{"id":23500,"date":"2026-02-09T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-names-patel-as-climate-commission-deputy-chairperson\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:17","slug":"sa-president-names-patel-as-climate-commission-deputy-chairperson","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-names-patel-as-climate-commission-deputy-chairperson\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President names Patel as Climate Commission Deputy Chairperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed Dipak Patel as Deputy Chairperson of the Presidential Climate Commission, to serve a term from 2026 to 2030.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ramaphosa says Patel&#8217;s appointment forms part of strengthening the Commission&#8217;s work on climate finance, investment mobilisation and the delivery of SA&#8217;s Just Energy Transition objectives.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A project aimed at shifting the country&#8217;s energy source from coal to cleaner alternatives while protecting workers and vulnerable communities by 2050.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Patel had previously served as Senior Advisor on Climate Finance and Innovation to the Presidential Climate Commission.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23501,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-23500","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Ramaphosa has appointed Dipak Patel","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26445,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23500\/revisions\/26445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}