The overwhelming majority of sustained and transformative innovations relate to governance, process and social values for South Africa – namely, the need to foster increased private sector investment in energy infrastructure and to decouple the concepts of stunted economic development and decarbonisation of energy systems. [...] Pockets of the future in the present The following section of the workshop focused on pockets of the future in the present (also termed seeds) with respect to South Africa’s geopolitical-energy nexus. [...] The transportation system is multifaceted, and while the direct benefits relate to reduced emissions and greenhouse gases, the indirect benefits include the improvement of the quality of life of citizens. [...] • Infrastructure resilience and adaptability: The ageing infrastructure is unable to support the increasing energy demand and is unable to support an increasing energy mix (traditional coal and nuclear) and now transitioning to a centralised energy mix. [...] • Energy affordability and cost-of-living crisis: The rising global demand for energy due to the decrease in fossil fuel subsidies, increase in fossil fuel prices due to scarcity issues, increase in electricity costs due to inflation and need for large-scale infrastructure energy projects, and extreme heat or cold due to climate change leads to an energy affordability crisis and the deepening of t.
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