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15 August 2026 · 18 400 recipients · 46% open · 9% click

The Green Brief: Transmission, tariffs and the storage reset

This week: 3.2 GW of grid capacity reallocated, storage bids 31% below benchmark, and what Treasury's climate budget rules mean for municipalities.

8 August 2026 · 18 660 recipients · 40% open · 7% click

The Green Brief: Water is the constraint now

Non-revenue water passes 47% in a third of municipalities, industrial reuse economics, and the sanitation funding cliff.

5 August 2026 · 19 700 recipients · 43% open · 10% click

GEJ Edition 47 is out: Infrastructure, Innovation & Impact

Read the new edition, plus the foreword from our editor and this issue's Who's Who interview.

1 August 2026 · 18 920 recipients · 45% open · 9% click

The Green Brief: Disclosure season

IFRS S2 readiness across JSE mid-caps, the taxonomy uptake problem, and why ESG ratings disagree.

25 July 2026 · 19 180 recipients · 39% open · 9% click

The Green Brief: Fleets, freight and the modal-shift argument

Electric minibus taxi pilots, depot charging as a network problem, and where rail beats electrification on tonnes.

18 July 2026 · 19 440 recipients · 40% open · 7% click

The Green Brief: Circularity's unit-economics problem

EPR fees rise, recovery rates do not, and the reuse models that survived their pilot phase.

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