據烴加工網站9月24日報道 南非燃料和化學品生產商薩索爾有限公司的首席執行官表示，公司已將2030年的減排目標從之前的10%提高到30%，以期在2050年前使該公司成為凈零碳排放者。

    新目標出臺之際，該公司正面臨來自投資者和環保人士的壓力，要求其在污染嚴重的工廠采取果斷措施。這些工廠通常被稱為非洲大陸最嚴重的溫室氣體排放者之一。

    薩索爾首席執行官Fleetwood Grobler在接受路透社采訪時表示，公司計劃到2030年將溫室氣體排放量從6390萬噸減少到4473萬噸左右，高于此前的目標5750萬噸。

    “這在三個層面上起作用——增加天然氣作為過渡燃料、可再生能源和能源效率過程，”他說。

    世界上最大的煤炭汽車燃料制造商每年從自己的煤礦消耗約4000萬噸煤炭，每年出口高達400萬噸。

    這家石化巨頭打算逐步取代煤炭，增加天然氣消耗量，將其用作過渡燃料。

    然而，他表示，南非的煤炭消費將在有限的水平上持續到2040年。

    Grobler表示：“到2030年，我們的煤炭出口可能會降至零……煤炭儲量可能會持續到2040年。薩索爾不會投資任何新煤礦或延長其煤礦的壽命。”

    隨著煤炭消費量的減少，到2030年，一部分勞動力也將過剩。

    首席財務官保羅·維克托在一次演講中表示，公司每年將投資約200億蘭特（13.5億美元），以實現2030年的目標。

    王磊 摘譯自 烴加工

    原文如下：

    South Africa's Sasol to reduce carbon emissions by 30% to 2030

    South Africa's fuel and chemical producer Sasol Ltd has raised its emissions reduction targets for 2030 to 30% from 10% previously in a bid to make the company a net zero carbon emitter by 2050, its CEO said.

    The new targets come as the company faces pressure from investors and environmentalists to take decisive steps at its heavily polluting plants, often described as amongst the continent's worst greenhouse gas emitters (GHG).

    Fleetwood Grobler, CEO of Sasol said in an interview with Reuters that the company intends to cut down its GHG emissions from 63.9 million tonnes to about 44.73 million tonnes by 2030, up from 57.5 million tonnes as per its previous target.

    "This works on three levers - increase of natural gas as a transition fuel, renewable power source and energy efficiency processes," he said.

    The world's top manufacturer of motor fuel from coal consumes around 40 million tonnes of coal annually from its own mines and exports up to 4 million tonnes each year.

    The petrochemicals major intends to gradually replace coal, with increased natural gas consumption which will be used as a transition fuel.

    However, its coal consumption will, at a limited level, would still continue till 2040, he said.

    "Our exports of coal are likely to come down to zero by 2030... the coal reserves will likely last till 2040," Grobler said, adding that Sasol would not invest in any new coal mines or in extending the life of its mines.

    He said with the reduction in coal consumption, a part of its workforce would also be redundant by 2030.

    It will invest up to roughly 20 billion rand ($1.35 billion) annually to achieve the 2030 target, CFO Paul Victor said in a presentation.