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President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged to meet the nation's net zero carbon emission target despite a push to keep coal-fired power plants open. | News24_Business

Ramaphosa met with the Presidential Climate Change Commission on Wednesday. This follows an electricity colloquium held on Friday, where recommendations for the country's electricity planning were discussed. These recommendations take into account the need to limit carbon emissions and short-term measures to address the electricity crisis, and involved extensive consultations with communities and other stakeholders.

A later statement from government said that Cabinet had noted the minister's plan and requested a more detailed assessment and an outline of solutions to address the country's energy crisis, without providing further detail. The president also reiterated his plan to accelerate renewable-energy projects, Olver said.

Ramaphosa set up the commission to advise him and to help formulate policies to cope with the effects of climate change. Still, among a swath of recommendations, the commission said the investment plan was woefully short on how much money would be spent on re-skilling coal miners and cushioning coal-dependent communities from the impact of a switch to green energy."Consultation has been undertaken late in the planning process, and social justice issues appear to be addressed as an afterthought rather than a central premise," the commission said, citing its stakeholder engagements.

 

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_Business Lol the jokes just keep on writing themselves.

_Business He's lying he will restart Eskom coal fired power stations. Renewables are useless like him.

_Business Omg. What a joke. Glass house style

_Business No Promise to big or small for our President of SA.

_Business Biden wants results 🤣🤣

_Business The whole net 0 garbage is some WEF climate change scam and only a clown leader, but this one is the chief clown so its no surprise

_Business Another empty ANC promise. 😏

_Business But what bout Ikonka and primus🤔

_Business Menemene this one

_Business This puppet is even more embarrassing than Zuma. At least Zuma made us laugh while robbing us blind.

_Business Eishhh....

_Business Bull ish.

_Business Wait.....South Africa has a president?

_Business Will surely meet it when he goes to higher stages of Loadshedding.

_Business WEF patsy We need a president that stands up against these globalist who want to bankrupt countries through these unsustainable policies.

_Business They can’t organize a piss up in a brewery.

_Business I pledge black is white... about as effective

_Business And how is this going to be achieved? Just lip service again to keep the world quiet

_Business Go to Lethabo Power Station and you will realise that it's possible

_Business Lol

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