Author: aarti

S.A. is developing plans to enable a just move to net zero. Our electricity sector, which contributes 41% of our greenhouse-gas emissions, will be the first phase. We will also pursue green industrialisation opportunities such as electric vehicles and fuel cell production that stimulate job creation and economic growth.

Bold and ambitious actions are required from all countries to confront climate change and South Africa has consistently argued that developed economies must support a just transition in developing economies.

Canada’s Prime Minister promised at the G20 Summit to donate at least 200 million COVID vaccine doses by the end of 2022, of which 10 million doses will be delivered “quickly” to developing countries.

The automotive sector has remained one of SA’s most investment-intensive industrial sectors with 7 light-vehicle producers investing a record R9.2 billion in 2020, awhile the component sector attracted R2.4 billion during the same period.

The Department of Science and Innovation unveiled a high-tech, state-of-the-art science centre. The construction and associated civil works of the science centre were jointly funded by the DSI and the Eastern Cape Department of Education.

Ms. Molopyane was announced as part of the National Geographic Society’s 2021 Emerging Explorer cohort recently.