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Emissions rise from the cooling towers of the Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. Kriel coal-fired power station in Mpumalanga, South Africa, on Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. The level of sulfur dioxide emissions in the Kriel area in Mpumalanga province only lags the Norilsk Nickel metal complex in the Russian town of Norilsk, the environmental group Greenpeace said in a statement, citing 2018 data from NASA satellites. Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images
CLIMATE CHANGE

Attribution science can help win cases against climate change perpetrators — researchers

If plaintiffs start winning cases against individual polluters, Eskom and Sasol could be sued in South Africa

  • Tunicia Phillips
5 min read