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Climate governance

Climate governance is the diplomacy, mechanisms and response measures "aimed at steering social systems towards preventing, mitigating or adapting to the risks posed by climate change"

Feature melting icebergs
19 August 2024

Policy brief - Empowering Africa: Advancing climate resilience and sustainability on the Continent

WSG Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr Kennedy Manduna contributed to this policy brief with his chapter on why...
Feature solar
10 January 2024

Green lawfare imperils just transition

By undermining the country’s economic sovereignty, it is leaving SA hostage to external forces and...
Candle Load Shedding
29 November 2023

Load shedding as a result of failures at the political-technological interface

In effective developmental states, technocrats are ‘embedded’ in the political system with...
04 April 2023

Green energy: South Africa’s transition plan must be careful not to deepen inequality

Since the UN Climate Change Agreement was signed by 196 nations in December 2015, many countries...
17 April 2018

Move from disaster response to risk reduction

The Wits School of Governance teamed up with the Gauteng Provincial Disaster Management Centre to...