Authors: Sonia Phalatse, Julia Taylor and Imraan Valodia
As is widely acknowledged and evidenced, climate change threatens food security and sovereignty; water availability, accessibility, and quality; health; and livelihoods. This paper expands on the conceptual linkages of a care-climate nexus, with the aim of supporting climate policy.
Authors: Somali Cerise, Sarah Cook, Katrina Lehmann-Grube, Julia Taylor, and Imraan Valodia
This paper asks what a gender just transition could and should look like, particularly in the global South. Based on an extensive review of conceptual and empirical literatures from a range of disciplinary perspectives, we examine how different approaches address – or ignore – gender dimensions of (in)justice in thinking about low-carbon transitions. We go on to offer a more expansive view of justice informed by perspectives drawn from feminist theory and combine this with the pillars of distributive, procedural, recognitive and restorative justice.
Authors: Aalia Cassim, Julia Taylor, Roderick Crompton, and Imraan Valodia
This paper discusses the de-risking approach and the investment-centred approach to an energy transition, and using the case study of South Africa, argues for the necessity of an investment-centred approach to achieve a transition which supports local development and energy security. In analysing the example of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers Procurement Programme (REI4P), the authors highlight important learnings for the energy transition, which provide a useful window into the wider carbon transition.
