MINERALS COUNCIL SOUTH AFRICA SUPPORTS THE PARIS AGREEMENT AMBITION OF NET ZERO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS BY 2050, AND A PEOPLE-CENTRED AND PRAGMATIC JUST ENERGY TRANSITION

ICMM statement

The Minerals Council supports the Paris Climate Change Agreement ambition of zero net carbon emissions by 2050.

At the same time, the Minerals Council fully supports the need for a people-centred and pragmatic just energy transition tailored at a country level to meet South Africa’s development, economic and energy security ambitions as outlined in the country’s latest Nationally Determined Contribution Report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Read the Minerals Council media release.

As a member of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) members have agreed a climate change statement to reduce to net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in line with the Paris Agreement. Read the ICMM member statement, and watch the commitments video.