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A debate at the second Local Government Environment Indaba in Kempton Park last week looked at reasons for the failure of municipalities to implement climate mitigation strategies despite a number of policies on climate adaptation being in place for more than a decade.
Following a decade of consultation and public debates, South Africa introduced a carbon tax in June 2019. Treasury faced strong opposition, especially from energy intensive businesses. But the country’s ratification of the Paris Climate Agreement in November 2016 signalled the government’s commitment to responding to climate change and gave impetus to implementing the carbon tax. In line with the international “polluter pays” principle, the tax attaches a cost to greenhouse gas emissions. The idea is to change the behaviour of large emitters.
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