Name: Just SA
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Climate and Just Transition Finance

JUST SA is dedicated to advancing climate and just transition finance.

The JUST SA project is dedicated to advancing climate and just transition finance as part of South Africa’s just transition. Through a combination of capacity building, technical support, financial mediation and inclusive development initiatives, JUST SA aims to empower SMMEs, foster private sector collaboration, and ensure effective tracking and deployment of climate finance. The project brings together multiple partners to deliver a comprehensive suite of interventions that strengthen the ecosystem for economic diversification and drive sustainable, climate-aligned investments.

Project Highlights

JUST SA's secondment of a senior technical advisor to the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) has significantly contributed to the institution‘s ability to fulfil their mandate on the Just Transition. Through embedding a Climate Finance Advisor within the PCC Secretariat, JUST SA has bolstered the PCC’s evidence-based research capacity to track climate finance flows, with a strategic focus on supply and demand dynamics of the climate finance ecosystem domestically and internationally.

TIPS is updating the Just Transition Pipeline Builder which supports the development of robust, commercially viable just transition project pipelines by considering how financing, advisory services and capacity support mechanisms can best be offered, packaged and designed to address just transition originator challenges on the ground.

TIPS is developing a Just Transition Project Tagging Tool with the aim of updating the existing Just Transition Tagging Framework. By incorporating real-world data, this tool seeks to enhance the framework’s ability to consistently, accurately and credibly identify investments that qualify as just transition projects. The tool is designed to be used by everyone – from a large multi-national company to SMMEs to informal community groupings and is applicable across sectors and various lifecycles of a project.

Read more about the Tagging Tool here: Just Transition Finance Tool

NBI aims to enhance private sector participation by promoting engagement and supporting the implementation of transition pathways across key industries, to enable private sector involvement in the Just Transition in Mpumalanga. This includes convening an annual symposium focused on private sector networking and engagement, as well as facilitating the creation and distribution of tailor-made knowledge products related to Just Transition pathways to strategic audiences. Through NBI, JUST SA will support key industries in developing transition plans informed by these pathways. Efforts to promote private sector participation will also link businesses to investment opportunities and viable business cases, including initiatives led by women.

Results & Highlights

Key achievements during the secondment include the completion of the 2023 and 2025 Climate Finance Landscape Reports for South Africa, a Green Technologies Audit , which mapped the state of readiness of the technologies to support the Just Transition in South Africa. This study, published on the PCC website in October 2025, feeds into the PCC’s sectoral pathways for achieving South Africa’s 2030–2035 NDC targets and broader Just Transition goals, as well as broader work on adaption finance.
Additionally, the PCC completed important research on the implications of Border Carbon Adjustments (BCAs) for South Africa, also to be released in October 2025. This research addresses how global climate-trade dynamics, particularly BCAs, affect South Africa’s export competitiveness and industrial growth. It offers targeted recommendations to protect and expand market access while supporting the country’s transition to a low-carbon economy, emphasizing the need for strong institutional arrangements and broad awareness across government, industry, labour, and civil society.
Moreover, the PCC hosted a high-level Country Platform Business Meeting in April 2025 during the IMG-WB Spring Meetings in Washington DC. Building on South Africa’s G20 Presidency and JETP experience, the meeting aimed to enhance Country Platforms' effectiveness in mobilizing climate finance. Discussions focused on harmonizing finance, reducing fragmentation, and strengthening collaboration among development banks, climate funds, philanthropies, and the private sector, contributing to South Africa’s G20 Climate Finance Working Group and shaping the Baku to Belem Roadmap for COP30.