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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures as he briefs the media on South Africa's G20 presidency for 2025 at the parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, December 3, 2024. REUTERS/Esa Alexander
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South Africa sets climate finance and debt relief as G20 presidency focus

South Africa, the first African nation to lead the G20, will focus on mobilizing finance for climate disaster-stricken countries.

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Electric vehicles in Africa: what’s needed to grow the sector

To make the most of the electric mobility revolution, sub-Saharan African countries need policies and incentives to localise production and invest in green...

A climate activist holds a placard as people call for climate justice resistance against oil and gas corporations and to end fossil fuels outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre during the Southern Africa Oil and Gas Conference in Cape Town, South Africa , September 13, 2023. REUTERS/Esa Alexander/File Photo
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South Africa’s revised carbon tax to be harsher but with more offsets, Treasury says

South Africa is one of the world's top 15 greenhouse gas emitters and the only country in Africa with a carbon tax.

FILE PHOTO: Vehicles drive past the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference posters, in Baku, Azerbaijan October 31, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Karimov/File Photo
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COP29 climate agenda clouded by trade tensions ahead of summit

China has put trade talks onto the proposed agenda for the COP29 summit, a U.N. document showed, raising the prospect that the issue...

FILE PHOTO: A municipal worker attempts to unclog a flooded road in Newlands during heavy rains in Cape Town, South Africa, July 9, 2024. REUTERS/Esa Alexander/File Photo
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South Africa concerned Trump election will impact climate talks

Trump's election and the collapse of Germany's coalition government this week have come right before COP29.

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A student takes part in a global protest against climate change in Mumbai, India, March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo
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BASIC bloc slams ‘leadership void’ on climate change, finance

Ministers from the bloc countries expressed concern that industrialised nations were "backtracking" on their climate pledges.

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