World Environment Day highlights importance of sustained climate action
- World Environment Day was celebrated on 5 June.
- Experts at SU wrote opinion pieces for the media.
- They highlighted the importance of sustained climate action.
AI and climate change, climate apathy and environmental amnesia, climate change as a health emergency, and environmental protection. These are the issues that experts at Stellenbosch University explored in opinion pieces for the media in celebration of World Environment Day on 5 June. Click on the links below to read the articles as published.
- Dr Blessing Afolayan (World Environment Day: The great AI-climate paradox – Mail & Guardian)
- Dr Lize Barclay (Is the world having environmental amnesia? – News24)
- Dr Christian Lueme Lokotola (Why climate change is a health emergency: An urgent call to action on World Environment Day – Weekend Argus)
- Dr Ruda Murray (More than just another day – Cape Argus)
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