Rich countries have an obligation to pay for SA's green hydrogen development

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Rich countries have an obligation to pay for SA's green hydrogen development

Rich nations have an obligation to fund South Africa’s development of green hydrogen as part of a global effort to decarbonise, according to the presidency’s infrastructure chief.

The most industrialised nation on the continent that depends on coal to generate 80% of its electricity has plans to attract as much as $250 billion into green hydrogen, an emerging technology used to split water using renewable energy.

[Bloomberg]
 
Rich countries have an obligation to pay for SA's green hydrogen development

Rich nations have an obligation to fund South Africa’s development of green hydrogen as part of a global effort to decarbonise, according to the presidency’s infrastructure thief.

The most industrialised nation on the continent that depends on coal to generate 80% of its electricity has plans to attract as much as $250 billion into green hydrogen, an emerging technology used to split water using renewable energy.

[Bloomberg]
Small typo.
 
The developed world has a moral and ethical responsibility to help fund the adoption of green hydrogen,” Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, head of the presidency’s infrastructure office, said on Thursday at a conference in the southeastern port city of Durban.

South Africa’s priority is to commercialise the export of green hydrogen by using increasingly cleaner feedstock to produce it, he said.
The region’s platinum deposits also leave it well-placed to benefit from the use of the metal in fuel cells.
So they want to commercialise it for export but it is up to the developed country to fund the adoption of it :unsure:.
 
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I'm happy for Rich Nations to have this obligation to fund this green hydrogen development, so long as we also hand over the ability to hold all the corrupt fsckers to account legally within the remit of those Rich Nations legal frameworks.
 
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I'm happy for Rich Nations to have this obligation to fund this green hydrogen development, so long as we also hand over the ability to hold all the corrupt fsckers to account legally within the remit of those Rich Nations legal frameworks.

They shouldn’t fund it, then the money disappears.

They should just come out and do it.
 
Hey if the rich countries want us to switch to green energy I have no problem with them funding it. If it ends loadshedding there's no downsides at all.
 
/sigh

he could have said the same thing without sounding like a god damn entitled beggar, he's not entirely wrong in principle, just entirely wrong in approach

here Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, I'll give you this one free of charge:
If developed countries want to reduce carbon emissions in South Africa they can pay for it, failing that we will plot our own course in a way that makes most economical sense for our people
 
One side of the argument is that rich nations in the west and heck, even China have built their economies on cheap energy aka coal.

The argument is that the 3rd world hasn't caught up yet to other countries and need cheap energy to do so, but you also have the west saying "EVERYONE MUST GO GREEN"

Corruption and other 3rd world shenanigans aside, if the west want to push this agenda to developing nations, you should help fund it.

Not that it makes a difference considering China is building coal plants at a staggering rate and make most of the emissions
 
BEE Black labour

In SA you need % Black Ownership for proper level.
That is predominantly why BEE did jack for the man on the street.

I think you may need to be more specific.... its not % Black Ownership... its % connected individual ownership.
 
Rich countries have an obligation to pay for SA's green hydrogen development

Rich nations have an obligation to fund South Africa’s development of green hydrogen as part of a global effort to decarbonise, according to the presidency’s infrastructure chief.

The most industrialised nation on the continent that depends on coal to generate 80% of its electricity has plans to attract as much as $250 billion into green hydrogen, an emerging technology used to split water using renewable energy.

[Bloomberg]
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They shouldn’t fund it, then the money disappears.

They should just come out and do it.
This.

The West needs to learn that SA's government can't be trusted to handle money. Do not give the money to our government to do it. Do it yourselves through NGOs or something.
 
One side of the argument is that rich nations in the west and heck, even China have built their economies on cheap energy aka coal.

The argument is that the 3rd world hasn't caught up yet to other countries and need cheap energy to do so, but you also have the west saying "EVERYONE MUST GO GREEN"

Corruption and other 3rd world shenanigans aside, if the west want to push this agenda to developing nations, you should help fund it.

Not that it makes a difference considering China is building coal plants at a staggering rate and make most of the emissions
Which is a fair argument, although there are more technological options now than back when the first industrial revolutions took place - whoever developed first was always going to go through the easiest/dirtiest phases to get to where we are now. The problem with our situation is given how Kusile and Medupi are performing we seem to be turning burning our own coal into an increasingly expensive and unreliable option... (not to mention our world-leading sulphur dioxide emissions).

It seems that 'green funding' is coming our way though, let's see if the opportunity is seized or if too much is lost to '''eating''' or opposed by vested interests.
 
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