Sensus interview with Bishop Geoff Davies
10/20/2011 • During a recent visit to Germany, SAFCEI executive director Bishop Geoff Davies was interviewed on the subject of climate justice in Africa by the Swedish organisation Sensus. (Direct link to video clip.) Sensus is a remarkable organisation... more
SAFCEI and SACC lead SA faith leaders’ calls for climate justice
09/29/2011 • This is the final joint press release from the South African interfaith conference on climate change in Durban last week. The conference was initiated by SAFCEI, in partnership with the South African Council of Churches, environmental... more
SAFCEI grieves the passing of Wangari Maathai
09/28/2011 • SAFCEI learned with great sadness of the passing on 25 September of the great African environmentalist and human rights activist, Kenyan Nobel laureate Dr Wangari Maathai. We were most honoured to have her launch SAFCEI in July... more
SAFCEI Monthly: August
08/19/2011 • Dear friends of SAFCEI, It is proving to be an extremely busy year for us, as we race with a mixture of hope and misgivings towards COP17, the huge UN climate change conference that will unfold for... more
Is the current financial system fundamentally unsustainable, asks the Ha!Man
08/17/2011 • Many critics argue that the current global financial system is demonstrating its own lack of sustainability, even setting aside the fact that it completely fails to account for humanity's current destruction of "natural capital" – the marvellous... more
Well done, DEA, on prosecution of industrial polluters
08/17/2011 • We at SAFCEI sometimes give the Department of Environmental Affairs a bit of a hard time when we feel they're not doing as much as they should be. So to be fair, we should acknowledge the... more
Cormac Cullinan addresses SAFCEI AGM in Durban
07/23/2011 • On 19 July 2011, SAFCEI was glad to play host to leading environmental thinker and lawyer, Cormac Cullinan, at our AGM at the Diakonia Centre in Durban. An environmental lawyer and thinker on Earth jurisprudence still little known... more
