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The role of renewable energy for a net-zero carbon economy
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South Africa’s Low Emission Development Strategy, backed by President Ramaphosa, was formulated last year and commits to moving towards a goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, which will require various interventions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
President Ramaphosa reaffirmed this commitment in his recent Sona, stating that Eskom, which is the country’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, has committed in principle to net-zero emissions and to increase its renewable capacity. This was followed by the presidential co-ordinating commission on climate change meeting for the first time, last month, to work on a plan for a just transition to a low-carbon economy and climate resilient society.
The world’s climate champions are hoping that a “Climate Ambition Summit” this weekend will start putting the planet back on track to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of keeping global warming at 2
C. It will be led by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Chilean President Sebastián Piñera.
The Paris Cop21 agreement – the world’s first universal climate control pact – committed all 195 signatories to restrict global warming to an average of less than 2
C above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century, and ideally to cap the increase in global warming at the even lower temperature of 1.5