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"At 2 Dec 2019 Rating: Highly Insufficient"
"The South African government finally approved its Integrated
Resource Plan (IRP2019) in October 2019, confirming the trend change in
power sector planning indicated in the draft for comment from August
2018. The plan reduces the role of coal compared to previous planning
and increases the adoption of renewables and gas. Unlike earlier drafts,
the IRP2019 proposes extending the operational lifetime of South
Africa’s sole nuclear power plant by 20 years, up to 2044.
The
final plan marks a major shift in energy policy, which is remarkable
for a coal-dominated country like South Africa. It aims to decommission
over 35 GW (of 42 GW currently operating) of coal-fired power capacity
from state-owned coal and utility giant Eskom by 2050.
However, it would still see South Africa complete nearly 6 GW of
costly coal capacity currently under construction and commission another
1.5 GW of new coal capacity by 2030. IRP2019 includes a detailed
phase-out plan for coal-fired power plants, which, despite improvements
to earlier plans, still shows that substantial amounts of coal capacity
will run beyond the year 2050. For Paris-compatibility, coal must be
phased out globally, at the very latest by 2040.
The plan
also proposes a significant increase in renewables-based generation from
wind and solar as well as gas-based generation capacity by 2030 (an
additional 15.8 GW for wind, 7.4 GW for solar and 2.5 GW for gas by
2030), with no further new nuclear capacity being procured.
Implementing the IRP2019 will enable South Africa to achieve its 2030 NDC target. However, we rate South Africa’s NDC target as “Highly Insufficient” based
on the upper end of the NDC range. In this context, South Africa should
consider revising its target downward for 2030 to be resubmitted to the
UNFCCC as part of the Paris Agreement’s ambition raising cycle of 2020.
To
be in line with the Paris Agreement goals, South Africa would need to
adopt more ambitious actions by 2050 beyond the IRP2019, such as even
further increasing renewable energy capacity by 2030 and beyond, fully
phasing out coal-fired power generation by latest 2040, and
substantially limiting natural gas use.
Although South Africa is one of the few
countries that has put forward absolute emissions targets in their NDC,
we still rate this target “Highly Insufficient”. ..........................
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...and in Australia: "While the federal government continues to repeatedly state that
Australia is on track to meet its 2030 target “in a canter”, the Climate
Action Tracker is not aware of any scientific basis, published by any
analyst or government agency, that would support this. The OECD has
warned the Australian Government that it will not achieve its target
without intensified mitigation efforts. It describes current climate
policy as a “piecemeal approach”." Climate Action Tracker
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