Government must resist fossil fuel lobbying and retain the carbon tax

Government must resist fossil fuel lobbying and retain the carbon tax

Multiple sources have indicated that Minister of Energy and Electricity, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, is developing a proposal to suspend the country’s carbon tax, and that the National Treasury has been asked to motivate why the tax should be retained. Suspending the carbon tax would be a short-sighted and ill-informed move. A group of civil society organisations, academics and experts has written to the Presidency asking for a meeting to discuss the…