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Video: Interview with South African activist Bongani Mthembu

By Pontus Westerberg, 19 October 2011

Bongani Mthembu is from Umlazi, South Africa’s second biggest township. He is a campaigner with South Durban Community Environmental Alliance, and campaigns against industrial pollution in the area. He is working to educate ordinary South Africans about environmental injustice, and organising demonstrations at December’s UN climate talks in Durban, calling for solutions that also tackle poverty and inequality.

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2011

The UK government puts £10 million of its climate finance towards the UN Adaptation Fund, and agrees to give the majority of its funds to the World Bank's climate adaptation fund as grants rather than loans.

2010

The Royal Bank of Scotland commits to developing external environmental, social and ethical risk statements and internally implementing similar policies for oil and gas, mining and metals and forestry and defence.

2010

The EU allocates €40 million to support twinning arrangements between public water utilities in poor regions of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific and wealthier European countries.

2009

Following joint campaigning by WDM and other groups and organisations, EON shelves plans for a new coal power station at Kingsnorth in Kent.