SA’s energy transition plan doesn’t match reality, say academics
Country’s just transition framework criticised for not properly considering existing political and economic realities
Several academics have criticised the framework that is being developed to guide SA’s transition from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy for being unrealistic since it ignored many of the institutional and structural challenges facing the country.
A group of academics from the Academy of Science of SA (ASSAf) also expressed concern that the just transition framework, which is being developed by the Presidential Climate Commission, would be a victim of the same fate as other developmental plans for SA such as the National Development Plan and get stuck in the planning phase without ever being fully implemented...
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