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South Africa

  • Where Conservation Meets Community: Lessons From South Africa

    Where Conservation Meets Community: Lessons From South Africa

    Columbia Climate School students tackled real-world conservation challenges in one of the planet’s most biodiverse regions.

  • A Road Map for Minibus Electrification

    A Road Map for Minibus Electrification

    A report co-authored by the Center for Sustainable Urban Development offers recommendations for electrifying a popular mode of transportation in three African cities.

  • Rhino Number 100 and World Rhino Day

    Rhino Number 100 and World Rhino Day

    The sound of a chainsaw rises discordantly above all natural sounds, disrupting the quiet of a warm African winters’ day, a destructive sound at odds with the African wilderness. But it is not a tree that is being felled. It is the horn of a rhino.

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  • Where Conservation Meets Community: Lessons From South Africa

    Where Conservation Meets Community: Lessons From South Africa

    Columbia Climate School students tackled real-world conservation challenges in one of the planet’s most biodiverse regions.

  • A Road Map for Minibus Electrification

    A Road Map for Minibus Electrification

    A report co-authored by the Center for Sustainable Urban Development offers recommendations for electrifying a popular mode of transportation in three African cities.

  • Rhino Number 100 and World Rhino Day

    Rhino Number 100 and World Rhino Day

    The sound of a chainsaw rises discordantly above all natural sounds, disrupting the quiet of a warm African winters’ day, a destructive sound at odds with the African wilderness. But it is not a tree that is being felled. It is the horn of a rhino.