Worker Concerns Slow South Africa’s $8.5 Billion Green Pact (1)

The implementation of South Africa’s landmark $8.5 billion climate finance pact with some of the world’s richest nations has been delayed by how to incorporate recommendations that it do more to spell out how coal-dependent workers and communities will be shielded from the impact of a green transition.

The South African government’s Just Energy Transition Implementation Partnership now aims to produce a plan on how it will spend the money to shift the country away from using coal by the end of August, according to Rudi Dicks, head of the project management office in the Presidency.

While the government ...