A Climate Change Bill will be introduced soon into the National Assembly. The main object of the Bill is to implement, with a view to addressing the adverse effects of climate change and developing Mauritius into a greener economy, the obligations of Mauritius under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, the Paris Agreement and any other related instrument on climate change. The Bill also establishes a legal framework towards making Mauritius a climate-change resilient and low emission country.
Day: 17th October 2020
234 new Wi-Fi hotspots to be installed soon
An additional 234 free Wi-Fi hotspots will be installed soon in different regions of Mauritius and Rodrigues. The new Wi-Fi hotspots, which are in addition to those that have been already installed by Mauritius Telecom, aim at providing a wider coverage of Wi-Fi accessibility in these regions. The setting up of the additional hotspots would span over a period of three years.
Civic Amenity Centre
The first Civic Amenity Centre (dechetterie) will be operational at La Chaumière by November 2020, thus setting the pace to moving towards a circular economy as announced in Budget Speech 2020-2021. A Civic Amenity Centre is essentially a facility whereby households and small and medium enterprises can dispose of specific types of wastes, which normally are not collected as part of the normal waste collection service. It consists of containers/bays for temporary storage of different sorted waste fractions whereby recyclers collect the ‘waste’ materials for further processing.