Sprinkled throughout the budget are dots – positive, encouraging dots – that show SA where government is headed in terms of environmental issues. It seems climate change challenges are among the top priorities for government, writes Bernard Mofokeng
In fact, if you take the time to read through the hundreds of pages of the budget and connect the dots, it seems climate change challenges are among the top priorities for government.
• Targeted social interventions, including re-skilling and financial support for workers in sunset industries, rather than providing support to affected companies. At first glance, it seems that the focus is purely on cars, and that South African car owners are going to be paying dearly for the privilege of owning them – and that is on top of paying for the e-tolls.
The budget identifies that, for many cities, strengthening the resilience of infrastructure and supporting low-carbon development of capital projects is a large-scale undertaking that requires strong partnerships and new sources of capital.In response, Treasury’s “Cities Support Programme” helps cities increase their capital investments in climate resilience and low- carbon development through targeted technical assistance to strengthen project design, packaging and preparation.
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