There hasn't been enough done to build renewable energy plants in South Africa, Dion George said.
environment minister said his primary focus will be on getting the country to spend the billions of dollars of climate finance that have been made available to it, accelerating the development of renewable energy facilities.said more needs to be done to implement the US$9.3-billion Just Energy Transition Partnership with some of the world’s richest nations.
Having secured the deal in 2021 in what has been billed as a prototype for similar pacts now being rolled out in Indonesia and Vietnam, South Africa has yet to close down any of the coal-fired power plants it pledged to and has only added 150MW of renewable energy to the grid. The JETP has been mired in bickering in South Africa with the country’s former and current energy ministers, both from the ANC, saying that the country was being used as a “guinea pig” by developed nations trying to promote a global green transition. Coal, which accounts for about 80% of South Africa’s electricity generation, supports about 90 000 mining jobs and its extraction and use for power generation is a crucial economic activity in the Mpumalanga province.
“We would like to highlight the importance for South Africa to achieve their JETP targets,” Germany’s development ministry said in a response to queries.
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