Conference aims to foster low carbon economy

With South Africa’s signing of the Paris Agreement at the United Nations twenty-first Conference of the Parties in 2015 requiring it to have met certain greenhouse-gas emission reduction targets from a mitigation and an adaptation point of view by 2020, this year’s Industrial Efficiency Conference will aim to help industry transition to a low carbon economy. Hosted by the National Cleaner Production Centre of South Africa (NCPC-SA) – the resource efficiency programme of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) – NCPC-SA marketing and communication manager Julie Wells notes that, with the DTI’s strong environmental focus for the next two years, carbon reduction will be “on everyone’s lips” because of the targets to which government has committed.