SA's emissions promise 'unrealistic'
A local environmental NGO believes South Africa's recent pledge to have greenhouse gas emissions under control by 2025, is too little too late.
The Environmental Affairs Department says the country will allow its emissions to plateau for about a decade after peaking - before beginning to cut them.
Groundwork's Bobby Peek says the country is already exceeding the limit of carbon gases and other greenhouse gas emissions.
He says our reliance on coal for electricity will make the emissions goal impossible to meet.
''The South African economy is fixated on coal, Eskom, Sasol, Colenso Power, and as a result of that we will never ever make that emission reduction by 2025.
''We will already have overshot that in the near future and already the emissions targets that we've set in place for ourselves now, we've already exceeded,'' he said.
(File photo: AFP)