{"id":3283,"date":"2023-05-22T15:35:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2023-05-22T15:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T13:35:32","slug":"rich-states-grasping-south-africa-delay-the-closure-of-coal-fired-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/05\/22\/rich-states-grasping-south-africa-delay-the-closure-of-coal-fired-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich countries &#039;understanding&#039; South Africa delay coal plant closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span>Rich nations \u201cunderstand\u201d South Africa\u2019s immediate need to keep coal-fired power plants running longer to cope with power outages despite an $8.5 billion clean energy transition deal, a German government spokesman told Climate Home. <\/span><\/strong><span>However, they warned the South African government not to back down from a clear commitment to reducing long-term emissions. <\/span><span>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last week\u00a0<\/span><span>he said<\/span><span> parliament that the timetable for the transition away from coal \u201cneeds to be reconsidered\u201d as the country struggles with crippling daily power outages.\u00a0<\/span><span>The US, UK, EU, Germany and France contribute\u00a0<\/span><span>financial resources<\/span><span> on a groundbreaking plan known as the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JetP) to clean up South Africa&#039;s coal-dependent electricity system. (<em>Matteo Civillini)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich countries \u201cunderstand\u201d South Africa\u2019s immediate need to keep coal-fired power plants running longer to cope with power outages despite an $8.5 billion clean energy transition deal, a German government spokesman told Climate Home. But they warned the South African government not to back down from a clear commitment to long-term emissions reductions. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}