Tension mounts between climate commission and coal companies | Fin24

The Presidential Climate Commission wants to urgently begin working with the coal players on the Just Energy Transition, but claims conversations so far have been cut short by the industry's denialism.

"Every time we try to move closer to the coal industry and have this conversation we are met with this bluster [that] … either the transition never going to happen or they believe in this fiction that carbon capture and storage is going to rise to the rescue and save the market," Crispian Olver, executive director of the Presidential Commission on Climate Change, said at the Coal and Energy Transition Day on Wednesday.

Olver said China is approaching its transition systematically and is building the local industrial capacity to drive the batteries and the renewable energy transformation.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.

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