Monday, April 23, 2018
The aim of making polluters pay for the carbon they pump into the
atmosphere is to help South Africa, the world’s 12th highest emitter
of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, transition to a low-carbon economy.
“We have one of the most carbon intensive economies in the world,”
Anton Cartwright, a researcher on the green economy at the University
of Cape Town’s African Centre for Cities, told IPS.
Coal-burning power plants provide close to ninety percent of South
Africa’s electricity, making the economy highly carbon intensive.
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