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Presentations
A Framework For Financing Investments in A Just Transition - Sandy Lowit, TIPS Research Fellow
A Transition for Whom? - Anda David, Senior Researcher Agence Francaise de Development (AFD)
Research
Full Report with Annexures: A Just Transition Transaction Framework: A Framework for Financing Investments in a Just Transition
This report has been made possible by the support of the African Climate Foundation and the European Climate Foundation.
Media
TIPS sets out to create a South Africa-focused Just Transition Transaction Framework - Engineering News 21 August 2023
Launch
Opening - Gaylor Montmasson Clair, Senior Economist, TIPS
Welcome - by Shameela Soobramoney, CEO, National Business Initiative (NBI)
A Just Transition Transaction Framework: A First Iteration - Sandy Lowitt, Research Fellow, TIPS
Challenges and Questions faced by the Project Management Unit in the possible future allocation of JETP funding - Neil Cole, JEPT Project Management Unit
Insights on project and investment selection taking social outcomes into account - Anda David, Senior Researcher, AFD
Anglo American’s Approach to the Just Energy Transition - Hermien Botes Head of Sustainability Relations Anglo American
Presentations
A Framework For Financing Investments in A Just Transition - Sandy Lowit, TIPS Research Fellow
A Transition for Whom? - Anda David, Senior Researcher Agence Francaise de Development (AFD)
Research
Full Report with Annexures: A Just Transition Transaction Framework: A Framework for Financing Investments in a Just Transition
This report has been made possible by the support of the African Climate Foundation and the European Climate Foundation.
Background
The South African Just Transition Financing discourse has been dominated by issues of global north and local private sector fund mobilisation and the unlocking of existing funding commitments. More recently, researchers and decision makers have been thinking about the deployment of such funds (when and if) they begin to flow. Just Transition fund deployment will require decision making about capital allocation to projects and investments. In order to achieve this, decision-makers will need to have a method by which to test what will constitute a Just Transition Transaction and how to rank just transition transactions against each other.
The launch of TIPS’s research on a Just Transition Transaction Framework: A First Iteration introduced the content of the framework and the process for improving the framework overtime through learning by doing and evidence collection and analysis. The first iteration of the framework will be continuously improved through testing, evidence gathering and analysis and further iterations will be developed to increase acceptability and applicability with an evolving set of stakeholders. TIPS events bring together academics, policymakers, civil society organisations, workers, and practitioners to discuss important issues and share ideas on industrial policy.
About the speakers
Gaylor Montmasson-Clair is a Senior Economist at TIPS. He leads TIPS's work on sustainability and just transition. He is the Facilitator for the South African Renewable Energy Masterplan (SAREM), the industrialisation plan for South Africa’s renewable energy value chain. Gaylor is also a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg’s Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED).
Shameela Soobramoney is the CEO of the National Business Initiative (NBI), an independent coalition of the local and multinational businesses focusing on taking action to achieve social and environmental sustainability underpinned by good governance. She joined the NBI in 2023. She was previously the Chief Sustainability Officer of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (the JSE) As a sustainability specialist she has, inter alia, been a key contributor to the JSE’s work into climate change, the potential for a local market to trade in carbon credits and environment-related products, the development of a Green, Social and Sustainability bonds framework, impact investing, the JSE’s sustainability, innovation and CSI strategies as well as the annual sustainability investor briefing/showcase sessions.
Sandy Lowitt is a Research Fellow at TIPS. She has worked in the Provincial and National Government in matters related to Industrial Strategy and policy, as well as economic infrastructure projects such as the Gautrain. She is currently active in the Just Transition Finance space.
Neil Cole is Finance Manager at the JETP Project Management Unit. He has more than 20 years professional experience in the field of Public Finance and international financial relations. Between 2001 and 2013 he worked for the National Treasury of South Africa in senior management positions in the Budget Office and in the International Economic Policy divisions. While at the Treasury, Neil represented South Africa on the committees that drafted the Accra Agenda for Action and the Busan Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation. He currently teaches a course on public finance for social protection at the International Training Centre of the ILO. Neil joined the JETP Secretariat in July 2022. His undergraduate and post-graduate qualifications cover public administration/policy, politics.
Anda David is a senior researcher and the lead economist on inequality at the French Development Agency (AFD). She holds a PhD from Paris Dauphine University, specialising in development economics, with a focus on migration and labour markets. Her current research is centred on inequality and sustainability. Between 2004 and 2015, she regularly collaborated with various international organisations active on these issues such as OECD, ILO and World Bank. Anda David joined AFD’s research division in December 2015 and is currently the scientific coordinator of the AFD-EU Research Facility on Inequality. Since January 2021, she is based at the AFD regional bureau for Southern Africa in Johannesburg.
Hermien Botes is Head of Sustainability Engagement for Anglo American where she has worked for the past 15 years in various sustainability roles including human rights, strategy, ESG reporting and systems. Hermien’s current role involves engagement with civil society, human rights and two special projects – gender-based violence and the just energy transition. In late 2019, Hermien led the launch of Anglo American’s Living with Dignity programme, which includes a comprehensive suite of initiatives to tackle sexual and gender-based violence in mines and mining communities. Hermien was also a co-author of Anglo American’s Sustainable Mining Plan – now in its fifth year of implementation.
Just Transition Tagging Tool
Request for Proposal to Convert the TIPS Manual Just Transition Project Evaluation Tool into a Real Time, On-line Digital Tool
TIPS is seeking a service provider to automate the existing framework evaluation process using a real time, online digital tool. The aim of the project is that anyone can input their project’s details online and receive a real time answer of whether their project qualifies as a just transition project or not.
For more information about the bid and details of how to apply download PDF or click here.
Closing date for bids: 20 August 2024
Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (1st Iteration)*
To deliver just transition projects on the ground, South Africa needs to be able to ensure that just transition funding and financing starts flowing immediately and is credibly, consistently and transparently deployed. To facilitate this, TIPS has developed a tool using an evidence-based, iterative methodology which can tag (label) a project as: just transition, not just transition, or just transition plus.
A 1st iteration of the tool is presented in this paper.
*Note that the paper was previously called A Just Transition Transaction Framework: A Framework for Financing Investments in a Just Transition.
Download report or read online: Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (1st Iteration)
This report has been made possible by the support of the African Climate Foundation and the European Climate Foundation.
Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (1st Iteration): An Application to Real World Projects
In this paper the 1st iteration of the tool is tested against real world projects. The tool underperforms and a 2nd iteration is proposed.
Download report or read online: Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (1st Iteration): An Application to Real World Projects
This report has been made possible by the support of the African Climate Foundation and the European Climate Foundation.
Just Transition Project Tagging Tool (2st Iteration): A User's Guide
This paper provides a user’s guide to the tool’s 2nd iteration The guide allows all interested parties to apply the tool to potential just transition projects and see whether they would be tagged as just transition or not.
Download report or read online: Just Tansition Project Tagging Tool (2nd Iteration: A User's Guide
Launch: Just Transition Transaction Framework: A First Iteration - August 2023
Presentation
A Framework For Financing Investments in A Just Transition - Sandy Lowit, TIPS Research Fellow
Media
TIPS sets out to create a South Africa-focused Just Transition Transaction Framework - Engineering News 21 August 2023
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