South Africa’s carbon-intensive export model faces rising risks in a global economy that is increasingly shaped by climate policy, clean energy industrial strategies and cross-border carbon pricing.
This is according to a new report released by Net Zero Tracker, which noted that, as countries ratchet up decarbonisation to meet their Paris Agreement climate commitments, the clean energy transition is redrawing the global trade map.
“South Africa’s formal net zero target for 2050 sits uneasily alongside short-term energy decisions that prioritise fossil fuel expansion and delay coal phase-out,” the analysis…
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