Fostering the just energy transition amid competing discourses of coal and renewable energy in South Africa
南アフリカにおける公正なエネルギー移行の促進：石炭と再生可能エネルギーの対立する言説の中で (AI 翻訳)
Fortunate Maponya, Tlou Ramoroka, Ngoako J. Mokoele
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日本語
南アフリカの石炭依存経済から低炭素経済への公正なエネルギー移行（JET）を検討。系統的文献レビューにより、石炭支持派と再生可能エネルギー支持派の対立する言説を分析し、急進的な石炭廃止ではなく、段階的かつ慎重な移行を提言。政策の一貫性、多層的な調整、貯蔵システムへの投資、石炭労働者の再教育などを提案。
English
This paper examines South Africa's Just Energy Transition (JET) from a coal-dependent economy to a low-carbon one. Through a systematic literature review, it analyzes competing discourses between coal proponents and renewable energy advocates, arguing that the transition must be well-sequenced and judicious rather than precipitously abandoning coal. Recommendations include policy coherence, multilevel coordination, storage investments, and reskilling coal workers.
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📝 gxceed 編集解説 — Why this matters
日本のGX文脈において
日本でも石炭火力の段階的削減と雇用問題が議論されており、南アフリカの事例は日本の公正な移行政策に示唆を与える。特に、石炭依存地域の労働者再教育や政策調整の重要性は日本でも参考になる。
In the global GX context
This paper contributes to the global discourse on just transitions, particularly relevant for countries like Japan that are grappling with coal phase-out while ensuring energy security and social stability. It offers a balanced view that can inform policy design in other coal-dependent economies.
👥 読者別の含意
🔬研究者:Offers a conceptual framework for analyzing competing discourses in energy transitions, useful for comparative policy studies.
🏢実務担当者:Provides considerations for reskilling workers and coordinating policies in coal-dependent regions, applicable for corporate sustainability teams involved in just transition planning.
🏛政策担当者:Highlights the need for a sequenced transition, stakeholder engagement, and policy coherence to balance energy security and decarbonization.
📄 Abstract（原文）
South Africa’s economy is heavily reliant on coal-fired power, which contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; hence, it embraced the Just Energy Transition (JET) to realise a low-carbon economy. This ignited the emergence of competing discourses constituted of proponents of coal and advocates of renewable energy. Transforming a deeply entrenched coal-dependent energy system to renewables is not a straightforward endeavour. Thus, the JET in South Africa faces several obstacles, including political interference, financial constraints, high costs of renewables, and resistance from labour unions, among others. Coal proponents are resisting the JET under contestations that phasing coal out presents various socio-economic implications towards coal-dependent industries, communities, livelihoods and jobs, especially in provinces such as Mpumalanga and Limpopo. While renewable energy proponents are driven by the ambition to reduce GHG emissions, responding to climate change, with the promise of green industries and jobs. Through a systematic literature review, the paper examines competing discourses of the JET in the pursuit of harmonising them. The paper argues that it is important for South Africa to transition, however, not with precipitous haste. The paper recommends that the JET needs to be well-sequenced and judicious to foster energy diversification and readiness, rather than rapidly abandoning coal. This narrows the gap between the two competing discourses, protects energy security and socio-economic stability. The recommendations put forth include policy coherence, multilevel coordination, investments in storage systems, and means such as re-skilling labourers from the coal industry into the renewable energy sector to realise a genuinely just transition.
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