Tamsin Faragher

Working to build a liveable world

Tagged: Climate mitigation

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Opinion Pieces

Should we plant millions of trees in Cape Town? What impact will it have on climate change? If any?

“Rising temperatures will cause more death than all infectious diseases” the Guardian Newspaper reported on 4 August 2020. As the world battles to get a handle on COVID, it doesn’t really need competition for headlines. However, if the study is correct, “the growing but largely unrecognized death toll from rising...

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Opinion Pieces

Can South Africa’s proud heritage of womens’ activism and landscape architects meet the urgent demands of climate mitigation and adaption?

Women have played a significant role in the struggle for South Africa’s freedom. Today’s dangers and battles are those against unseen threats that manifest in the extreme weather resulting from climate change and the underpinning structural economic inequality. This blogpost reflects on a recent Institute of Landscape Architecture of South Africa webinar that focused on the impacts of climate change on women.

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