South Africa Minister of Electricity Kogosientsho Ramakgopa has been handed the chairmanship for the Green Africa Hydrogen Alliance at the first Africa climate conference hosted in Nairobi, Kenya.
Green Hydrogen is produced by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen; all major energy transition pathways identify green hydrogen as the most credible solution available for decarbonisation.
Africa Green Energy Alliance
Africa’s Green Energy Alliance was soft-launched at COP 26 by six African countries, including South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Morroco, Namibia, and Mauritania.
The goal is to reduce African countries’s carbon footprint to zero by 2050. African countries contribute 4 % to global carbon emissions at 1.4 billion tonnes.
More than half of the continent’s emissions are produced by just three countries.
South Africa is the biggest polluter in the continent at 435.9 million tonnes, followed by one of Africa’s oldest civilised nations, Egypt at 249.6 million tonnes, and Algeria at 176.2 million tonnes.
Mzansi assumes the role of chair for AGHA at a time when the nation just adopted a policy framework for the Just Energy Transition that seeks to change the country’s heavy reliance on coal to include more renewable energy.
