{"id":646803,"date":"2022-11-29T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=646803"},"modified":"2022-11-29T07:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T05:24:18","slug":"business-talk-nbi-ceo-joanne-yawitch-breaks-down-sustainability-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/646803\/business-talk-nbi-ceo-joanne-yawitch-breaks-down-sustainability-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 NBI CEO Joanne Yawitch breaks down sustainability in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Yawitch is the CEO of the National Business Initiative (NBI) and a member of the Inaugural Presidential Climate Change Coordinating Commission.<\/p>\n<p>She has held the position of CEO at the NBI since March 2011 and previously worked as the Deputy General for Climate Change in the Department of Environmental Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Yawitch also worked as the Special Advisor to the Minister of Land Affairs prior to 1997, after which she worked for the Gauteng Department of Environment until 2004.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s episode of Business Talk, Yawitch discusses the impact the NBI has had on sustainability in South Africa since it was founded in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>She explains that the NBI has adopted the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals Framework and details how this contributes to the fight against climate change in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Yawitch then outlines the NBI\u2019s goals for 2030 and beyond and explains how it intends to help build a sustainable future in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>She also unpacks the goals of the Presidential Climate Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview with Joanne Yawitch can be watched below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_9anJ8BIfU0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne Yawitch is the CEO of the National Business Initiative and has worked in the sustainability industry for decades. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":646811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17475,17655],"class_list":["post-646803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-ey-sustainability","tag-joanne-yawitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646813,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646803\/revisions\/646813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}