JET + ESG = Opportunity, Not Obligation
“The goal is not to outsource carbon to the developing world. It's to solve a global crisis, together.” Mila Vicquery, GM Energy Partners Sustainability, reminds us that South Africa's energy transition isn’t about morality or politics—it’s about common-sense commercial strategy:
- Cleaner energy isn’t just greener—it’s often cheaper.
- Embedded generation and PPAs give businesses real control.
- Carbon taxes and global pressure are already here.
The Just Energy Transition (#JET) is a chance to build smarter, stronger, and more future-proof operations—and the private sector must lead the way.
The needle won’t move unless we move it.
Listen to an excerpt from Mila's recent CapeTalk interview
Full interview: https://lnkd.in/dRWw8mqW#EnergyTransition#ESGLeadership#ClimateAction#SouthAfrica#Trump
This sounds like a like a model thing. Do you read any morality into this action? Yeah, I, I wouldn't concentrate so much about, you know, how do we morally respond to it? I would, I would say from South African perspective, all of these political swift shifts and swaying of the government to one or the other direction should not necessarily be the reason for, for our businesses and and South African country to to actually have their own pragmatic and commercially LED pledges related to the climate action. So if we think about EG and and. Exercise of getting the points or or getting ticking the boxes this whole journey with with the America's withdrawal can can only concentrate the businesses to walk away from that surface level sustainability and make the real commitment. So that's kind of what we call it moving of the needle, you know, real sustainability and operational and financially driven goals to to actually get the reduction of energy, the fossil fuel reduction, etcetera.
