Engineering News 2 February 2011.

The tab for South Africa’s hosting of the seventeenth conference of the parties (COP17) climate change talks in Durban later this year could be more than R320-million, Environmental Affairs DDG Joanne Yawitch revealed on Wednesday. But she added that the country was planning to organise a “lean and mean” event and would also seek to raise outside funding for the event…

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/sa-faces-big-bill-big-tests-as-climate-talks-head-for-durban-2011-02-02