I was invited to make a presentation today in the South African parliament at the public hearings on South Africa’s response to climate change and its so-called “intended nationally determined contribution” for submission at the COP 21 meetings in Paris at the end of the year. So strange seeing the old Apartheid Assembly filled mainly with black people, and all the talk was about how global challenges were affecting South Africa’s very particular challenges. What a far cry from must have been discussed here for decades by white people, mainly men, protecting their own interests. Imagine if they were there today – how little they would have understood!
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mmm….it’s all in the numbers, Mark. If we are to have a 50-50 chance of staying below 1.5 RSA carbon budget is only 10-12Gt until 2050. RSA numbers are on a pathway for closer to a 4 degree world. Out chief negotiator and gate keeper in the negotiations is protecting elite interests….RSA negotiating position has always done this as they have already used up More than their fairshares of the African carbon budget. The public hearings are just ticking the boxes….
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I love the presentation Prof. !!