compiled by the national statistics agency â Statistics Botswana (SB) for the third quarter of 2020 (Q3:2020) shows that Toyota registered 37.5 percent of total first registrations, proving to be the most popular make in the country.
Honda and Mazda followed with 10.7 and 10.3 percent respectively while Yamaha proved to be the favourite motor cycle, accounting for 64.1 percent of total motor cycles.
Statistics Botswana says a total of 11,818 motor vehicle first registrations were recorded in Q3 2020 and 72.1 percent of them were passenger cars. Motor vehicle first registrations in Q3 2020 increased by 123.8 percent from 5,281 registered in the previous quarter.
18th February 2021
Botswana’s Negotiator at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Professor Julius Atlhopheng has said that funding mechanisms remain a major challenge for countries with low economies to implement their pledges for the Paris Agreement of 2015.
During the Conference of Parties (COP21), also Paris Agreement, countries pledged to reduce their emission of Green House Gases (GHG) so that they reduce the rise of global temperature by 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030.
In an interview with this publication at his office at the Department of Environmental Science, Professor Atlhopheng indicated that all countries had submitted what was called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs). Although even developed countries are far from reaching their targets, developing countries are compromised by lack of funding. They do not have budget for tackling climate change.