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The importance of transition finance and all eyes on SA’s JET-IP: CST researchers’ insights from COP27.
CST researchers Wendy McCallum and Nina Callaghan share their reflections from COP27, hosted in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt from 6 November until 18 November 2022.
COP27 Launch of the IPOS Coalition: Scientific Institutions coming together for Ocean Sustainability
The ocean is increasingly recognized as being inextricably interwoven with climate, biodiversity and human well-being. This emerging recognition has highlighted the need for a coordinated approach to support policy and governance of the ocean system as a whole.
13th International Sustainability Transitions Conference (IST) – November 21 to 25, 2022
For IST2022 Stellenbosch University, Monash University, and Georgetown University will partner to create a week with a truly global experience that involves both online and in-person activities, in which conference participants will virtually travel through three different time zones and continents, with the opportunity to meet in person either in South Africa, Australia, or the United States of America.
POSITION OFFERED: Communications Manager
The Centre for Sustainability Transitions seeks to appoint a communications manager with a good understanding of the field of sustainability to develop and implement a strategy to communicate CST research activities to a variety of target audiences, aimed at building CST's standing as a leading institution.
South Africa’s wildlife ranches can offer solutions to Africa’s growing conservation challenges
Zebras stand in a ranch in South Africa. Francois Louw/Shutterstock Designated protected areas for wildlife – such as national parks – are the world’s principal conservation strategy. But [...]
CST Co-director elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of South Africa
The Royal Society of South Africa is the Republic’s premier multi-disciplinary scientific organization. For a century, the Society has consistently played the leading role in being the public face of South African science.
As SA teeters on the brink of full-blown energy disaster, it’s vital the right decisions are made – now
Ours is a highly complex energy system that has been pushed to extremes. If it starts to collapse, it will be much harder to steer the energy transition in the right direction. We missed three crucial decision points — in 1999, 2015-17 and 2019. Let’s learn from these.
Call for abstracts: 5th National Global Change Conference 2023
The University of the Free State (UFS), in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Research Foundation (NRF), invites abstract submissions for the GCC5, which will be held on the UFS Bloemfontein Campus [...]
CST researchers honoured at Research Excellence Awards
Congratulations to CST Co-Director Prof Mark Swilling and research fellow Dr. Julia van Velden who were honoured for their outstanding contributions at Stellenbosch University (SU)'s Research Excellence Award ceremony held [...]
