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

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 pages)
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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.

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