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Thursday, 20 June 2024

TIPS South Africa's Iron, Steel and Aluminium Industries Readiness to Respond to CBAM

  • Year 2024
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Seutame Maimele
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) entered its transition period on 1 October 2023, with the first CBAM report for the fourth quarter of 2023 submitted on 29 February 2024. Key industries most affected in South Africa are iron, steel and aluminium. The transition period will run for…
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Friday, 16 February 2024

The European Green Deal (EGD) and its implications for African Trade

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Seutame Maimele
  • Countries and Regions Africa
The European Green Deal (EGD) is a set of policy initiatives by the European Union (EU) with the overarching aim of making Europe the first continent to reach climate neutrality by 2050. The purpose of this study is to analyse the implications of the EGD on African trade. The objectives include…
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Monday, 29 January 2024

Global Perspectives on the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Dominic Ramos
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This Working Paper offers an overview of how governments in the Global South are responding to the EU CBAM, in contrast to responses from developed nations. It examines the background and essential measures of CBAM in relation to the reactions of major transnational groupings and the effects of CBAM on…
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Thursday, 10 August 2023

Responding to the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): South Africa's vulnerability and responses

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Seutame Maimele
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
CBAM is a key policy tool that forms part of the European Green Deal (EGD) to reduce net GHG emissions across Europe and abroad. Within this context, CBAM can be defined as a carbon border tax on embedded GHG emissions of carbon-intensive products imported into the EU. The main intent…
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Tuesday, 25 April 2023

Climate change and trade risk: South Africa's trade with the United States of America

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Kiara Muthusame, Seutame Maimele
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The United States of America (USA) is South Africa’s second largest single trade partner after China, having imported US$13 billion (about R192 billion) worth of goods in 2021. South Africa’s top five exports to the USA are platinum, motor vehicles, miscellaneous chemical products (some chemicals are used to create monomers and polymers for…
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Wednesday, 19 April 2023

South Africa's aluminium value chain and climate change compatibility

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Lerato Monaisa, Gaylor Montmasson-Clair
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Aluminium is the most used non-ferrous metal worldwide. Its multiple properties (lightweight, non-corrosive, high thermal and electrical conductivity, low density, non-toxic, non-magnetic) make it a versatile multiuse metal. Aluminium is used in various sectors, most prominently in transport, construction, consumer goods, packaging and machinery and equipment. The production of primary aluminium…
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Wednesday, 22 March 2023

A tale of life and death: The coal value chain's impacts on local communities in South Africa

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Lerato Monaisa Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS)
This working paper unpacks the impacts of a transition away from coal on affected communities in South Africa. It takes a multi-layered approach highlighting the economic, social, and environmental impacts coal has had to date and the implications of a transition on communities. Sections 2, 3 and 4 discuss the…
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Friday, 24 February 2023

South Africa’s New Energy Vehicle Transitional Roadmap: The Route to the White Paper

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation naamsa | The Automotive Business Council ; TIPS B&M Analysts
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa’s New Energy Vehicle Transitional Roadmap - Thought Leader Discussion Document: The Route to the White Paper naamsa | The Automotive Business Council has released its electric vehicles strategy, which calls for clear signals from government.  Dowload a copy of read online:  The report builds directly on work by Trade…
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Monday, 05 December 2022

People's Voices: Participatory justice for a just transition in South Africa

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS and UK PACT
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS), Muhammed Patel (TIPS) and Peta Wolpe (Independent).
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The just transition agenda aims at ensuring that vulnerable stakeholders are not negatively impacted by the transition, but are better off through it. Three key principles underpin the just transition agenda in South Africa. Distributive justice aims to address the direct impacts of the transition, such as the loss of employment and livelihood. Restorative…
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Monday, 07 November 2022

Research to support the future of a tagging system for just transition financial flows

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The purpose of this paper is to consider how the multiple projects, programmes, measures, initiatives and investments that have been proposed to support a just transition for affected workers and communities in South Africa can be used to inform i) thinking about appropriate context specific codification and tagging; and ii)…
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Sunday, 16 October 2022

