据烃加工网站9月24日报道 南非燃料和化学品生产商萨索尔有限公司的首席执行官表示，公司已将2030年的减排目标从之前的10%提高到30%，以期在2050年前使该公司成为净零碳排放者。

    新目标出台之际，该公司正面临来自投资者和环保人士的压力，要求其在污染严重的工厂采取果断措施。这些工厂通常被称为非洲大陆最严重的温室气体排放者之一。

    萨索尔首席执行官Fleetwood Grobler在接受路透社采访时表示，公司计划到2030年将温室气体排放量从6390万吨减少到4473万吨左右，高于此前的目标5750万吨。

    “这在三个层面上起作用——增加天然气作为过渡燃料、可再生能源和能源效率过程，”他说。

    世界上最大的煤炭汽车燃料制造商每年从自己的煤矿消耗约4000万吨煤炭，每年出口高达400万吨。

    这家石化巨头打算逐步取代煤炭，增加天然气消耗量，将其用作过渡燃料。

    然而，他表示，南非的煤炭消费将在有限的水平上持续到2040年。

    Grobler表示：“到2030年，我们的煤炭出口可能会降至零……煤炭储量可能会持续到2040年。萨索尔不会投资任何新煤矿或延长其煤矿的寿命。”

    随着煤炭消费量的减少，到2030年，一部分劳动力也将过剩。

    首席财务官保罗·维克托在一次演讲中表示，公司每年将投资约200亿兰特（13.5亿美元），以实现2030年的目标。

    王磊 摘译自 烃加工

    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.