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The rush hour in Cape Town. Photo: Iwaria.

SO, WHAT HAS SOUTH AFRICA PROMISED TO DO ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Countries around the globe have made plans called Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to reduce carbon emissions.

SOUTH AFRICA published a draft updated NDC in March, with ambitious targets to limit its annual greenhouse gas emissions to 398–440 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (MtCO2e) by 2030, but many campaigners and analysts raised significant concerns about its continuing commitment to coal, which supplies 85% of South Africa’s power.

A combination of the Covid-19 pandemic and a long-term economic shift away from extractive industries and manufacturing has already helped South Africa move towards meeting some of its emission goals, but further progress will depend on massive investment in the country’s power sector, improvements in energy efficiency, a green transport strategy and a carbon tax.

Gwede Mantashe, Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, last month announced plans for a £2 billion Rands investment in renewables to accelerate a shift from coal power generation, but again there are concerns that few of the measures outlined in the updated draft NDC are likely to be implemented in a timely fashion, if at all.

“South Africa’s target is far too weak … Our government’s answer is basically that they are going to continue polluting a lot for decades to come, but a little less more than they were going to do before,” said Dr Alex Lenferna, secretary of South Africa’s Climate Justice Coalition.

South Africa has suffered rolling power cuts over recent years, which have dealt a crippling blow to an already struggling economy, and are forecast to continue for at least five years. But money is short. South Africa has already accessed about $2bn a year in 2018 and 2019 to meet adaptation and mitigation needs but will need four times more annually by 2030 to meet the targets laid out in the NDC.

Source: theguardian.com


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