while we through the long term mitigation scenarios have an understanding of what south africa needs to do to ultimately reduce its own emissions in the period after twenty thirty how we are going to get there remains unclear no doubt after the climate negotiations are complete government will begin to table its plans in more detail but let me sound a warning and that is the longer we take to respond to reducing our emissions the more difficult it will become the investments we make today and i_letter am thinking here particularly about the love affair that eskom has with building new coal power stations will lock us into a particular emissions trajectory for years and years to come therefore even if we only plan to reduce actual emissions many years from now we need to make our investments now