Insights into the Wind Energy value chain in South Africa

Overall the push for more electricity generation, particularly renewable energy generation, is likely to result in a significant increase in Wind Energy projects across the country. This is turn will drive demand for components and services needed for development and operations of wind plants. Given  this context, and to add…
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Sunday, 16 October 2022

Insights into the Solar Photovoltaic manufacturing value chain in South Africa

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS and WWF South Africa
  • Author(s) Kate Rivett-Carnac
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The push for more electricity generation, particularly renewable energy generation, is likely to result in a significant increase in Solar PV projects across the country. This is turn will drive demand for the components and services. Given this context, and to add to the existing body of knowledge on the…
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Sunday, 16 October 2022

The state of research on renewable energy value chains in South Africa: Firms and employment characteristics

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS and WWF South Africa
  • Author(s) Kate Rivett-Carnac
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Presidential electricity plan announced in July 2022, which is set to relax regulations for private generators and double the size of Bid Window 6 of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme, is intended to drive more renewable energy uptake. This should in turn lead to an increase…
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Thursday, 11 August 2022

Designing climate-compatible industrial strategies for South Africa: The textiles value chain

  • Year 2022
  • Author(s) Nicola Jenkin (Pinpoint Sustainability), Elize Hattingh (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This report delves into the environmental sustainability of South Africa’s textile value chain, with a focus on the manufacturing components of the value chain. The aim is to inform the sector’s path towards climate compatibility. It provides a description of, and introduction to, South Africa’s textiles value chain, with an…
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Tuesday, 19 July 2022

The just transition for the refining and logistics sectors of the South African liquid fuels industry value chain

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS and WWF South Africa
  • Author(s) D.W. Wright
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Decarbonisation efforts in South Africa have focused on Eskom electricity generation and Sasol petrochemical production. However, given the absolute CO2 emissions associated with these operations, as pressure increases to decarbonise all sectors of the economy to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5⁰C by 2050, it will also be necessary…
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Sunday, 19 June 2022

Local government toolbox for a just energy transition in South Africa

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS and Just Urban Transitions
  • Author(s) Lauren Hermanus (Adapt), Gaylor Montmasson- Clair (TIPS), Muhammed Patel (TIPS) and Peta Wolpe (Independent).
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Improving the governance of the transition to a a low-emissions economy, across spheres of government and sectors, means local risks and opportunities must be foregrounded. In addition, the local government toolbox for advancing a just transition – the policies, regulations, functions and processes – must be characterised and interrogated even as these…
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Sunday, 19 June 2022

Beyond coal: opportunities to diversify the economies of Emalahleni and Steve Tshwete local municipalities

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS and Just Urban Transitions
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS), Lauren Hermanus (Adapt), Muhammed Patel (TIPS) and Peta Wolpe (Independent).
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The report unpacks the historical trajectory of coal-dependent economies in Mpumalanga and charts possible futures by analysing potential economic opportunities. It covers the past and present economic structure of coal-based municipalities in South Africa, and unpacks existing assets and liabilities. It then looks forward by diving into possible economic activities that could provide…
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Tuesday, 26 April 2022

A Just Transition finance roadmap for South Africa: A first iteration

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Sandy Lowitt , Itumeleng Mokoena (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
A just transition finance roadmap aims to articulate a new end vision for the financial ecosystem which perfectly aligns lending and investment actions to idealised government environmental and social policies which support a net zero economy. Once a final vision is articulated, the roadmap provides routes and  signposts to arrive…
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Monday, 28 February 2022

Exploring alternative options for coal truckers in a biomass supply chain

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS and WWF South Africa
  • Author(s) Farai Chireshe and Tjasa Bole-Rentel (WWF South Africa)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The potential for biomass supply chains to provide alternative employment opportunities for people currently employed in coal trucking is vast. Side tipper trucker jobs are a low-hanging fruit as they are used both for the transportation of coal and the largest source of sustainable biomass in South Africa, namely invasive…
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Thursday, 20 January 2022

