A Just Transition to a Low Carbon Future in South Africa.

• Author: Xaba, Nqobile.
• TeilnehmendeR: Fakir, Saliem.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA), The,, 2022.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PROJECT FUNDERS -- MISTRA FUNDERS -- Contributors -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- ONE - Introduction. A just transition pathway for South Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- THEMES, OVERVIEW OF BOOK CHAPTERS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS -- The landing of the just transition in South Africa -- A shift in economic paradigm -- Technology as enablers for the just transition -- Social and political factors relevant to climate change and the low carbon transition -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 1. The landing of the just transition in South Africa -- TWO - From climate change to a just energy transition -- INTRODUCTION -- CLIMATE CHANGE: CAUSE, IMPACT AND LAYERED VULNERABILITIES -- SOUTH AFRICA'S DECARBONISATION JOURNEY -- SOUTH AFRICA'S POLICY ENVIRONMENT -- NEW AGREEMENT AND THE DOMESTICATION OF CLIMATE ACTIONS -- PREMISE OF AN INCLUSIVE AND JUST TRANSITION -- THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND RE-EMERGENCE OF GREEN RECOVERIES -- REFERENCES -- THREE - Applying a normative framework to assess the just transition to a net zero carbon society in South Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- FRAMEWORK FOR A JUST TRANSITION -- Procedural justice -- Distributive justice -- Restorative justice -- APPLYING THE NORMATIVE JUST TRANSITION FRAMEWORK TO KEY POLICY PROCESSES IN SOUTH AFRICA -- Case study on industrial policy -- Case study on employment policy -- Case study on climate policy -- ADVANCING A COHERENT AND COORDINATED JUST TRANSITION POLICY FRAMEWORK -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 2. Shift in economic paradigm -- FOUR - Shaping a new economic growth model for South Africa. The role of a well-managed energy transition -- OVERVIEW -- A NEW GROWTH MODEL FOR SOUTH AFRICA -- GLOBAL CONTEXT OF ENERGY TRANSITION -- MAPPING SOUTH AFRICA'S ENERGY TRANSITION.

ALLOWING FOR LARGER EMBEDDED, OR DISTRIBUTED, POWER INVESTMENTS BY FIRMS -- UPDATING THE INTEGRATED RESOURCES PLAN AND ACCELERATING INVESTMENT IN WIND AND SOLAR CAPACITY -- REAFFIRMING CORRUPTION-FREE BIDDING PROCESSES RUN BY THE INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCER OFFICE -- COMMITTING TO AN ACCELERATED DECARBONISATION TARGET TO ASSIST IN ALLEVIATING ESKOM DEBT AND TO FUND A JUST TRANSITION -- UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM LINKAGES FOR JOB CREATION -- RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH SOUTH AFRICA' S CARBON-INTENSIVE INDUSTRIAL BASE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FIVE - From MEC to net zero. The role of the energy sector in the just transition -- INTRODUCTION -- THE HISTORY OF ENERGY AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY IN SOUTH AFRICA: THE MINERALS ENERGY COMPLEX -- FRAGMENTATION AND FRACTURE: THE NASCENT DISINTEGRATION OF THE MEC -- THE END OF NEW COAL-FIRED POWER -- FROM STABILITY TO CRISIS: ESKOM COAL SUPPLY AND MINING -- EMERGENCE OF THE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERS PROCUREMENT PROGRAMME -- 2030 CLIMATE TARGETS REDEFINE SOUTH AFRICA' S POLICY TRAJECTORY -- UNRESOLVED DYNAMICS: THE RESURGENCE OF NUCLEAR? -- UNRESOLVED DYNAMICS: THE DASH FOR GAS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SIX - Green industrial development under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Positioning South Africa's renewable energy manufacturing -- INTRODUCTION -- RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY LANDSCAPE - A LACK OF POLITICAL WILL? -- THE AFRICAN CONTINENTAL FREE TRADE AREA: A PATHWAY TO GREEN INDUSTRIALISATION -- Energy market integration -- Rethinking industrial policy to accelerate an energy transition -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SEVEN - South Africa's smoke signals for financing the just energy transition -- INTRODUCTION -- NEXUS OF FINANCE WITH SUSTAINABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE -- FINANCING JUST TRANSITIONS -- COVID-19 AND CLIMATE FINANCE -- SOUTH AFRICA'S ENCOUNTERS WITH CLIMATE FINANCE.

