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12 December 2025

Border Carbon Adjustments Research: Strategic Pathways to Mitigate Adverse Impacts

This report outlines targeted entry points to be considered for mitigating adverse impacts associated with the rise of Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs), with a particular focus on managing their effects in South Africa. The proposed interventions aim to safeguard and enhance South Africa’s access to export markets while supporting the…
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Published in Climate Change
20 June 2024

TIPS South Africa's Iron, Steel and Aluminium Industries Readiness to Respond to CBAM

  • Year 2024
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Seutame Maimele
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) entered its transition period on 1 October 2023, with the first CBAM report for the fourth quarter of 2023 submitted on 29 February 2024. Key industries most affected in South Africa are iron, steel and aluminium. The transition period will run for…
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Published in Climate Change
16 February 2024

The European Green Deal (EGD) and its implications for African Trade

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Seutame Maimele
  • Countries and Regions Africa
The European Green Deal (EGD) is a set of policy initiatives by the European Union (EU) with the overarching aim of making Europe the first continent to reach climate neutrality by 2050. The purpose of this study is to analyse the implications of the EGD on African trade. The objectives include…
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29 January 2024

Global Perspectives on the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Dominic Ramos
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
This Working Paper offers an overview of how governments in the Global South are responding to the EU CBAM, in contrast to responses from developed nations. It examines the background and essential measures of CBAM in relation to the reactions of major transnational groupings and the effects of CBAM on…
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10 August 2023

Responding to the European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM): South Africa's vulnerability and responses

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Seutame Maimele
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
CBAM is a key policy tool that forms part of the European Green Deal (EGD) to reduce net GHG emissions across Europe and abroad. Within this context, CBAM can be defined as a carbon border tax on embedded GHG emissions of carbon-intensive products imported into the EU. The main intent…
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25 April 2023

Climate change and trade risk: South Africa's trade with the United States of America

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Kiara Muthusame, Seutame Maimele
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The United States of America (USA) is South Africa’s second largest single trade partner after China, having imported US$13 billion (about R192 billion) worth of goods in 2021. South Africa’s top five exports to the USA are platinum, motor vehicles, miscellaneous chemical products (some chemicals are used to create monomers and polymers for…
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19 April 2023

South Africa's aluminium value chain and climate change compatibility

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Lerato Monaisa, Gaylor Montmasson-Clair
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
Aluminium is the most used non-ferrous metal worldwide. Its multiple properties (lightweight, non-corrosive, high thermal and electrical conductivity, low density, non-toxic, non-magnetic) make it a versatile multiuse metal. Aluminium is used in various sectors, most prominently in transport, construction, consumer goods, packaging and machinery and equipment. The production of primary aluminium…
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Published in Climate Change
22 March 2023

A tale of life and death: The coal value chain's impacts on local communities in South Africa

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS
  • Author(s) Lerato Monaisa Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS)
This working paper unpacks the impacts of a transition away from coal on affected communities in South Africa. It takes a multi-layered approach highlighting the economic, social, and environmental impacts coal has had to date and the implications of a transition on communities. Sections 2, 3 and 4 discuss the…
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24 February 2023

South Africa’s New Energy Vehicle Transitional Roadmap: The Route to the White Paper

  • Year 2023
  • Organisation naamsa | The Automotive Business Council ; TIPS B&M Analysts
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
South Africa’s New Energy Vehicle Transitional Roadmap - Thought Leader Discussion Document: The Route to the White Paper naamsa | The Automotive Business Council has released its electric vehicles strategy, which calls for clear signals from government.  Dowload a copy of read online:  The report builds directly on work by Trade…
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Published in Climate Change
05 December 2022

People's Voices: Participatory justice for a just transition in South Africa

  • Year 2022
  • Organisation TIPS and UK PACT
  • Author(s) Gaylor Montmasson-Clair (TIPS), Muhammed Patel (TIPS) and Peta Wolpe (Independent).
  • Countries and Regions South Africa
The just transition agenda aims at ensuring that vulnerable stakeholders are not negatively impacted by the transition, but are better off through it. Three key principles underpin the just transition agenda in South Africa. Distributive justice aims to address the direct impacts of the transition, such as the loss of employment and livelihood. Restorative…
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