Who We Are

The City of Johannesburg is undoubtedly South Africa's largest and most prosperous city, endowed with world-class infrastructure and relatively high levels of human capital. The city therefore is faced with enormous challenges such as development pressures emanating from urbanisation, poverty, high levels of unemployment and increased demand for basic services. The city has acknowledged that its economic development should be underpinned by sustainability principles. In this regard, some of the programmes undertaken include amongst others: regulatory services; pollution reduction; mitigating impacts of climate change; environmental education and capacity building.

The Vision of The City of Johannesburg on the environment is: ‘An environmentally sustainable city, that anticipates, manages and reduces its vulnerability to potential global and local environmental shocks, and works consistently to reduce the impact of its own built environment and urban processes on the broader envelope of natural resources'