Mitigation options for South Africa's petrochemical value chain

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Muhammed Patel
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This paper seeks to add to the discourse on climate change mitigation in the petrochemical industry in South Africa, through a broad evaluation of the mitigation interventions available. For the purposes of the analysis, the scope is confined to the base and performance chemicals that are produced from the petrochemicals…
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Wednesday, 05 January 2022

Technical Report No. 1: A Review of local and international policy debates

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS for the Presidential Climate Commission
  • Author(s) Muhammed Patel (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is a multi-stakeholder body established by the President of the Republic of South Africa to advise on the country’s climate change response and pathways to a low-carbon climate-resilient economy and society.  TIPS research for the PCC included the technical report: Technical Report No. 1: A…
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Wednesday, 05 January 2022

Governance and the Just Transition

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS for the Presidential Climate Commission
  • Author(s) Neva Makgetla (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is a multi-stakeholder body established by the President of the Republic of South Africa to advise on the country’s climate change response and pathways to a low-carbon climate-resilient economy and society.  TIPS research for the PCC included the technical report: Technical Report No. 1: A…
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Wednesday, 05 January 2022

The Just Transition in coal

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS for the Presidential Climate Commission
  • Author(s) Neva Makgetla (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is a multi-stakeholder body established by the President of the Republic of South Africa to advise on the country’s climate change response and pathways to a low-carbon climate-resilient economy and society.  TIPS research for the PCC included the technical report: Technical Report No. 1: A…
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Thursday, 18 November 2021

Policy primers for a South African Just Transition framework

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS for the Presidential Climate Commission
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is a multi-stakeholder body established by the President of the Republic of South Africa to advise on the country’s climate change response and pathways to a low-carbon climate-resilient economy and society.  TIPS research for the PCC included the technical report: Technical Report No. 1: A…
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Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Unemployment and sustainable livelihoods: Just Transition interventions in the face of inequality

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS for the Presidential Climate Commission
  • Author(s) Nokwanda Maseko
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is a multi-stakeholder body established by the President of the Republic of South Africa to advise on the country’s climate change response and pathways to a low-carbon climate-resilient economy and society.  TIPS research for the PCC included the technical report: Technical Report No. 1: A…
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Wednesday, 10 November 2021

Finance and the Just Transition

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS for the Presidential Climate Commission
  • Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is a multi-stakeholder body established by the President of the Republic of South Africa to advise on the country’s climate change response and pathways to a low-carbon climate-resilient economy and society.  The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is a multi-stakeholder body established by the President of…
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Wednesday, 03 November 2021

The European Green Deal: Context, challenges and opportunities for South African SMEs operating in the green economy

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS, tralac, Trade Advisory
  • Author(s) TIPS, tralac, Trade Advisory
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The European Green Deal (EGD) is a is a set of policy initiatives by the European Commission with the overarching aim of making Europe climate neutral by 2050. These policy initiatives aim to make all sectors of the European Union’s economy fit to contribute to the European Union reaching its…
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Tuesday, 10 August 2021

Toward a contribution to a just transition finance roadmap in South Africa

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Sandy Lowitt (TIPS)
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This working paper begins the process of framing a just transition narrative in the context of the South African financial system. It provides a brief overview of the current financial system in South Africa focusing on the structural fit of the finance system to the real economy, specifically in relation…
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Monday, 05 July 2021

A policy toolbox for just transitions

  • Year 2021
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
While the concept of a just transition dates back half a century, only recently has it entered the mainstream discourse. Its scope and application remain a source of debates and disagreements, with the term being already co-opted by various parties. The policy interventions required to effect and finance a just…
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Friday, 12 February 2021

Green hydrogen: A potential export commodity in a new global marketplace

  • Year 2020
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Muhammed Patel
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This case study focuses specifically on the emerging export opportunities for South Africa in the development of green hydrogen. This refers to hydrogen that is produced through the process of electrolysis that is combined with a renewable energy source of power. While green hydrogen development has gone through a number…
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