African nations have differing energy mixes and varying economic and social realities. Some Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) have emerged in recent years as vehicles for developed country finance and technical assistance to accelerate decarbonisation of certain coal, oil and gas-dependent economies- including for South Africa (2021) and Senegal (2023). But the US decision this year to withdraw generally from global climate action including support for JETPs has cast a cloud over prospects for rapid progress and expansion of such initiatives to other African economies.
While such volatile geo-political shifts and uncertainties highlight the need for decentralised, locally produced renewable energy for Africa, there remains wide support for the UNFCCC multilateral process and for countries to produce ambitious updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) plans prior to COP30, including both home-grown commitment and just transition plans which can attract wider investment. This webinar will discuss dissect the challenges and areas of success in the negotiation and implementation of Senegal and South Africa’s JETP, and assess what can be done to ensure just transitions remain viable in an ever-changing world order.
- What is the state of implementation of existing JETPs? How are JETPs conjugated with new oil and gas discoveries, like in Senegal?
- How will the increasing competitiveness of the global order and cuts in Western overseas funding affect developed countries’ commitment to just energy transitions in developing countries?
- Are new JETPs likely to be adopted at COP30? What stands in the way of a JETP scale-up across Africa?
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Read the communiqué for the Africa Programme’s just energy transitions webinar series.
