News

  • INTERVIEW: Dr Hayley Clements

    Dr Hayley Clements was interviewed on Radio Pulpit to discuss winning the inaugural Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant, for her research titled: “Quantifying the Biodiversity Planetary Boundary for Africa.”

  • Blockchain is decrypting Africa’s future in renewables

    Just a few years ago, the notion of a consumer-driven energy sector was unheard of, much less within the African context. Fast-forward to 2019, and blockchain is opening a new energy chapter, driven by smart technologies.

  • PODCAST: Large-scale renewables = large-scale local benefits?

    Listen to an interview with Holle Wlokas discussing the TENTRANS project and the ability of large-scale renewables to deliver local benefits.

  • Research assistant position: TENTRANS

    This research project examines how South Africa's Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme interacts with local industrial development and local institutional change.

  • Reflection on social-ecological systems from the GRIM workshop 2019

    Systems thinking is the idea that all operational systems are intertwined and are a product of its parts, thus function with inextricable interdependency.

  • Meet Amanda October

    Migrating and crossing the grass literally from the cellar to the Stables into a culture shock of newness has kept life very interesting and ensured no lack of new challenges.

  • Prof Reinette Biggs delivers her inaugural lecture

    Prof Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, co-chair of the CST, delivered her inaugural lecture with the title Resilience: An approach to navigating towards more sustainable futures in the Anthropocene, on 5 August 2019.

  • CST Researcher secures trilateral chair

    A prominent researcher at the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at Stellenbosch University (SU), associate professor Josephine Kaviti Musango, was recognized for her research when she was awarded one of only two research chairs in South Africa by a trilateral research chair initiative.

  • Reaching the potential of renewable energy and development

    The energy transition is bringing renewable energy in increased speed, but how do we make sure the transition brings development to communities?