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SA-TIED work stream 5: Climate and energy as drivers of change
The unavoidable warming and potential substantial departures from prevailing weather patterns associated with climate change are likely to be major drivers of migration, agriculture, and international trade in Southern Africa, and globally. The...
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A tale of two cities: Can electricity supply save lives without deepening divides?
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Joshua Budlender
September 2024
On 25 May 2023, three-year-old Neyamiah James died after extended electricity outages in Johannesburg caused her home oxygen machine to run out of...
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Sustainable Energy
Conference on Climate Change and Development Policy - Parallel 3.2
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The African Energy Futures project - an interview with Channing Arndt
Channing Arndt, in this interview, provides an introduction and overview into the project on 'African Energy Futures'. Africa is well endowed with sun, wind and hydropower – but these potential resources are unevenly distributed. This could, however...
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Modelling Potential African Energy Futures - an interview with Yohannes Gebretsadik
Yohannes Gebretsadik (MIT) is working on an approach to modelling which will combine water resource modelling with an energy model and an economic model. Climate change is now widely recognized as a major threat and it is essential to evaluate how...
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