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Ramaphosa said the Just Energy Transition Investment Plan has attracted about R250 billion in international pledges for large-scale manufacturing, infrastructure and skills development.
CLEAN ENERGY INVESTMENT SOUTH AFRICA

South Africa advances just energy transition despite US withdrawal

Collective pledges for the country’s transition, including commitments from multilateral development banks, stands at $13.7 billion

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
Load shedding: Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the US from decarbonisation commitments reduces the pledges to South Africa from $13.8 billion to $12.8 billion. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
CLIMATE CHANGE SOUTH AFRICA

Climate fight continues despite US withdrawal from just energy transition partnership

The United States’s withdrawal from the just energy transition will not halt South Africa’s decarbonisation efforts, say climate experts

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
It is in everyone’s interests to make the African Union Transitional Justice Policy work. (Reuters)
BUSINESS

South Africa must get going on the just energy transition

The country needs to make this transition work, or risk losing up to 50% of its export value

  • Joanne Yawitch
5 min read
Measuring a country’s capacity to achieve its NDC targets is crucial, because it provides the foundation for improving capacity development, enhancing knowledge and optimising financial flows.
CLIMATE CHANGE

Will South Africa’s ‘green deal’ deliver as promised?

Civil society and affected people must be involved in the development of an investment plan and in discussions with international partners

  • Melissa Fourie & Wandisa Phama
8 min read
Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Barbara Creecy. (Photo by Ruvan Boshoff/Sunday Times/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
8 5 BILLION

SA hasn’t finalised delegation it will be sending to COP27 says Barbara Creecy

Forestry, fisheries and environment minister says Just Energy Transition Partnership making progress and the department has established a task team for negotiations

  • Sheree Bega
3 min read
Capitalism in crisis: US President Joe Biden (pictured during his inaugural address, above) may be far from Donald Trump ideologically, but both leaders’ parties are imprisoned in a neoliberal capitalist mode of thought, argues the author. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty/AFP & Bettmann)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

What is the future of the trade relationship between the US and South Africa?

A looming question for both sides is whether the African Growth and Opportunity Act, through which a number of African countries get access to the US market, will continue in its…

  • Bhaso Ndzendze
  • Thando Mncwango
  • Andiswa Matyolo
  • Ralph Musonza
6 min read