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Article: Africa's 'dirty man' starts clean-up act: South Africa, called the 'dirty man' of Africa because of its use of pollution-emitting coal-based energy is set to clean up its act. There is state support on offer for alternative, renewable sources of cheap power and, as Neil Ford reports, they are plenty of takers.(ENVIRONMENT)
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- African Business
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- November 1, 2005
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Global efforts to cut emissions of green-house gases generally focus on the industrialised world and the large, rapidly growing economies of Asia. The debate centres on whether there is any point in Western Europe and North America cutting their emissions while car ownership rockets and new coal-fired power plants are developed in India and China.
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Yet some parts of Africa are also taking steps to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Major wind farms are being developed in Tunisia and Egypt; and now South Africa is introducing measures that could have long-term implications for the country's power sector.
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