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Coal is of critical importance to the South African energy economy. It is the source of 93% of the country’s electricity, 70% of its primary energy and 30% of its petroleum liquid fuels.
Operating in a "carbon-constrained world" brought up issues of innovation and competitiveness that business in South Africa would need to recognise and decide how it would be involved.
In a recent piece on the state of the world economy and its apparent recovery, the chief economics commentator at London’s Financial Times, Martin Wolf, argued that, instead of patting themselves...