by Deborah Potts, King’s College London. An energy transition in South Africa which achieves improvements related to environmental problems like climate change and does this at the same time as furthering the aims of social and economic justice – i.e. a ‘just transition’ – can probably safely be described as
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Municipalities under pressure – Energy transitions, the apartheid legacy and South Africa’s fractured urban system
by Jiska de Groot, University of Cape Town. South Africa’s cities are faced with a central dilemma: how to address historical injustices and advance redress, whilst stimulating energy transitions and low carbon development? What does such a ‘just transition’ look like in a South African urban context? It will be
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