Mitigation: South Africa’s greenhouse gas mitigation potential analysis
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-28T11:37:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-28T11:37:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A greenhouse gas mitigation potential analysis has been conducted for South Africa. The analysis has identified and analysed mitigation options in key economic sectors. In the process, an updated projection of national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions into the future has been developed, along with marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) for key sectors and subsectors. A socio-economic and environmental assessment of the identified mitigation options has also been conducted, leading to the development of national abatement pathways and an assessment of the wider macroeconomic impacts of implementing a broad set of mitigation options. Projections of economic growth are aligned to targeted levels of future economic growth. The targeted level of future economic growth is based on the moderate growth rate defined by National Treasury. The moderate growth scenario forecasts real growth in gross domestic product (GDP growth) of 4.2% per annum over the medium-term (defined in the draft Integrated Energy Plan as 2015–2020) and 4.3% per annum over the long-term (2021–2050). A detailed inter-industry economic modelling framework, the Inter-industry Forecasting Model (INFORUM), was used as the basis for projecting economic growth in all sectors of the South African economy. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.dffe.gov.za/sites/default/files/docs/mitigationreport.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://lhg.cput.ac.za//handle/123456789/216 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Department of Environmental Affairs | |
| dc.subject | Greenhouse gas mitigation | |
| dc.subject | Climate change mitigation | |
| dc.subject | Climatic changes | |
| dc.title | Mitigation: South Africa’s greenhouse gas mitigation potential analysis | |
| dc.type | Technical Report |