Tag: RenewableEnergy
Africa’s energy future may well lie in the sun
Across the African continent, one topic increasingly dominates conversations in boardrooms, parliaments and everyday households - energy. When the grid fails, and the lights go out, the consequences cascade through industry, education, health services and family life. Energy has therefore moved beyond being a purely economic matter.
The role of businesses in accelerating the net-zero journey
The shift towards net-zero is no longer a distant aspiration. Instead, it has become an urgent reality. Rising global temperatures now intensify extreme weather events. As a result, accelerating the net-zero journey has become critical. For South Africa, the world’s 11th highest emitter of greenhouse gases, the transition is complex.
Just energy transition – just who gets left behind?
As South Africa plans to host the G20, there is revived interest and a hive of side events taking place looking at how to make the energy transition to cleaner energy use just for all. With an official unemployment rate of 32.9%, the justness of South Africa’s energy transition must consider potential job losses in the country’s high emission coal energy sector that still employs roughly 92,000 people.
