{"id":527557,"date":"2022-10-06T12:13:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T06:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527557"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:13:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T06:43:28","slug":"s-africa-seeks-cabinet-approval-for-8-5-billion-climate-plan-to-curb-coal-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/s-africa-seeks-cabinet-approval-for-8-5-billion-climate-plan-to-curb-coal-use\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Africa seeks cabinet approval for $8.5 billion climate plan to curb coal use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s government will seek cabinet approval for an $8.5 billion plan to transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity in order to secure funding from some of the world\u2019s richest nation.<\/p>\n<p>A second draft of the investment plan has been completed and is being shared with \u201ckey stakeholders\u201d ahead of its submission to cabinet, said Vincent Magwenya, a spokesman for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>The development marks a significant step toward completing the pact with the funding partners &#8212; the UK, US, Germany, France and the European Union &#8212; which was first announced at the COP26 international climate summit in Glasgow last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s government will seek cabinet approval for an $8.5 billion plan to transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity in order to secure funding from some of the world\u2019s richest nation. A second draft of the investment plan has been completed and is being shared with \u201ckey stakeholders\u201d ahead of its submission to cabinet, said Vincent Magwenya, a spokesman for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. The development marks a significant step toward completing the pact with the funding partners &#8212; the UK, US, Germany, France and the European Union &#8212; which was first announced at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}