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The status of SA’s energy transition financing

Much has been made about the $8.5 billion pledged to support South Africa’s Just Energy Transition

The Presidential Climate Commission has objected to extending coal-fired power stations beyond their natural lifespan. (Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images)

Extending coal plants lifespan will not solve anything, says Crispian Olver

Climate commission presents its recommendations to Ramaphosa, highlighting that it is vital to decommission crumbling plants as soon as the power crunch eases

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

Tank pipework onboard the Karmol LNGT Powership Asia floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), operated by Karpowership, viewed from the ship’s bridge whilst docked at Cape Town port in Cape Town, South Africa. Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Energy Indaba: Use gas to wean Africa off fossil fuels

Conference sees delegates setting the continent’s agenda for COP28

Eskom board chairperson Mpho Makwana. Photo: Getty Images

UPDATE: What next for Eskom as De Ruyter immediately released from duties

Sources on the board of Eskom believe that chief financial officer Calib Cassim will take over as the next CEO

Former Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter. (Gallo Images / Brenton Geach)

DA calls former Eskom chief executive De Ruyter ‘brave’, thanks him for his service

DA calls former Eskom chief executive De Ruyter ‘brave’, thanks him for his service

Ozone layer’s recovery shows climate change can be reversed

An international agreement signed in 1987 resulted in the global phasing out of ozone-depleting gases

Food prices soared in Sierra Leone in 2022. (Saidu Bah/AFP)

Political and economic volatility will continue in Africa in 2023

Although direct trade and financial links between Africa, Russia and Ukraine may be small, the main effect of the war will be civil strife in Africa driven by food and energy…

It is in everyone’s interests to make the African Union Transitional Justice Policy work. (Reuters)

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

Climate funding shortfalls are exacerbating hardships faced by Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States. (History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Climate justice is a matter of survival for Small Island Developing States

Climate funding shortfalls are exacerbating hardships faced by Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States

Despite the country’s globally significant biodiversity, ecosystems across terrestrial, freshwater, estuarine and marine environments are under escalating pressure.

The biodiversity crisis is no less important than the climate crisis

Leaders meeting in Montreal for COP15 must deliberate in a spirit of co-operation for the sake of the planet’s future

Just transition needs to look after the most vulnerable and work for societies relying on coal.

Just energy transitions needs a whole of society approach

If a just transition is to be achieved, there must also be major societal changes.

A medical health worker injects the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to a woman as they visit door-to-door to deliver the vaccines to people who live far from health facilities in Siaya, Kenya, on May 18, 2021. (Photo by Brian ONGORO / AFP)

The climate crisis is also a health crisis

The interplay between climate change and the spread of pathogens means health systems must be ready for future crises and ensure equitable access to treatment

COP27’s loss and damage fund delivers climate justice despite conference shortcomings

While COP27 saw some major milestones achieved, there were also worrying breaches in commitments to tackle the real sources of climate change

As expected, COP27 was an exercise in avoidance and blame-shifting, where the world’s largest fossil fuel polluters, the oil and gas industry, got away scot-free

Conferences such as COP27 are nothing more than elite junkets

Government- and corporate-driven summits to address the actions of climate-destroying extractive industries promote inequality

The world made progress in 2022 to address climate change and protect nature but much remains to be done to overcome entrenched interests.

COP27 loss and damage fund welcomed but some fear it is an ‘empty bucket’

Climate change diplomacy is a game of give and take — and it would appear that the environment and humanity will have to keep on giving

History shows us that a handful of countries from the Global North are largely responsible for climate change and continue to be so (China’s per capita emissions are still less than half those of the US, while over a fifth of China’s emissions come from exports). Photo: Supplied

Can we really expect climate justice to result from COP27?

The Global North must own up to its responsibility for the climate emergency and pay the debt owed to the Global South — in actions not words

Out with the old, in with the new: Komati is being used to demonstrate how old power plants can be repurposed.

South Africa’s energy transition rises in the east

Mpumalanga, the province ‘where the sun rises’, takes centre stage in SA’s Just Energy Transition Plan

Egyptian Foreign Minister Samih Shukri makes a speech as part of the UN climate summit COP27 held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on November 18, 2022. (Photo by Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Last push for consensus as COP27 draws to a close

Déjà vu inside the closed door corridors of Sharm El Sheik

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