New EU rules are unjust and punitive to South African citrus industry
The new EU regulations are a major blow to South Africa’s citrus industry as they will severely disrupt exports.
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The new EU regulations are a major blow to South Africa’s citrus industry as they will severely disrupt exports.
LONDON — While the COVID-19 crisis brought much suffering and many socioeconomic burdens, it has also shown how targeted cooperation between the state and business can speed innovation. Addressing the climate crisis calls for similarly creative collaboration.In both cases, accelerating innovation and experimenting with local solutions is necessary but not sufficient.
The renewable energy transition “is the only true path to energy security”, United Nations secretary-general António Guterres has asserted, adding that the current energy crisis, precipitated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, underlined the need to accelerate rather than slow the transition. In a recorded address to the 2022 edition of the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue (BETD), Guterres warned that the world was not on track to achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by mid-century, or limiting the global temperature rise to 1.5°C.