Ramaphosa Faces Call to Explain Slower Coal Closure to Funders
- South Africa relies on coal more more than 80% of its power
- The country is in the midst of its worst ever power cuts
Cyril Ramaphosa
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President Cyril Ramaphosa will be asked to speak to his counterparts in countries offering South Africa $8.5 billion of climate finance to close coal-fired power plants to explain why the nation will depend on the dirtiest fuel for longer.
The National Energy Crisis Committee, set up by Ramaphosa to try and alleviate an unprecedented energy crisis, will make the request to the president, a government official said, asking not to be identified because the decision isn’t public. South Africa has already made informal approaches, Bloomberg reported earlier.