LETTER: We can’t wait for P4C to fight fossil-fuel dependence
Studies of the composition of economic recovery packages responding to Covid-19 show SA further entrenching our fossil-fuel dependence
Finally, a clear and welcome call from one of your leading columnists: “A 2050 net zero-carbon target for the country needs to be put in place before the middle of 2021” writes Peter Attard Montalto ("Time for state to get into gear on energy policy", December 6). A group of nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) — the Energy Governance SA network — recently made the very same point in an open letter to the president.
We can’t wait for the establishment of the long-promised Presidential Climate Change Co-ordinating Commission (P4C) to be set up, to then deliberate on policies and pathways before SA decides to get with the programme — as clearly laid out by the secretary-general of the UN again last week. The task of the P4C must be to elaborate how to make the transition as just as possible...
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