‘SA can’t leave its shift to a low-carbon future to chance’
25 Jan 2021
Building resilience: South Africa is dependent on fossil fuels, but the switch to a more sustainable economy requires protecting people’s livelihoods. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Without international and private finance, South Africa’s path towards building a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy will be “very limited”, according to the chief executive of the National Business Initiative (NBI), Joanne Yawitch.
This is a result of the poor state of the economy, worsened by the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, Yawitch said at the launch of the Just Transition Finance Roadmaps in South Africa and India project. Both are coal-dependent countries.
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London Says, $1 Billion To Shut All Your Coal Plants Is a ‘Just Transition’
Jan 25 , 2021 (EIRNS) On Jan 20, the U.K.’s CDC Group the government-owned “investment” arm of the Foreign Office, founded in 1948, with a special focus on Africa and South Asia (and nothing to do with public health). On Jan. 19, the Grantham Research Institute of London School of Economics and CDC Group hosted a webinar of the Just Transition Financial Roadmap, launched in 2018 by the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Environment and Initiative for Responsible Investment at the Harvard Kennedy School. The webinar, “Just Transition Finance Roadmaps in South Africa and India: Project Launch,” led in establishing a $1 billion fund for “sustainable” investments, in their words, “facilitate a just transition to zero emissions growth in the coal-dependent economies of South Africa and India.” Joining these Malthusians in their launch were
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Recognizes the clean energy transition as an opportunity to create a more equitable, just and sustainable economy
Recommends five best practices to bring local communities and workforces into planning with clean energy project developers, purchasers, investors and regulators
December 13, 2020 /3BL Media/ - As clean energy deployment accelerates across the U.S. with solar and wind power now supplying more electricity than coal and $1.7 trillion in new renewable projects expected this decade, Ceres issues today a set of recommendations to help ensure local communities and workers are not left behind in the clean energy transition.
Recognizing in the transition a huge opportunity to create a more equitable, just and sustainable economy, the report Practices for Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development of Clean Energy Resources details how the rapid clean energy deployment underway can and must embrace local stakeholders’ needs for local jobs, economic be
Recognizes the clean energy transition as an opportunity to create a more equitable, just and sustainable economy
Recommends five best practices to bring local communities and workforces into planning with clean energy project developers, purchasers, investors and regulators
December 13, 2020 /3BL Media/ - As clean energy deployment accelerates across the U.S. with solar and wind power now supplying more electricity than coal and $1.7 trillion in new renewable projects expected this decade, Ceres issues today a set of recommendations to help ensure local communities and workers are not left behind in the clean energy transition.
Recognizing in the transition a huge opportunity to create a more equitable, just and sustainable economy, the report Practices for Just, Equitable and Sustainable Development of Clean Energy Resources details how the rapid clean energy deployment underway can and must embrace local stakeholders’ needs for local jobs, economic benefits and protection of
As the transition to green energy continues accelerating in the U.S., a new paper from sustainability nonprofit Ceres outlines best practices for green energy developers.
With the Biden administration aiming to push as much as $1.7 trillion into a plan to boost renewable power over the next 10 years, the paper recommends that developers invest in and engage with their local workforce and communities. This ensures developers’ projects are done in an equitable way for all stakeholders; and, without this, the report said, the future of green energy development is jeopardized.
“The U.S. energy sector’s shift to clean energy is creating a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build a more just, equitable and sustainable society,” the paper said.