{"id":3897,"date":"2019-07-19T09:35:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T09:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:25","slug":"south-africas-carbon-tax-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/07\/19\/south-africas-carbon-tax-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s Carbon Tax Matters \u2013 For The Economy And Tackling Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The carbon tax is likely to be an effective way of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, which lead to climate change and have negative consequences for human life. But the carbon tax that\u2019s been <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2263\/70144\">introduced<\/a> in South Africa could cost jobs unless people acquire skills that can be used in sectors that are not carbon-intensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the fact that there will be winners and losers, overall,\nthe tax should benefit South Africans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greenhouse gas emissions mainly from human activities such as\ncarbon dioxide trap heat in the atmosphere, resulting in increased global\ntemperatures and, in turn, unpredictable weather patterns. These changes \u2013\nsimply referred to as climate change \u2013 have led to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-droughts-will-affect-south-africas-broader-economy-111378\">devastating outcomes such as\nsevere drought, heatwaves, flooding and wildfires<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate change also affects agriculture, water resources, human\nhealth, infrastructure, ecosystems and energy. In 2015 United Nations member\ncountries agreed in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unfccc.int\/about-us\/about-the-secretariat\">the Paris Agreement<\/a>&nbsp;to move faster towards\na low-carbon future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As one of the first measures to combat climate change, South\nAfrica recently&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2263\/70144\">introduced a carbon tax<\/a>. It\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openknowledge.worldbank.org\/handle\/10986\/31755\">the only African country and\none of only 57<\/a>&nbsp;globally\nto have done so. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/south-africas-carbon-tax-matters-for-the-economy-and-tackling-climate-change-120116\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carbon tax is likely to be an effective way of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, which lead to climate change and have negative consequences for human life. But the carbon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}