South Africa Says Emissions Will Fall Even as It Delays Closing Coal Plants
- Country has delayed plant closures due to electricity crisis
- Presidency maintains that plan still in line with climate pact
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South Africa’s presidency, which is overseeing the deployment of $9.3 billion in climate finance, said it’s confident the country will meet its greenhouse gas emission reduction targets even as its keeps coal-fired plants open.
South Africa won the funding from some of the world’s richest nations in a deal announced in 2021 on condition the world’s 15th-biggest emitter of climate warming gases began to close down its coal-fired plants. The country that’s beset with an energy supply crisis is yet to close down a plant under the agreement or commit to any firm decommissioning dates.