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Monday, 14 August 2023

Just Transition Tagging Tool

Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (1st Iteration)*

To deliver just transition projects on the ground, South Africa needs to be able to ensure that just transition funding and financing starts flowing immediately and is credibly, consistently and transparently deployed. To facilitate this, TIPS has developed a tool using an evidence-based, iterative methodology which can tag (label) a project as: just transition, not just transition, or just transition plus.

A 1st iteration of the tool is presented in this paper.

*Note that the paper was previously called A Just Transition Transaction Framework: A Framework for Financing Investments in a Just Transition.

Download report or read online: Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (1st Iteration)

This report has been made possible by the support of the African Climate Foundation and the European Climate Foundation.

Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (1st Iteration): An Application to Real World Projects

In this paper the 1st iteration of the tool is tested against real world projects. The tool underperforms and a 2nd iteration is proposed.

Download report or read online: Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (1st Iteration): An Application to Real World Projects

This report has been made possible by the support of the African Climate Foundation and the European Climate Foundation.

Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (2st Iteration): A User's Guide

This paper provides a user’s guide to the tool’s 2nd iteration The guide allows all interested parties to apply the tool to potential just transition projects and see whether they would be tagged as just transition or not.

Download report or read online: Just Tansition Project Tagging Tool (2nd Iteration: A User's Guide

Launch: Just Transition Transaction Framework: A First Iteration - August 2023

Presentation

A Framework For Financing Investments in A Just Transition - Sandy Lowit, TIPS Research Fellow

Media

TIPS sets out to create a South Africa-focused Just Transition Transaction Framework - Engineering News 21 August 2023

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Monday, 14 August 2023

Localisation and industrial policy: Scopes, debates and instruments

Localisation has become an increasingly important part of South Africa’s industrial policy as articulated by the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition. At its core, it is a strategy to identify and support sectoral priorities for industrialisation. Those functions are also central to the well-known import-substitution and export-oriented models. The localisation approach remains relatively under-theorised, however, and is often wrongly equated to import-substitution industrialisation as conventionally conceptualised. This paper aims to deepen understanding of South Africa’s localisation strategy by identifying:
its economic logic; how it differs from the import-substitution and export-oriented approaches adopted over the past century; and the main obstacles to implementation.

Published in Trade and Industry

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