The Energy Crisis and Sustainable Electricity: An Analysis of SADC’s role in the promotion of Climate Justice in the Regions’ Electricity Industry

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dc.contributor.authorKamurai, Rumbidzai Lindsay
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-18T12:08:02Z
dc.date.available2024-06-18T12:08:02Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionA research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Laws by Coursework and Research Report at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2022
dc.description.abstractLong having depended on fossil fuels to sustain its socio-economic aims, in the face of rolling blackouts and the emerging renewable energy mix the SADC region is under pressure to implement sustainable practises to meet electricity demands and ensure energy security. All in the hopes of attaining regional climate justice. This report aims to access the regions renewable energy and low carbon emitting alternative options as supported by SADC policy in order to understand how far these policies and potential can address the regions prevalent energy crisis. In so doing ,it outlines what an energy crisis is in the SADC context in order to more thoroughly evaluate SADC policies and projects implemented to meet this crisis. Having accessed the successes and failures of these, it endeavours to suggest possible ways forward in the context of the regions renewable energy potential. This report speaks to the role political will and overt nationalism have played in the regions failed energy policies, how current regional implementation is moving at too slow a pace to match socio-economic development and is thereby worsening the electricity crisis, that diversification of the renewable energy mix has been neglected and the fact that climate change must play a greater role in developing energy policies than it is currently, if climate justice is to be seriously attained. The impact of climate change on the region and its energy options is too great a factor to ignore and is used to back the use of regional SPV over the short-sightedness of hydro.
dc.description.submitterMM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.citationKamurai, Rumbidzai Lindsay. (2022). The Energy Crisis and Sustainable Electricity: An Analysis of SADC’s role in the promotion of Climate Justice in the Regions’ Electricity Industry [Master’s dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WireDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/38680
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/38680
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights© 2022 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.schoolSchool of Law
dc.subjectSADC
dc.subjectRenewable energy
dc.subjectEnergy Crisis
dc.subjectSustainable Electricity
dc.subjectClimate Justice
dc.subjectRegions’ Electricity Industry
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subject.otherSDG-7: Affordable and clean energy
dc.titleThe Energy Crisis and Sustainable Electricity: An Analysis of SADC’s role in the promotion of Climate Justice in the Regions’ Electricity Industry
dc.typeDissertation
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