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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Just energy transition"”.
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Enabling the Just Energy Transition in South Africa
South Africa's recently published Just Transition Framework (2022) signalled a critical juncture for the country's heretofore separate energy decarbonisation and developmental agendas. However, despite the win-win framing of the South African just energy transition, evidence suggests that it may do …
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A critical analysis of civil society's engagement in South Africa's just energy transition: dynamics and debates
South Africa is currently undergoing a Just Energy Transition (JET) that seeks to design and create a clean and just energy industry in South Africa. This process is underpinned by a rapid revision of energy sector policies, regulatory frameworks and debates around energy reform. The aim of the …
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Exploring the socio-economic impacts of South Africa’s just energy transition (JET): a case study of coal-dependent communities in Mpumalanga
… The challenge in this study focused on a just energy transition in the coal mining sector in South Africa and the reality of implementing such change in communities that rely on coal mining. The focus of the study was to explore the socio-economic impacts of the JET on employment in …
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Banking on sustainable development: the role of development finance institutions in advancing constitutional obligations in light of South Africa's just energy transition
… change, South Africans sit in the dark amidst an energy crisis, an environmental crisis and a development crisis. For too long has the country been unable to generate energy in a way that guarantees security of supply and affordability for its people, and in a manner that is environmentally and …
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A comparative analysis of South Africa's minerals-energy complex before 2011 and the current pursuit of a renewable just energy transition post-2011 to 2023
This research traces South Africa's energy transition. It examines to what extent South Africa is on a just transition trajectory by comparing the minerals-energy complex and the current transition to renewable energy. It conducts this review of just transition through the lens of “equity” and …
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The Role Of Repurposing Coal Plants to Thermal Energy Storage in the Context of India
… asset risk associated with this critical transition could fall disproportionately on Asian economies with younger coal fleets, like India. Here, we use a bottom-up and top-down techno-economic modeling approach to explore the value of installing commercially available, molten-salt thermal …
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Just Transition: Lessons from Mexico
In 2013, Mexico undertook a series of national energy reforms that promoted largescale, privately-funded renewable energy development. The stated goals of the reforms were to fill investment gaps in the public energy sector and to help meet CO2 reduction targets. Human rights and environmental …
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Towards “just” energy transitions in unequal societies: an actor-centric analysis of South Africa's evolving electricity sector
… in the synonymous pathway towards a global energy transition. Through enhanced national climate action plans, countries worldwide are formulating development pathways that are aligned to a carbon-neutral and net-zero emissions global economy. The recent IPCC Sixth Assessment report …
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How just is Just: financing transition towards SDG_7 in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
… domestic carbon emission by 2030 whilst ensuring just pathways of transitioning to cleaner sources of energy. The United Nations's 2030 SDG7 seeks to ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern sources energy and which is closely linked to the foundations of the National …
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The siting of renewable energy developments in a crowded marine space
As Scotland transitions to net zero, justice for existing marine users who may be impacted by offshore renewable energy developments can be considered across three tenets, procedural, recognitional and distributional justice, and they will all influence whether a just transition is achieved. This …
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Energy Justice from the Bottom Up: A Capability Approach to Community Acceptance of Wind Energy in Southern Mexico
Adopting ambitious renewable energy targets has profound social, economic, and environmental implications, at local and global scales. Indeed, these targets have raised deep questions about social justice in capitalist societies attempting to pursue clean energy transitions. To understand how these …
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Energy Policy Impacts on Air Quality and Climate at the National, Regional and Global Scale
… to adapt to and mitigate climate change in a just way requires an understanding of the local impacts of policy, as well as the uncertainties in the human and earth systems. This thesis brings together air quality and climate change, quantifying the impacts of relevant policies, developing …