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Harald Winkler
Winkler is Associate Professor at the Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town and can be contacted at Harald.Winkler@uct.ac.za. He writes in his personal capacity.
 
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COP 17 and what is to be done about mitigation

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The climate negotiations in Durban led to agreement on four broad things. The negotiators agreed to continue under the Kyoto Protocol for a few more years. At the same time, a new agreement will be negotiated by 2015, taking effect from 2020 –...
By: Harald Winkler
20 Jan 12
 
 
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Will the IRP meet SA’s carbon emission target?

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The final report on the Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) takes carbon into account in a serious way for the first time in a South African electricity plan. But it is still impossible to say that the electricity plan approved by Cabinet provides an...
By: Harald Winkler
22 Apr 11
 
 
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What might rise from the ashes of Copenhagen?

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What the world needed from Copenhagen was a legal treaty on climate. All it got was a political deal among some world leaders. In the last days in Copenhagen, those leaders in the small ‘commitment circle’ agreed to put forward their numbers...
By: Harald Winkler
26 Feb 10
 
 
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Going for broke in Copenhagen

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The future of the climate change regime is to be decided in Copenhagen. It is not looking pretty. The US is not ready to put a firm number to the emission cuts it knows it must do. The European Union has proposed a step-up in finance, but still...
By: Harald Winkler
20 Nov 09
 
 
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Climate policy by trade war?

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Will climate policy in future be conducted through trade measures? A worrying scenario is that the current approach – negotiating climate change multilaterally, through the United Nations (UN) – could be replaced by domestic action and border...
By: Harald Winkler
23 Oct 09
 
 
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Reflections on Green Paper on national strategic planning

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National strategic planning holds huge promise. It could unite many parts of South Africa in moving towards a common national vision of development. Much depends on how it will be implemented. But, in this case, the plan is coming straight from...
By: Harald Winkler
18 Sep 09
 
 
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A third of China’s emissions are exported

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Climate negotiations take place between countries. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are calculated by taking into account the GHGs emitted within a country’s borders. Yet, for some countries, substantial shares of their emissions are attributable to the...
By: Harald Winkler
21 Aug 09
 
 
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Let’s support solar industry

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The book of Joel counsels us: “Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears – let the weak say, ‘I am strong’”. If South Africa is to ensure that it has a strong energy economy, it may need a similar...
By: Harald Winkler
17 Jul 09
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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