June 2022 - A PRESIDENTIAL CLIMATE COMMISSION REPORT - A Framework for a Just

of the Republic of South Africa to (1) advise on the Workers, jobseekers, and community members have country’s climate change response and (2) support spoken passionately and articulately about the unfair- a just transition to a low-carbon climate-resilient ness of their current situations, the inequalities they economy and society. [...] changes will be difficult for some, particularly the work- ers and communities whose lives and livelihoods are How was the Just Transition tied to fossil fuel industries, as well as the women, the youth, and the poor, who are already disproportion- Framework Developed? ately bearing the brunt of South Africa’s hardships and The just transition framework builds on research, pol- triple challenges. [...] Indeed, the aim from prior consultation processes on the just transition, is a just transition: seizing the opportunities and including those facilitated by the National Planning managing the risks associated with climate change, Commission (NPC 2019) and the National Economic with an overarching goal of improving the lives and Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC 2020). [...] The Department of Trade, Industry and Com- all South Africans, in the context of increasing the petition (dtic) has developed a roadmap for the local ability to adapt to the adverse impacts of climate, production of electric vehicle and components in South fostering climate resilience, and reaching net-zero Africa (dtic 2021); the Department of Public Enter- greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, in li. [...] cant opportunities in the transition—to improve the well-being of the economy, where people live and work Clear and determined governance responses are nec- in meaningful and positive relationships with each essary to seize these opportunities and support a just other and the planet.