The main objective of a tender, issued by the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries (DEFF), calling for service providers to take a fresh look at the country’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions guidelines and carbon space allocation, is to review the GHG Emission Performance Guidelines, the department has clarified to Engineering News Online and Mining Weekly Online. In response to an article published by Engineering News Online and Mining Weekly Online on August 5, the department said the article had misinterpreted the scope of the tender, stating that “neither the guidelines, nor the review thereof, are meant to support one sector to reduce its emissions and are by no means supposed to favour mitigation interventions deployed by one sector over others”.
