Greentech Lead Africa: Angola is planning to invest in
about 130 solar projects to help power schools and health centers, Agencia
Angola Press reported today, citing Energy Minister Joao Baptista Borges.
Suppliers of solar power equipment may benefit from tax
incentives, Baptista Borges said, according to the Luanda-based news agency.
South Africa plans to start its own price on carbon next year
South Africa is planning to introduce its own price on
carbon next year.
According to the Treasury, South Africa plans to
introduce a carbon tax on annual emissions for all the industrial sectors
responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, including electricity, petroleum,
iron, steel and aluminium to reduce greenhouse gases.
South Africa was the host of last year’s climate talks at
Durban that yielded the first international agreement to put a price on
greenhouse gases to be worked out by 2015 and operational by 2020.
With around 500-million tons of greenhouse gases emitted
yearly, the country ranks third in the world on a total emissions per capita
basis. It is one of the BASIC nations (Brazil, South Africa, India and China)
responsible for most new greenhouse gas pollution.