Mr Steve Lennon, Chief Executive on Sustainability: ESKOM added that there need to be better policy alignment on climate change among government departments and parastatals. The cost of water use in the energy sector and carbon emission is being increasingly internalised in the Integrated Resource Plan. However, the commitment of the Copenhagen Accord and the conditionality attached to it, is a clear indication that the global fund to assist South Africa's power sector, as suggested in the Integrated Resource Plan, might be difficult to access.