A Presidential Climate Commission Report

▪ The motor industry (VWSA) and the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber confirm the risk of not manufacturing EVs for the export market and are concerned about the uptake of EVs in the local market in the absence of government incentives that would increase the affordability and therefore the accessibility of EVs in the domestic portion of their market. [...] Lephahale is still locked into coal dependency, and the municipality has not yet confronted the challenges of the of the just transition, such as what will happen to coal-based jobs, skills, and livelihoods, and what are the opportunities for alternate job and livelihood pathways arising from the transition? For these, and perhaps other reasons, Lephahale is one of the eight sites representative o. [...] This places the SDB residents, the municipality and the KwaZulu Natal province and its surrounds at the heart of the just transition questions facing South African society, such as what will happen to fuel and chemical industry-based jobs, skills, and livelihoods, and what are the opportunities for alternate job and livelihood pathways arising from the transition? For these, and perhaps other reas. [...] To prepare for the workshop, a PCC and OneWorld team visited SDB in February 2022 to obtain key insights, discuss the workshop representation and venue, and to understand the challenges and obstacles facing communities in the transition, and for the workshop itself. [...] The toll road was planned in the 1950s–1960s to integrate the Transkei region with the rest of the national highway network, the route planned in the late 1990s was to start at the WildCoast Sun and cross the Umgundlovu community land.