If South Africa is to seek a major transition from an energy-intensive to a low-carbon economy, it needs to completely replace fossil fuels by 2050 - so why does its government remain committed to new coal and nuclear power plants?
The South African Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus Van Schalkwyk recently described his government's new plan to mitigate climate change as “progressive, ambitious and far-reaching”.
The approach speaks of a scenario in which action taken now will see greenhouse gas emissions peaking by 2020-25, then reaching a plateau for a decade