SIGNALLING FINANCE NEEDS FOR SOUTH AFRICA'S JUST ENERGY TRANSITION -- CLIMATE FINANCE AS A RAGING FIRE? -- BEYOND SMOKE SIGNALS TO RAGING FIRE: ARTICULATING SOUTH AFRICA' S DEMANDS FOR FINANCE -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 3. Technology pathways for a just transition -- EIGHT - Steering the South African energy sector towards a low carbon economy. The role of a well-managed energy transition -- INTRODUCTION -- HYDROGEN -- Hydrogen properties -- Hydrogen generation, storage and distribution -- Hydrogen application: Fuel cells -- Challenges and barriers for production and deployment of green hydrogen -- POSITIONING SOUTH AFRICA IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL TRANSITION USING HYDROGEN AND FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGIES -- Advancement of green hydrogen and power fuels -- Beneficiation of green hydrogen -- THE STATE OF SA'S FUEL CELL AND HYDROGEN TECHNOLOGIES -- The HySA Programme -- South African industry transitions towards a hydrogen economy -- Mining sector contribution to hydrogen and fuel cells technology development and deployment -- Cities adopting the hydrogen economy -- SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION IN SOUTH AFRICA AND THE HYDROGEN ECONOMY -- Systems required for a sustainable transition to a hydrogen economy -- Investment and creation of markets -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NINE - Shaping the low carbon energy transformation for just urban transitions in South Africa -- INTRODUCTION AND CONTEXT -- CONCEPTUALISING JUST URBAN TRANSITIONS FOR SOUTH AFRICA -- TRANSFORMING SOUTH AFRICA'S URBAN ENERGY SYSTEMS BETWEEN 1994 AND 2021 -- DECENTRALISATION AND JUST TRANSITION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 4. Social factors of climate change and the just transition -- TEN - Assessing options of an energy transition and alternative agriculture in Mpumalanga -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION ONE. ENERGY TRANSITIONS: OPTIONS FOR REPURPOSING COAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

COAL INFRASTRUCTURE REPURPOSING OPTIONS -- THE JUST ENERGY TRANSITION APPROACH -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- SECTION 2. REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE: AN ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PATHWAY -- REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE -- Employment in regenerative agriculture -- LAND REHABILITATION THROUGH REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE -- Policy requirements for regenerative agriculture to support a just transition -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- CHAPTER OVERVIEW -- REFERENCES -- ELEVEN - Democratising a just transition in South Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- INTERNATIONAL ORIGINS -- CONSTRAINTS ON ACHIEVING A JUST TRANSITION -- A QUESTION OF POWER -- INSIGHTS FROM LABOUR ON A JUST TRANSITION -- THE COSATU CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY FRAMEWORK -- INSIGHTS FROM CIVIL SOCIETY ON A JUST TRANSITION -- AREAS OF CONSENSUS AND CONVERGENCE -- GLOBAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT AND THE JUST TRANSITION -- CONCLUSION: THE BASIS FOR THE MASS COALITION MOVEMENT ON THE JUST TRANSITION -- REFERENCES -- TWELVE - Climate liberalism, the green deal and strategic competition. The geopolitics of decarbonisation -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ASIA PIVOT: CHINA'S INCREASING THREAT TO WESTERN SUPREMACY -- CHINA'S POSITIONING IN GREEN TECHNOLOGIES AND GREEN MINERALS: A GROWING THREAT TO WESTERN SUPREMACY -- AS NEW BATTLE LINES ARE DRAWN, HOW ARE OTHER GLOBAL PLAYERS RESPONDING? -- THE ROAD AHEAD FOR AFRICA: LEVERAGING THE NEW GEOPOLITICAL BATTLE LINES -- SOUTH AFRICA'S ROLE IN SECURING AFRICA' S FUTURE POSITIONING IN THE DECARBONISATION AGENDA -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- THIRTEEN - Reimagining skills planning for a low carbon and sustainable future. Conceptualising skills ecosystems -- INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND -- Green skills: A meander through the literature -- Framework for looking at skills for a green and just transition.

UNPACKING CASE STUDY EXAMPLES TO DEPICT THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL DIMENSIONS OF TWO SKILLS ECOSYSTEMS -- CASE 1 - Skills ecosystem - The wood pellet value chain in the Expanded Public Works Programme -- CASE 2 - Towards a resilient food ecosystem: Addressing food waste -- Facilitating verticalities within the skills ecosystem that emerged from this case -- Horizontalities (collaboration) that emerged -- THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL IN THE SKILLS ECOSYSTEMS -- LESSONS ON SKILLS AND SKILLS ECOSYSTEMS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FOURTEEN - Conclusion. Insights and recommendations for building a just low carbon future in South Africa -- INTRODUCTION -- SOCIAL DIALOGUE AND COHESION FOR A JUST TRANSITION -- A 'JUST' INCLUSIVE ECONOMIC GROWTH -- TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS FOR EQUITABLE ACCESS TO ENERGY -- CAPACITY BUILDING AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT FOR A CAPABLE WORKFORCE -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- REFERENCES -- Index -- Back cover.