Dion George (Supplied/ DA)
South Africa’s new environment minister said
his primary focus will be on getting the country to spend the billions of
dollars of climate finance that have been made available to it, accelerating
the development of renewable energy facilities.
Dion George said more needs to be done to
implement the $9.3 billion Just Energy Transition Partnership with some of the
world’s richest nations. The member of the country’s second-biggest political
party who was appointed to the post on Sunday as part of the country’s first
coalition government since the 1990s, also wants to boost connecting renewable
energy plants to the national grid.
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