CLIMATE CRISES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA 2025

Anton Cartwright, economist, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town

Friday 24 January 1.00 pm COURSE FEES R110; Staff and students R55

This lecture will provide an update on the impacts of climate change for South Africa based on the most recent scientific assessments, as well as the responses from government, businesses and households.

 

Recommended reading

Johnston, P. et al. 2024. Climate Change Impacts in South Africa: what climate change means for a country and its people. Cape Town: University of Cape Town.

Presidential Climate Commission. 2022. A Framework for a Just Transition in South Africa. https://pccommissionflow.imgix.net/uploads/images/A-Just-Transition-Framework-for-South-Africa-2022. pdf

Cartwright, A. et al. 2022. Pathways for a Just Urban Transition in South Africa: Report commissioned by the World Bank and the African Centre for Cities. https://pccommissionflow.imgix.net/uploads/images/Agenda-Item-6-JUT-Final-Report.pdf

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Anton Cartwright is an independent economist whose work focuses on the interactions between ecological degradation and human well-being. Formerly on staff at UCT’s African Centre for Cities (ACC), he remains a research associate at ACC and a Fellow of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He was a Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Special Report on 1.5C of Warming in 2018 and has contributed to South Africa’s Just Transition programme and a Contributing Author to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report.