Reporting : Background

On 26 October 1999, the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, the honourable minister Valli Moosa, officially launched the National State of the Environment Report on the Internet. The full report is available on-line at http://www.environment.gov.za/soer/nsoer/index.htm

During the same event, state of the environment reporting on the metropolitan level for Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, and Pretoria were launched. The state of the environment reports were the result of the first year of a pilot project on state of the environment reporting in South Africa funded by NORAD with technical assistance from GRID-Arendal and Ugland Publikit.

The four South African cities have joined the city of Arendal and the Finnish city of Turku in the growing line up of world cities with state of the environment reports on the Internet.

Since the release of the National and Metropolitan State of Environment Reports, reports were released for Midrand and North West Province. Several provinces and local authorities have started state of the environment initiatives in 2002. Local authorities include Mangaung, Mbombela, Mogale City and Sedibeng,

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