Climate, Sustainability & Inequality
Wits' Mission
Wits is at the forefront of addressing South Africa's climate crisis, environmental challenges, and tackling deepening inequality. Through impactful research, transformative teaching, and campus innovation, we're building pathways to a sustainable and equitable future. Climate action toward net-zero by 2050, sustainability solutions for environmental and social challenges, and justice-based approaches to inequality.
Climate, sustainability and inequality in the spotlightMore news and opinion pieces
Peco Power wins prestigious Empower a Billion Lives competition
5 February 2026
Sub-Saharan Africa has lost nearly a quarter of its biodiversity
8 December 2025
Wits and Sappi renew climate change Chair
3 December 2025
TotalEnergies: French court ruling boosts African cases against polluters
2 December 2025
Peco Power wins prestigious Empower a Billion Lives competition
5 February 2026
Sub-Saharan Africa has lost nearly a quarter of its biodiversity
8 December 2025
Wits and Sappi renew climate change Chair
3 December 2025
TotalEnergies: French court ruling boosts African cases against polluters
2 December 2025
23rd International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability
20–22 January 2027 | hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
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