The following letter was written and submitted by Project 90 by 2030 to President Cyril Ramaphosa, with the endorsement of the Energy Governance South Africa (EGSA) members on the 19 February 2019 on ESKOM Restructuring and the lack of details. Dear President Cyril Ramaphosa, We write to you as the Energy Governance South Africa (EGSA) [...]
A group of civil society organisations has issued a challenge for Government to set itself decisive climate change objectives. The challenge was delivered during a media briefing held in Cape Town on 30 Jan, hosted by Project 90 by 2030 “Climate change poses an immediate and far reaching threat to people and communities worldwide and [...]
In September 2018, Eskom submitted their revenue application for FY2019/20 - 2021/22 to the National Energy Regulator South Africa (NERSA). NERSA published a call for submissions soon thereafter. Project 90 by 2030 puts forward the following submission for NERSA’s attention. While this submission will look into a number of issues we picked up in Eskom’s [...]
South Africa is experiencing significant effects of climate change particularly as a result of increased temperatures and water variability. The observed rate of warming has been 2 °C per century or even higher – more than twice the global rate of temperature increase for the western parts and the northeast (DEA 2017a, 72). There is [...]
JUST ENERGY TRANSITION: Community Ownership, Jobs and the Future of Renewable Energy Systems To gather input from a number of stakeholders on this topic, COSATU, NALEDI and Project 90 by 2030 with the support of Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, hosted a discussion event in Johannesburg on 7th August 2018. The discussion topic was informed by presentations on [...]
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAPE TOWN, Western Cape, Wednesday 9 January, 2019 NERSA PUBLIC HEARINGS TO BE HELD ON REQUESTED ESKOM TARIFF HIKES ESKOM is requesting an additional 15% tariff increase for the next three financial years, amounting to a 45% price hike for consumers. If a household currently spends R500/month on electricity, the [...]
Removing fossil fuel subsidies is an important part of emission-reduction strategies, as many fossil fuel enterprises will cease to be profitable without subsidy, and could then give way to lower carbon alternatives being taken up. Governments around the world spend US$400-600 billion a year to keep domestic prices for coal, oil and as products [...]
Parallel to the large main events of the COP24 negotiations, there are a wide variety of side events. One I attended was a small discussion group at the Climate Hub around the EMOTIONS that climate change induces... How do those people active in the climate change space maintain hope when it sometimes seems so hopeless? [...]
Just Transition Event - Building Local Living Economies 'Just Transition' is a framework for a fair and sustainable shift to a sustainable economy through the implementation of real solutions to climate change that chart a path towards more democratic, ecologically rooted economies. The workshop that I attended at COP24 on 9 December 2018, aimed to [...]
On the 10th December I attended an event about how social inclusion measures, and investment decisions, assist in a just and sustainable transition. There was a panel of high profile, influential speakers including Lord Nicholas Stern (who authored the highly cited review on the Economics of Climate Change) and Nick Robins from the London School [...]
