Women – Energy Transition https://energytransition.org The Global Energiewende Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:08:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Can South Africa’s Just Transition close the Energy Sectors Gender Gap? https://energytransition.org/2023/04/can-south-africas-just-transition-close-the-energy-sectors-gender-gap/ https://energytransition.org/2023/04/can-south-africas-just-transition-close-the-energy-sectors-gender-gap/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:00:51 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=28121 South Africa’s energy transition passed significant milestones at the last two COPs (Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC). Over the last two years, a framework for a just transition was developed and adopted by government, considering the inclusion of groups left behind by the energy industry. Women in particular face numerous challenges in the energy sector: while they fail to profit from...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2023/04/can-south-africas-just-transition-close-the-energy-sectors-gender-gap/feed/ 0 It’s the Women, stupid! https://energytransition.org/2022/07/its-the-women-stupid/ https://energytransition.org/2022/07/its-the-women-stupid/#respond Tue, 26 Jul 2022 10:00:09 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=26999 When writing about the energy transition, one generally forgets that it’s not always about hard facts and debating the best policy solution that reaches a desired outcome, but that it’s the people who make the transition – the people who make the story. Rececca Bertram tells such a story of three indigenous women from remote areas in Costa Rica who push for an energy transition thereby increasing...

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]]> https://energytransition.org/2022/07/its-the-women-stupid/feed/ 0 SA’s coronavirus recovery plan should consider value of women’s ‘invisible’ work https://energytransition.org/2020/06/sas-coronavirus-recovery-plan-should-consider-value-of-womens-invisible-work/ https://energytransition.org/2020/06/sas-coronavirus-recovery-plan-should-consider-value-of-womens-invisible-work/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2020 13:00:40 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=22499 The South African government still needs to drawing up a just transition plan that will support workers who are likely to lose their jobs as the country moves its economy away from dependence on carbon-emitting production, such as mining and downstream industries. But the coronavirus lockdown has shown the invisible contribution that women’s labour makes to the economy. Could the country’s...

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