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Aligning South African energy and climate change mitigation policy

Author: Tyler, Emily Date: 2009 This paper considers the alignment of energy policy in South Africa with the Cabinet’s mitigation vision of a ‘peak, plateau and decline’ greenhouse gas emissions trajectory to 2050. First, the term ‘policy’ is defined as having a number of ... Read more
Beyond the baseline - large scale climate friendly development

Author: Howells, Mark ; House, Josh ; Laitner, John “Skip” Date: 2005 A deep impasse has emerged between industrialized and developing countries on the task of reducing carbon--the former arguing that the task is essential, and the latter putting a higher priority on development. The compromise, so far, has ... Read more c b
Capacity building in analytical tools for estimating and comparing costs and benefits of adaptation projects

Author: Nkomo, Jabavu C ; Sparks, Debbie ; Callaway, John M ; Hellmuth, Molly ; Louw, Daniel ; Gomez, Bernard E ; Jallow, Bubu P ; Njie, Momodou ; Droogers, Peter Date: 2005 The broad objective of AIACC project 47 was to develop the capacity to estimate and compare the benefits and costs of projects in natural resource sectors that reduce the expected damages from climate change in Southern and West Africa. There ... Read more
Clean energy and development for South Africa: Results, Report 3 of 3.

Author: Hughes, Alison ; Haw, Mary Date: 2007 The objective of this document is to report on the scenarios considered and compare the costs and social impacts using the sustainability indicators. The scenarios reported on are the energy efficiency improvements in the commercial, industrial, ... Read more
Clean energy and development for South Africa: Scenarios, Report 2 of 3

Author: Hughes, Alison ; Haw, Mary Date: 2007 This report is the second of three reports outlining sustainable development pathways for South Africa. It forms part of the reporting for the project entitled “Clean Energy and Development for South Africa” funded by the British Foreign ... Read more
Climate change mitigation negotiations, with an emphasis on options for developing countries

Author: Winkler, Harald Date: 2008 Climate change is one of the greatest threats to our planet and its people. Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) is called mitigation. Responding to the impacts of climate change is called adaptation. A certain amount of adaptation ... Read more
Climate variability, climate change and water resource strategies for small municipalities

Author: Mukheibir, P ; Sparks, D Date: 2005 In many parts of the world, variability in climatic conditions is already resulting in wide ranging impacts, especially on water resources and agriculture. Climate variability is already being observed to be increasing, although there remain ... Read more
Economic impacts of climate change in South Africa: A preliminary assessment of unmitigated damage costs

Author: Turpie, J ; Winkler, H ; Spalding-Fecher, R ; Midgley, G Date: Feb 2002 This study aimed to provide a preliminary desktop estimate of the economic impacts of climate change in South Africa, based on the findings of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Study for the South African Country Study on Climate Change (1999). ... Read more
Energy Modeling: A modelling input into the Long Term Mitigation Scenarios process

Author: Hughes, Alison ; Haw, Mary ; Winkler, Harald ; Marquard, Andrew ; Merven, Bruno Date: 2007 Emissions from energy supply and use constitute by far the largest part of South Africa’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Hence energy modeling is a key analytical basis for the information provided to the long-term mitigation scenarios ... Read more
Energy Sector Reform and the Poor: Energy Use and Supply: a Four Country Study: Botswana, Ghana, Honduras & Senegal (ESMAP)

Author: Prasad, Gisela Date: Mar 2006 The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) is a global technical assistance partnership administered by the World Bank and sponsored by bi-lateral official donors, since 1983. ESMAP's mission is to promote the role of energy in ... Read more
Framework for adaptation to climate change for the City of Cape Town - FAC4T (City of Cape Town)

Author: Mukheibir, Pierre ; Ziervogel, Gina Date: Aug 2006 The 20th century has seen the greatest warning in the past thousand years due to anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2001b). Climate models now predict that the atmosphere's temperature ... Read more
The impact of climate change on small municipal water resource management: The case of Bredasdorp, South Africa

Author: Mukheibir, Pierre Date: 2007 In response to the recent reports on climate change impacts, especially on the water supply sector, a methodology that incorporates climate change impacts in to water resource planning at small municipal level is proposed. The introduction ... Read more
Leveraging carbon revenue for poverty alleviation

Author: Atkins, Peter ; Prasad, Gisela Date: 2013 One of the intentions of the Kyoto Protocol and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) was to use markets to allow the developed countries to supplement their own greenhouse gas reduction efforts with carbon reductions made in developing ... Read more
Local water resource management strategies for adaptation to climate induced impacts in South Africa

Author: Mukheibir, Pierre Date: 2005 In the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the following key issues in relation to climate and water were presented (IPCC 2001): “Climate change will lead to an intensification of the global hydrological ... Read more
Long Term Mitigation Scenarios: Technical Appendix

Author: Energy Research Centre Date: 2007 Demands for heat, processing energy, irrigation, tractors, harvesters and other energy needs (all in Peta Joules) are met through various technologies and fuel sources. Technologies using liquid fossil fuels (tractors, harvesters and pumps ... Read more
Measuring the rebound effect of energy efficiency initiatives for the future: A South African case study

Author: Davis, Stephen ; Cohen, Brett ; Hughes, Alison ; Durbach, Ian ; Nyatsanza, Kudakwashe Date: 2011 The rebound effect is a phrase which was originally defined to refer to the extent to which energy efficiency improvements are lost due to subsequent behavioural changes. This report documents almost three years of research work that set out ... Read more
Non-energy Emissions - Industrial Processes: An input into the Long Term Mitigation Scenarios process, LTMS Input Report 3

Author: Kornelius, G ; Marquard, A ; Winkler, H Date: 2007 As part of the Long Term Management Scenarios exercise carried out by the Energy Research Centre at the University of Cape Town for the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, options for the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions ... Read more
The potential of electric vehicles to contribute to South Africa's greenhouse gas emissions targets and other developmental objectives: How appropriate is the investment in electric vehicles as a NAMA?

Author: Dane, Anthony Date: 2014 "Transport consumes 28% of final energy in South Africa, 97% of which is in liquid fuels, and subsequently contributes 13.1% of South Africa’s greenhouse gas(GHG)emissions. The sector is vital for economic development. As the demand for ... Read more
Production, inequality and poverty linkages in South Africa

Author: Ngepah, Nicholas Date: 2010 The Kuznets inequality-development hypothesis can be tested with time-series data rather than the cross-section analyses found in earlier literature. Single-country time-series analysis cannot be done without addressing endogeneity between ... Read more
Quantifying SD-PAMs: National energy models and international allocation models for climate change mitigation: South African case study. Energy Research Centre, University of Cape Town.

Author: Winkler, Harald ; Marquard, Andrew ; Manley, Jonathan ; Davis, Stephen ; Trikam, Ajay ; den Elzen, Michel ; Höhne, Niklas ; Witi, Jongikhaya Date: 2008 Sustainable development policies and measures (SD-PAMs) are an approach to stimulating action on climate change mitigation in developing countries. Instead of starting from explicit climate targets, the approach deliberately sets out to start ... Read more

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