One of the resolutions shareholders voted on at this AGM was Sasol’s climate change management approach. Like all the resolutions voted on, it was passed, but with the lowest majority of votes 77.36% of shareholders voted for it.
The newly released Integrated Resource Plan has scaled back on renewables, pumped up gas and is delaying the shutdown schedule of old coal plants, with the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy saying the cost of pollution is far less than the cost of energy shortages.
Nelson Mandela University has been roped into the research and implementation of an international project aimed at greening liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Southern Africa.
One of the certainties arising from scientific reports is that at best there is little prospect of restricting global warming to the maximum 1.5°C, to which the nations of the world committed in Paris in 2015. This is Part 1 of a four-part series.