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INTRODUCTION
OUR FUTURE SASOL STRATEGY
RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES
GOVERNANCE
DATA AND ASSURANCE
DECARBONISING OUR VALUE CHAINS (CONTINUED)
Using offsets (continued)
PROJECTS WE ARE SUPPORTING
Grassland Restoration and Stewardship in South Africa (GRASS)
Fuel-efficient cooking in South Africa
PROJECT OBJECTIVE
PROJECT OBJECTIVE
To restore communal
grasslands in South Africa
through improved grazing
management practices that
increase soil carbon sequestration
and reduce enteric methane
emissions. Three catchments in
the Drakensberg escarpment in
KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape
are targeted.
South Africa’s rangelands are being
devastated by poor grazing
management and disruption of the
predator-prey balance, which results
in soil degradation and erosion, poor
quality forage, increased wild-fire
risks, reduced biodiversity and poor
livestock health. From an economic perspective, communal
farmers lack market accessibility, supplying only 5% of the
meat market, while owning roughly 65% of the national
livestock. This project recognises that ecological restoration
and rural economic development can be promoted in a mutually
beneficial manner. Carbon credits are being generated because
of increased soil organic carbon and reduced enteric methane
emissions from improved livestock health and forage quality.
By working with local NGOs, not for profit organisations (NPOs)
and various technical and implementation partners, rural
farmers are enabled to implement a collaborative grazing
management plan, prevent and halt wildfires, improve their
livestock health with veterinary services and sell their animals
at a competitive price. The methodologies used to generate
carbon credits are verified under the Verified Carbon Standard
(VCS) and Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard (CCBS).
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Biomass emissions from domestic cooking account for a large portion
of global energy emissions. Gathering firewood for cooking and heating
significantly impacts deforestation and destruction of natural habitat.
It disproportionately affects females and youth, keeping them out of school,
away from more lucrative economic activities and exposing them to genderbased violence. Indoor air pollution impacts respiratory health, compounded
by the fact that rural dwellers have limited or no access to health care.
These methods also produce more GHGs and particulate emissions.
Addressing the triple challenge of energy poverty, environmental degradation
and GHG emissions, this project aims to distribute 400 000 cookstoves.
Each carbon credit generated realises an equivalent of R2 400 of localised
social impact. The project is registered with VCS, a globally recognised
certification body approved by the South African government for use within
the Carbon Tax Act.
PROJECT IMPACTS
PROJECT IMPACTS
Hectares under grazing
management agreement:
To distribute 400,000 fuel-efficient cookstoves to rural
communities dependent on open fires for cooking in Limpopo
and Mpumalanga provinces.
Emissions reduced:
Training and employment:
Emissions reduced:
80 eco-rangers
~480 000 tCO2e
trained on a Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality,
Sports, Sector Education Training Authority
(CATHSSETA) certified land management
training course
103 847 tCO2e
per annum
per annum
Cookstoves
distributed to date:
Combustion efficiency:
251 963
Time and fuel efficiency: boils five litres
of water in fifteen minutes using 250g
of wood or twigs
SDGs1
SDGs1
Sasol ecoFT launches Project Spekboom
Project Spekboom was launched with a tree
planting ceremony at the Sasol headquarters
in Johannesburg.
Ten Spekboom were planted as a symbol of Sasol’s commitment
to reducing emissions and scaling interventions, such as Spekboom
in the Eastern Cape region and, where possible, at scale for the areas
where we operate.
One hectare of Spekboom can sequester between four and ten tons
of carbon per year, which makes it a potential mitigation lever in the
fight against climate change and the move towards net zero.
Project Spekboom, as part of a wider nature-based-solutions
offering, forms part of Sasol ecoFT’s sustainability commitment.
1. Aligned with prioritised SDGs and our commitment to contribute where possible to all SDGs.
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