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Carbon intensity of our economy has become unsustainable - Ramaphosa
By: Terence Creamer 15th July 2024 The carbon intensity of our economy has become unsustainable, President Cyril Ramaphosa writes in his latest weekly newsletter, published ahead of... →
Defusing CBAM
By: Terence Creamer 21st June 2024 South Africa is strenuously opposing the European Union’s (EU’s) Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) that, under its evolving design and... →
Russia to provide more military aid, instructors to Burkina Faso
By: Reuters 5th June 2024 Russia will send additional military supplies and instructors to Burkina Faso to help the west African country boost its defence capabilities and... →
Green hydrogen must be allowed to decarbonise optimally, Junior Indaba hears 
By: Martin Creamer 23rd May 2024 Green hydrogen must be made cheap enough to decarbonise optimally at a time when the delay in emission reduction needs to be reversed if the world... →
Huge manganese value-add opportunity reiterated at Junior Indaba
By: Martin Creamer 22nd May 2024 The huge opportunity that South Africa has to add value to its rich endowment of manganese through local processing was reiterated during the... →
Can South Africa turn around 30 years of real economy underperformance? 
By: Terence Creamer 26th April 2024 In this essay, Terence Creamer reflects on the factors that have shaped South Africa’s real-economy sectors of manufacturing, mining and... →
Mavuso urges public-private collaboration to mitigate looming natural gas cliff
By: Marleny Arnoldi 4th March 2024 Once again policy inaction and government’s inability to commit to large-scale investment will lead to a new blow to energy availability in the... →
Crunch time
By: Terence Creamer 23rd February 2024 The consequences of policy failure in electricity are so obvious there is no need to ventilate them again. Not so for gas, however, given that they... →
