Development Cooperation & SDGs: What’s at Stake?
As the second year of the pandemic grinds on and vaccination rates in parts of the developing world, especially Africa, remain low, impacting on the ability of economies and households to recover strongly, the difficulty of attaining the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 becomes even more acute.
Synchronising Nuclear Governance in SADC Member States Through Regional Cooperation
SADC member states have adopted different approaches to nuclear energy and radioactive applications.
Financing Adaptation in Africa: The Key to Sustainable Development?
Climate change in Africa is an existential crisis – heightened climate impacts on food security, health, security and economic livelihoods affect the continent’s ability to achieve sustainable development.
Accelerating Private Sector Climate Finance in Africa
Considerable volumes of finance, from both the private and the public sector, are necessary to meet the anticipated mitigation and adaptation needs of Africa.
Walking with the Bear? Russia and the A3 in the UN Security Council
The UN Security Council (UNSC) has faced some of its most significant challenges in recent years.
A New South African Climate Diplomacy: G7, G20 and Beyond
South Africa has played an important role in global climate negotiations, but this can be further scaled up to respond more directly to the imperative of a more geostrategic and mainstream economic framing of climate diplomacy, and debates around how to ‘build back better’ in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COP26: Transitioning to a green hydrogen economy in the spotlight
Moving rapidly towards a green hydrogen economy would help South Africa secure its domestic energy supply and drive economic growth through the export of green hydrogen powerfuels and technology to European and Asian markets. Solid investments in a post-pandemic green recovery through renewable energy generation and policy regulation could accelerate South Africa’s economic recovery.
An African Climate Finance Agenda for COP26
The climate finance landscape is both wide and deep and is driven by a number of inter-related and complex considerations.
Why Regional Value Chains in Africa Need to go Digital
After years of de-industrialisation and limited intra-regional trade, which have been serious constraints to inclusive growth and development, African countries have an opportunity to leverage the potential of the African Continental Free Trade Area to accelerate their industrialisation efforts and greatly improve their economic well-being.
Time for South Africa to strongly consider internet voting
South Africa (SA), like the rest of the democratic world, faces the dilemma of having to conduct an election during a global pandemic.