Message from the Eskom Chairman – Valli Moosa
Climate change is the biggest environmental problem facing the world. Eskom has pro-actively finalised and implemented a climate change strategy, notwithstanding the lack of a national target in terms of climate change.
Its intention is to reduce its relative CO2 footprint until 2025 and thereafter continually reduce absolute emissions in support of national and global targets. Eskom’s commitments to climate change will not be done in isolation, but in conjunction with others – for example collaboration with the South African government’s long-term mitigation scenario process for identifying scenarios for mitigation of climate change for South Africa and the global policy work of bodies such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the World Economic Forum (WEF). We also need to bear in mind that we will have to live with the negative impacts of climate change no matter what action is taken to reduce emissions. As such adaptation to these impacts is an important element in our project design and investment decision making.
Government is preparing legislation around energy efficiency relating to compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), and enabling power rationing. I don’t think there is another place in the world where an energy efficiency campaign is being implemented at the pace at which it is happening in South Africa today. |
