The financial crisis facing Eskom does not absolve SA of its responsibility to change from coal to clean energy, the UN says.
During a media briefing ahead of the organisation’s climate-change summit in New York in September, Rachel Kyte, special representative for UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres, said: “The problems Eskom faces are multiple and come from many points in its history, but it doesn’t mean SA doesn’t still need to transition away from coal. Coal is not part of the future.”..
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