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2023: A deepening energy crisis or a turning point?
As we enter 2023, South Africa's energy system is in dire straits with a lack of certainty about leadership at state-owned utility Eskom and conflicting policies on how to address the energy crisis. Despite this, South Africa's Investment Plan for the Just Energy Transition, presented at COP27, has received global attention as a pioneering breakthrough in the energy transition towards net zero by 2050.
2022 NRF Early Researchers Colloquium on Energy Transitions in the Global South
On the 24th of November 2022, the CST hosted an Early Career Researchers colloquium - a day of networking and knowledge sharing on research related to energy transitions in the global South. The event was made possible through funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) and hosted by the Energy Transitions research team at the CST.
PGDip 2022 End of Year Student Review
On the 23rd and 24th of November, the CST held its second annual PGDip End of Year Student Review online and in-person, respectively.
CST researcher Nina Callaghan’s Personal Reflections on COP27, Sharm El Shaikh, Egypt
Sinai has been the place of revelations in the Abrahamic traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, divine messages coming to the prophets Elijah, Moses and Muhammed. It is an austere landscape of [...]
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 this model [...]
