South Africa Appoints Olver Deputy Chair of Climate Commission

By Helen Nyambura

October 27, 2024 at 12:35PM EDT

Water sits in the Molteno reservoir as Table mountain stands beyond in Cape Town, South Africa on Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Cape Town has tightened water usage restrictions, banning the use of potable water to irrigate gardens, wash cars or top up swimming pools, as it confronts its worst drought on record and a delay to the onset of the winter rainy season. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg)

(Bloomberg) -- South Africa has picked Crispian Olver as the new deputy chairman of the Presidential Climate Commission from Nov. 1.

Olver has been the body’s executive director since is inception almost four years ago and will replace Valli Moosa, who retired earlier this year.

South Africa is the world’s 15th-biggest producer of climate-warming greenhouse gases and has one of the world’s most carbon-intensive economies. It’s implementing a $9.3-billion initiative to slash its over-reliance on coal in partnership with some of the world’s richest nations.