All articles by Angelo Louw
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AFCON: TotalEnergies plays dirty on the soccer field
TotalEnergies' AFCON sponsorship is a clear ploy to clean up its image as a climate-wrecking fossil fuel company that's scrambling for Africa's oil and gas
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Can gender equality end the climate crisis? Here’s 5 blogs
Looking for blogs that unpack the relationship between gender, human rights and climate breakdown? We’ve got you covered
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Big oil’s generational curse: pollutant-related epigenetic changes keeps South Africans in poverty cycle
After 60 years of exposure to air pollution by surrounding oil refineries, it will take this South African community at least two generations to reverse epigenetic changes
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3 African activists protecting food rights against Big Agriculture
Three activists who are pushing back to protect the right of African communities to continue our culture and traditions around food
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How the climate crisis is perpetuating hate crimes in South Africa
Without sensitisation of the climate crisis, the LGBTQIA+ community remain at risk of violence, exclusion from the economy and climate relief efforts
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5 Reasons to Save the Okavango Delta from Oil Colonialism
Youth climate activists in the Namibian capital, together with Indigenous, environmental and human rights groups, are taking action to prevent a fossil fuel industry-driven catastrophe in the Okavango Delta
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#PlasticsTreaty: Why a global plastics treaty is essential to Africa
Policy-makers at UNEA-5.2 don’t have to look very far from where they are right now to understand why an ambitious global plastics treaty is necessary.
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#PlasticsTreaty: Stop exploiting African and other global majority countries with ‘waste colonialism’
Richer countries are scrambling to find nations in the global majority to ship their waste off to. Angelo Louw unpacks waste colonialism and the need for a strong global plastic treaty
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Wild forests are disappearing faster and faster every year. We must act now
A new study by Greenpeace mapping experts and the University of Maryland shows that we are the last generation that can still save wild forests
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Shell in South Africa: fossil fuels at full blast
Just weeks after COP26, the South African government has given Shell the go-ahead to explore for MORE oil and gas, threatening local livelihoods, marine life and the fight against climate change