
In transitions to
a Green Economy, South Africa’s people are its greatest resource.
Environmental professionals have a significant role to play in addressing some of the most pressing issues of our time including water and food security, climate change, biodiversity loss and poverty eradication.
Environmental management underpins resource, economic and social sustainability. Healthy ecosystems are more than just natural ‘infrastructure’ they are the foundational assets and life support systems that provide valuable and critical services in support of human activities and well-being.
As we transition to a green and circular economy and embrace the importance of healthy ecosystems, there exists unsurpassed opportunity for value creation through biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, management and production of goods and services.
South Africa has high levels of scarcity in the very skills that support the related research, monitoring and management of these ecological services and systems.
GreenMatter is a registered non profit organisation focused on green skills development.
