Local governments are crucial to addressing climate change. Top 3 ways to succeed:
1⃣ build strong coalitions for local #climateplanning
2⃣ finance community-led climate change priorities
3⃣ involve #privatesector as ally in local vision
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#Regions and #Cities have proven strategies for advancing climate collaborations.
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We're still psyched about the State of Energy in South African Cities 2020 report launch that went without a hiss with much deliberations and ideas exchanged & knowledge shared!
Read the Full Report here:
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South Africa’s cities are making “good progress” in the low carbon transition, says new @SEA_UrbanEnergy report. Cities account for 40% of SA’s total energy consumption. Energy governance, the report says, is in crisis with vested interests capturing the policy space
Twenty years ago, the role of South Africa’s cities in the sustainable energy transition and the scale of their energy consumption was unknown. Today, they’re at the forefront of changing the country’s energy demands and carbon emissions profiles. bit.ly/2VtceUR
“Cities are energy intensive nodes - the dominating in fuel consumption including liquid fuels and electricity from a user perspective, the transport sector emerges as the largest energy user in city” - Yachika Reddy
#soeincities2020#democratizationofenergy#SEA20yranniversary
#YachikaReddy- on Report key findings:
“The 20 cities featured account for 38% of the national energy consumption,50% of the national electricity consumption,54% liquid fuels,close 1/3 of national carbon emmissions and produce approximately 70% of the country’s economic wealth”
Sifts in energy governance have been seen as many cities developed energy and climate action plans, the challenge still remains in actioning plans - shifting also from top-down planning to a flat approach that includes everyone/every stakeholder- YachikaReddy
#soeincities2020
Mobility has become a central focus on energy demand in cities, as the fastest growing source of emmissions with road transport accounting for 90% within the sector, EVs may be a means to mitigate the current spiking consumption pattern within the transport sector
Mr Holeni #Miyelaniholeni touches on
“Cities becoming more powerful than provinces/national gov due to their growing numbers and revenue generation capabilities, Policies and consensus needed to ensure
key actions taken towards lowering cities carbon footprint”
#soeincities2020
Mr Xolile George, -
“Out of this crisis, emerges an opportunity of us to seize the moment and drive a much more transformative agenda, not only to address the shocks, but contradictions in society,- Poverty, unemployment and inequality, from an energy perspective”