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Carbon Trading: answer to SA’s energy crisis?

July 22, 2013 Leave a Comment

Balancing the climate change issue with sustainable energy and the threat of carbon shortage is no easy task for South Africa, but carbon trading might just help. South Africa relies very heavily on coal for electricity generation and for powering the cement-and-steel-manufacturing industries. Although the entire South African region is host to some of the world’s largest … [Read more...]

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