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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.

Energy apartheid: Mining companies transition without justice

Anglo Platinum has invested in renewable energy but ignored the local community’s proposals for socially-owned clean energy

In 2024, global coal consumption reached a record high, with commercial banks investing more than $130 billion across Asia, the US and Europe.. (Paul Botes)

Brics talks green, acts dirty

Countries like Brazil and Ethiopia push for development that is led by renewable energy but other members of the Brics block are protecting their fossil fuel interests

The energy transition itself carries human rights risks. If clean energy is built on compromised rights, it will not be sustainable in the long term. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Clean energy must extend beyond megawatts and minerals

Renewable does not always mean responsible, which is why business and human rights needs to be at the heart of Africa’s energy future

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South Africa’s energy future lies in innovation

Consumers responded to load-shedding by installing solar energy. In response, Eskom chose higher tariffs instead of encouraging the move to clean energy

There is a good argument for Southern Africa to be positioned as a hub for beneficiation and manufacturing in the renewable energy and electric vehicle sectors, generating additional revenue, building local expertise and creating higher-value jobs.

Critical minerals a potential catalyst for sustainable growth in Southern Africa

Policies that attract investment while safeguarding long-term national interests can foster a conducive environment for cross-border investments

Earthshot Prize announces this year’s winners who are shaping a greener, cleaner future

Prince William champions Africa’s role at 2024 Earthshot Prize

Earthshot Prize announces this year’s winners who are shaping a greener, cleaner future

Drought-stricken: The dry vista around Bloemhof and Geluk farms, bordering on the Namib-Naukluft National Park. Photo: John Grobler
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Green energy innovations are being developed in Namibia’s desert

Green hydrogen features in projects aimed at producing carbon-free steel and ammonia fuel for shipping and rail transport

Transport Minister Barbara Creecy

Creecy: SA must act on just energy transition or lose out on funding

Creecy: SA must act on just energy transition or lose out on funding

Nuclear scientists claim to have made a major breakthrough in fusion research.

Nuclear energy fusion “breakthrough” – How excited should we get?

Is nuclear fusion just a dream or is it achievable?

Climate activists held demonstration in front of International Convention Center to protest the negative effects of climate change, as the UN climate summit COP27 continues in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 17, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The West is using COP27 to shift blame – private greed prevails over humanity’s survival

Rich nations have devised a system to hide the facts and put the blame for global warming on poorer nations

Climate justice campaigners march from the Shell Centre to Trafalgar Square to demand urgent climate finance and reparations for loss and damage for global south communities on 12 November 2022 in London, United Kingdom. The march was organised by the Climate Justice Coalition as part of a Global Day of Action called by African climate campaign groups at COP27. (photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images)

COP27: Rich nations that caused the problem must deliver on climate commitments

There is no time to stall. Those responsible for the climate crisis must act now

Photographer: Dean Hutton/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Clean energy explainer: What is a just transition?

Researchers say South Africa needs a ‘deep just transition’ that goes beyond moving to renewable energy

Young protesters carry placards as they take part in a Climate Strike march towards Thailands Ministry of Natural Resource and Development to mark Earth Day in Bangkok on April 22, 2022. (Jack Taylor/AFP via Getty Images)

Investors and startups are focusing on green, sustainable businesses

In South Africa and abroad it is renewable energy, new environmental-friendly technologies and materials, as well as goods and services that are attracting attention

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Oil and gas firms ‘harassed’ out of South Africa, Gwede Mantashe says

Minister tells African Energy Indaba country ‘wants to be island of angels in sea of poverty’

African Development Bank Group headquarters in Le Plateau, the business district of the Ivorian capital Abidjan. – (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP via Getty Images)

African Development Bank kicked civil society to the curb at COP26

The bank asked the African Climate Reality Project to coordinate and present a position statement on energy, agriculture, forestry, land and ecosystems and climate finance but…

Former Eskom chief executive André de Ruyter.

Q&A Sessions: ‘I cannot fix Eskom. But we can fix this’ — André de Ruyter

Meet the father, the cook and the chief executive of Eskom, who wakes up at 3am and writes speeches. André de Ruyter speaks to Athandiwe Saba about the future of the power…

An employee walks past stockpiled of coal for shipping at the Richard’s Bay coal terminal, in Richard’s Bay. (Dean Hutton/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Coal on a drive to delay its demise

The just transition that is currently being executed is a balance between energy security and climate change, according to one analyst

Zero emissions target: Illegal charcoal production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Emerging economies need to have a framework that will attract investment in clean energy. Photo: Alexis Huguet/AFP

Give Africa clean energy funds – IEA

Fatih Birol, the IEA’s executive director, says wealthy countries have a ‘moral responsibility’ to enable a just transition

Global greenhouse-gas emissions should have their numbers dwindle if we remain faithful to emerging technologies. Photo: Supplied

Move to renewable energy must be people-centred, report says

New International Energy Agency report says policy changes will play pivotal role in reducing greenhouse emissions by 2050

Twenty years ago, the role of South Africa’s cities in the sustainable energy transition and the scale of their energy consumption was unknown. Today, they’re at the forefront of changing the country’s energy demands and carbon emissions profiles.

South Africa’s cities opt for clean energy

Efforts to reduce carbon emissions will hinge on the transport sector