A push into farming could help address the potential job losses in Mpumalanga from the nation’s move away from coal.
South Africa could replace coal and power-plant jobs by investing in citrus and marijuana plantations to produce hemp in its coal belt as the nation, the world’s 15th-biggest producer of greenhouse gases, tries to wean itself off dependency on the dirtiest fossil fuel, a study showed.
As coal mines and power plants close in the province, which has an unemployment rate of 38%, as many as 24,000 jobs could be lost by 2030, the researchers wrote in the study. South Africa and the Mpumalanga province are in focus as an $8.8 billion climate finance pact with some of the world’s richest nations — known as the Just Energy Transition Partnership — serves as a prototype for similar projects tin Indonesia, Vietnam and Senegal.
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