Jesse Burton

Planning and implementing just transitions: opportunities for South-South cooperation This brief examines how South-South cooperation may help advance planning and implementing just transitions.

How can #SouthSouthCooperation advance just transitions and complement #JETPs?

See new work by SEI’s Elisa Around & Claudia Strambo; @jesseburton.bsky.social with @energyuct.bsky.social; & Felipe Corral with @tuberlin.bsky.social & POLEN Transiciones Justas, & @Trajects.bsky.social.

Meeting in Panama, leaders celebrate Latin America’s strategic position in the global transition to clean electricity With UN’s global climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon on the horizon, governments, companies and sustainable development experts meet to align regional opportunities for the energy transition in LAC...

🌎Tomorrow in Panama, during Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week, ministers, diplomats & climate leaders will gather to drive a just #EnergyTransition.

At the event, co-hosted by E3G, the @pastcoal.bsky.social will welcome a new Latin American govt ⚡

politicaporinteiro.org/2025/05/19/m...

Join this fascinating webinar (starting in 45 min) presenting polling of business leaders across 15 major economies:
Powering up: Business perspectives on shifting to renewable electricity

📅 22 April 2025
🕙 11:00 AM (SAST)
💬 Includes audience Q&A

📢 Don’t miss next week’s webinar

What do business execs across 15 countries think about the move to renewable electricity?

🗓️ 22 April | 10:00 BST

🔗 Register here: e3g-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

@wemeanbusiness.bsky.social @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social

About Us - Inspire About Us The Initiative for Social Performance in Renewable Energy (INSPIRE) aims to advance the field of social performance in South Africa’s renewable energy sector, with the wider goal of becoming ...

In South Africa, local communities own equity through "community trusts" - so not direct payments, but community governance of expenditure. see inspire-excellence.net/about-us/ for more. Ireland also has a payment scheme, as does Aust

thanks so much :D this is a big issue here in SA as we finalise our 2025 IRP, with much turning on cost assumptions for SMRs

please can you share the source? gracias!

interesting, what is the absolute reduction in TWh in coal/year? interesting to have real world comparators for countries such as South Africa

i enjoyed this but i take umbrage with the ahistorical starting point that says "traditional defenders of a rules-based world order such as the United States". The lawless-based order might be a better phrase to capture the behaviours of the "rules-based" order, see www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

YouTube video by Green Day Italy Billie Joe Armstrong disses Elon Musk: "The US can have Elon, but South Africa can have Green Day"🔥

"Because the US can have Elon, but South Africa can have Green Daaaay" thanks @greendayofficial.bsky.social it's a more than fair trade - please stay! www.youtube.com/watch?v=56wC...

No one can be left behind in the clean energy transition.

Especially not an entire continent.

Africa holds 60% of the world’s best solar resources and wants to increase renewables fivefold by 2030.

But the continent gets less than 2% of global clean energy investments.

This must change.

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-whi...

These toxic assets get spun out - eg into pure play coal companies as with Anglo's coal assets in South Africa. Result - locked in companies with their backs against the wall & a dependence on fossils. I'd prefer "responsible closure" by those firms with the means to do it properly, not divestment.

please do! or build on stephen's? bsky is heavily skewed to the US and Europe. i miss my old global south twitter

similarly, do communities in towns where steel manufacturing is a large employer agree that green hydrogen is not an important option for their sector? GH2 has domestic positives for heavy industry & jobs, but is expensive. Sometimes we need to take a bigger view than only local issues on transition

I wonder if local communities and workers in areas that depend on automotive manufacturing would agree with this view? The reason automotives is in there is because it employs many people, and municipalities in the eastern cape are dependent on those jobs and activities too.

ah thank you! 😄

I am currently visiting SEI Latin America to exchange on lessons from South Africa's JETP, just transition planning, and to explore south-south cooperation on energy, as part of @trajects.bsky.social global climate centre. Join us at UNAL on Thursday at 930am for a Colombia-South Africa discussion!

She's not on Bsky but Holle Wlokas (and organisation called Inspire), based in South Africa have worked extensively on community ownership structures for RE under South Africa's auction programme (lots of lessons on how not to do things...), also some work looking at lessons from mining trusts in SA

oxbridge is the world

I must apologise to Australia - I arrived this week from South Africa and now you also have coal plants falling over and loadshedding. If it is any consolation (it isn't), South Africa has been at stage 6 loadshedding (6GW, up to 12 hours per day without power) in the last few days

Please share widely - my team at the University of Cape Town is hiring for several roles working on the intersection of energy and climate change modelling and policy

The Energy Systems Research group is hiring! We have three posts for energy systems modellers and policy analysts. For more information on junior researcher roles: www.linkedin.com/posts/harro-... and on the senior role: www.linkedin.com/posts/harro-... Applications close 12 Jan 2024

pretty clear why they want all the attention on Al-Jaber

JOIN US if you like energy, economics, development and are full of cop FOMO! Tomorrow, 5pm, at the Nelson Mandela School of Governance and @energyuct.bsky.social.

Rich fossil fuel exporters need to take the lead & show that fossil-free development is achievable. The numbers in this report are 🤯: exported emissions from Norway, Australia, Canada and the USA account for 11% of global emissions and projected extraction will chow 11% of remaining CO2 budget.

do you need someone to come and give some guest lectures or some such on energy transition in a developing country...?

Local coverage of this year's Emission Gap Report highlights risks of too much fossil fuel invesment and issues of inequality in emissions between and within countries. www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2023...

Greetings energy folks - I'm currently in Australia (various cities) for a few weeks and keen to meet and discuss energy with fellow nerds. Anything related to coal, just transition, and power system operations will make my heart beat faster. Let me know if you're around and keen to meet!