The bright side of load shedding: SA companies are doing pretty good on sustainability | Businessinsider

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The bright side of load shedding: SA companies are doing pretty good on sustainability.

– in 2015, that aims to limit global warming and cap greenhouse gas emissions. That's led more companies to set carbon neutrality targets, to help the environment and avoid climate change taxes.

"The big driver [for sustainable business practices] is probably business continuity because of poor service delivery, but the resultant by-product to that is more efficient, more sustainable organisations," Kevin James, the founder and CEO of GCX, a strategic environmental sustainability and project development company that works with corporates to track their carbon reduction targets, told Business Insider SA.

"Five years ago, it could've been argued that the business case for solar just wasn't there yet and going and approaching your boss and saying we need to do an installation of solar could've been a career-limiting move, because the pay-back periods were too long and with competing priorities for budget… but, today, the business case is a no-brainer for solar."

"The same extends to water as well as waste [and] I think a lot of people don't realise that in South Africa, most of our landfills are filling up. So, all of these three crises represent business continuity as well as sustainability issues," said James.

 

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