A greenhouse gas emissions inventory for South Africa: A comparative analysis

Seymore, Reyno; Inglesi‐Lotz, Roula; Blignaut, James Nelson

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2014.03.028

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“…To determine the implications of carbon tax on the food and other sectors, the economic data from 2011 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and the Supply-Use Tables (SUT) published by Statistics South Africa were entrenched with emission data from DAE (2017); and Seymore et al (2014).…”

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Greening the South Africa’s Economy Could Benefit the Food Sector: Evidence from a Carbon Tax Policy Assessment

Ntombela

Bohlmann

Kalaba

2019

Environ Resource Econ

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South Africa has a competitive and viable food production sector which enables the country to be a consistent net exporter of agricultural products. Lately, the business and labour organisations have raised concerns that the government's intention to implement the carbon tax policy will affect the food supply, subsequently exacerbating the unemployment and food insecurity in the country. Carbon tax is one of the policy tools to be implemented in order to reduce the growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions thus helping the government meets its Paris Agreement commitments. South Africa's National Treasury released a second draft of the carbon tax bill in 2017, which takes into account the concerns raised by different organisations. In this paper, we evaluate the potential impact of the carbon tax policy on the food sector using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. The results show that the carbon tax is an effective policy tool to mitigate emissions, as they decline by 33 percent relative to the baseline by 2035. This also leads to a welfare loss of R98.326 billion as the country transform into a green economy. While sectors such as transport, steel and coal-generated electricity experiences significant output decline, the food sector shows improvements in terms of production and employment when the carbon tax is implemented. The positive effects on the food sector suggests that the policy makers have designed a plausible environmental protection policy that cushion the food supply against any expected negative effects.

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Greening the South Africa’s Economy Could Benefit the Food Sector: Evidence from a Carbon Tax Policy Assessment

Ntombela

Bohlmann

Kalaba

2019

Environ Resource Econ

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“…In South Africa, for example, coal combustion is currently the most reliable source of energy, and yet it contributes significantly toward GHG emissions (Seymore et al, 2014;Cullis et al, 2018). The difference in the emissions from these two electricity-generating technologies is due to the higher output of GHGs from coal combustion as compared to OCGT and the predominance of coal combustion for electricity production.…”

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A Water-Centric Approach in the Assessment and Governance of the Water-Energy-Climate Change Nexus in South Africa

Mathetsa

Simatele

Rampedi

2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Water and energy interdependency, in the context of climate change, threatens security of these resources. Anecdotal evidence suggests that risks associated with the “Water-Energy-Climate Change” (WECC) nexus will affect all subsectors of the economy. Yet the WECC nexus has not received commensurate attention in research and policy. Some countries have begun identifying avenues to understand and forestall WECC impacts, but less so in developing countries. This has compromised the adaptive capacity and resilience of developing countries' economies to WECC impacts. This paper analyses existing literature, historical and contemporary secondary data on climate change, water and energy interdependency in South Africa. It outlines the interlinkages and implications of these three components on each other, particularly within the discourse of sustainable water resource management. The paper recommends water-centric approaches to improve evidence-based institutional and policy frameworks to address the myriad challenges of this nexus in a holistic and integrated manner.

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“…Unfortunately, 35% to 60% of South Africa's wetlands is lost or severely degraded [42]. Also, there are prevalently high rates of atmospheric emissions from both household and industrial origins [43].…”

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Biodiversity and Economy but Not Social Factors Predict Human Population Dynamics in South Africa

Phogole

Yessoufou

2022

Sustainability

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The ongoing exponential growth of human population poses a risk to sustainable development goals (SDGs). Unless we understand the drivers of this growth and inform policy development accordingly, SDGs would remain a dream. One of the old theories of population growth known as the Malthusian theory predicts that resource availability drives population growth until a certain time when population growth outrun resource availability, leading to all sort of crises summarized as Malthusian crisis. Although the link between economic growth and population has been widely investigated while testing the theory, little is known about environmental and social factors potentially driving population growth. Here, because of various crises of our time recalling the Malthusian crisis, we revisited the theory by fitting structural equation models to environmental, social and economic data collected over 30-year period in South Africa. None of the social variables tested predicts population growth. Instead, we found that biodiversity (species protection index) correlates positively with population growth. Biodiversity provides various resources through ecosystem goods and services to human, thus supporting population growth as predicted in the Malthusian theory. However, we also found that this population growth may lead to conservation conflict as we found that biodiversity habitat (wetland area) correlates negatively with population growth, thus raising the compromising effect of population growth on life on earth. What’s more, we found a significant link between economic growth measured as GDP and population growth, further supporting the Malthusian prediction. Overall, our study re-affirms the value of biodiversity to human and suggests that the Malthusian theory should continuously be tested with predictors other than economic.

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A greenhouse gas emissions inventory for South Africa: A comparative analysis

Abstract: An energy-based greenhouse gas (GHG)

Cited by 17 publications

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Greening the South Africa’s Economy Could Benefit the Food Sector: Evidence from a Carbon Tax Policy Assessment

Greening the South Africa’s Economy Could Benefit the Food Sector: Evidence from a Carbon Tax Policy Assessment

A Water-Centric Approach in the Assessment and Governance of the Water-Energy-Climate Change Nexus in South Africa

Biodiversity and Economy but Not Social Factors Predict Human Population Dynamics in South Africa

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