Several organisations have come before the Portfolio Committee on Water and Environmental Affairs in the last three weeks and have suggested that our emissions need to peak in the next year or two. That is not going to happen, nor should it. We need a sustainable transition to a low-carbon economy. We cannot put our economy at risk by introducing new shocks in the near future, such as the carbon tax, which will be passed onto consumers and result in job losses. We need to think the policy interventions through. We need to get them in the right order and introduce them at the right time. Sequencing and policy coherence are vitally important.