{"id":248,"date":"2011-12-05T18:08:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T18:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/?p=248"},"modified":"2012-04-17T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:25:34","slug":"taylor21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/2011\/12\/05\/taylor21\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Taylor on South Africa\u2019s sustainable development situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Taylor of the African Center for Cities and the Stockholm Environment Institute discusses South Africa\u2019s position as they move forward with sustainable development after COP 17. She notes poverty and economic inequality as the biggest obstacle for South Africa\u2019s development. Coal as the primary source of energy is also a huge issue as the fuel is one of the dirtiest forms of energy and this will need to change as the country develops. Taylor also notes that the country has rapidly transitioned into a democracy and is still working to make that a reality.<\/p>\n<p><em>Interviewed by Emily Bowie, Elena Capaldi and Maggie Rees on December 5, 2011, COP 17, Durban, South Africa<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Taylor of the African Center for Cities and the Stockholm Environment Institute discusses South Africa\u2019s position as they move forward with sustainable development after COP 17. She notes poverty and economic inequality as the biggest obstacle for South Africa\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/2011\/12\/05\/taylor21\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":837,"featured_media":322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25622,1657,55817,2874,55808],"tags":[1482,55864,1301,40552,34284,25625,48548,25703,1470,55935],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-development","category-lgma","category-south-africa","category-vulnerability","tag-adaptation","tag-anna-taylor","tag-climate-change","tag-durban","tag-elena-capaldi","tag-emily-bowie","tag-inequality","tag-maggie-rees","tag-poverty","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}