Publications
Publications
The foundation of the Presidential Climate Commission’s work is high-quality research, including flagship and technical reports, and stakeholder and expert views.
Flagship reports are formal recommendations to the government and its social partners, based on the commission’s deliberations.
Technical reports are research reports by the Secretariat to support the discussions and debates within the commission.
Stakeholder and expert views are perspectives from independent experts and external stakeholders.

13 Jun 2025 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Komati’s Just Transition: Assessing progress, challenges, and lessons
This report details progress under the decommissioning, repowering, and repurposing of Komati Power Station

04 Jun 2025 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Draft Recommendations for South Africa's 2030-2035 NDC Update
The PCC invites stakeholders to comments and discuss its recommendations for South Africa’s 2030-2035 Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) update.

01 May 2025 - Technical Reports
Technical Report: Co-Benefits of Net Zero Pathways
This report shows how SA’s energy transition can cut air pollution, improve health, and save water, delivering key co-benefits alongside emissions cuts

01 May 2025 - Technical Reports
Energy Sector Decarbonisation Pathways to Meet a National Net Zero Emissions Target By 2050
This report explores pathways for South Africa to reach net zero CO₂ by 2050, assessing impacts, co-benefits, and policy options for a just transition.

01 May 2025 - Technical Reports
Net Zero CO₂ Emission Pathways for South Africa
This report explores South Africa’s pathways to net zero CO₂ by 2050, highlighting energy transitions, socio-economic impacts, and just transition strategies

24 Apr 2025 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Climate Resilient Development Strategy Framework and Action Plan for Nelson Mandela Bay
This report highlights the role of stakeholder and community engagement in developing Nelson Mandela Bay’s Climate Resilient Development Strategy Framework.

24 Apr 2025 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Ecosystem-based Climate Adaptation & Development Mechanism for Implementation: Mpumalanga Case Study
This report provides an overview of the stakeholder process and overall assessment of Ecosystem-based Climate Adaptation, using Mpumalanga as a case study

03 Apr 2025 - Technical Reports
ELECTRICITY PRICING & SECTOR REFORM: Key Decisions to Consider for Electricity Sector Liberalisation
The report summarises key institutional arrangements & decisions for planners & regulators in South Africa as it introduce reforms to change its power system

03 Apr 2025 - Technical Reports
ELECTRICITY PRICING AND SECTOR REFORM: Distribution utility skills and capacities
The paper summarises the envisaged ringfenced functions with skills of the future electricity distribution business, categorised into DSO, NSP, RSP and DET.

03 Apr 2025 - Technical Reports
ELECTRICITY PRICING AND SECTOR REFORM: Electricity Reform and Market Basics
This paper provides an overview of SA's ESI landscape, current structure, key participants, operational performance status, and sector’s critical challenges.

31 Mar 2025 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
3 Sector Climate readiness Study: Consolidated Workshop Report
This report examines South Africa’s readiness for a just, climate-resilient transition in the water, agriculture, and built environment sectors.

31 Mar 2025 - Technical Reports
Adaptation Readiness in South Africa: Synthesis Report
How can South Africa build a just, resilient future? Explore practical pathways in the PCC’s latest Adaptation Readiness report.

03 Mar 2025 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Summary of Outcomes from Country Platform Exchange 2025
Download the Summary of Outcomes from Country Platform Exchange which took place on 24 & 25 February 2025

03 Feb 2025 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Results from a 2023 nationally representative survey on Public Perceptions & Attitudes on the JT
This PCC report in collaboration with HSRC on SA's climate views gives insights on growing awareness, JET support, and the need for clearer communication

19 Dec 2024 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Report on the PCC's Capacity Building Workshops on SA's 2035 NDC Targets
This report presents a high-level overview of the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) capacity building workshops that were conducted by the PCC

06 Dec 2024 - Technical Reports
Synthesis Report on The State of Readiness for the JET in Municipalities
This report assesses the readiness of 10 SA municipalities for the Just Energy Transition, highlighting gaps, barriers, and actionable recommendations

06 Dec 2024 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Stakeholder Perspectives on a Climate Change Response Fund for South Africa
This report summarises stakeholder consultations that informed the PCC’s recommendations for conceptualising & establishing the Climate Change Response Fund.

05 Dec 2024 - PCC Recommendation Reports
PCC Recommendations for a Climate Change Response Fund for South Africa
This report outlines recommendations for establishing South Africa’s Climate Change Response Fund to scale adaptation finance and build climate resilience.

04 Oct 2024 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
DISCUSSION Report: FINANCE MODELS FOR SOUTH AFRICA’S GRID INFRASTRUCTURE
Read this summary from the PCC's Grid Infrastructure Financing Roundtable discussion in collaboration with the JSE

04 Oct 2024 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Stakeholder Report: Financing the Transformation and the Role of International Climate Finance
Read this Stakeholder Report emanating from a recent Climate Talks dialogue

16 Sep 2024 - Technical Reports
PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS AND ATTITUDES RELATING TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE JUST TRANSITION IN SOUTH AFRICA
This report outlines the results of a national survey to assess South Africans' perceptions of climate change and the Just Transition.

13 Sep 2024 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Workshop Report on Enabling a Just Transition: Optimising Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation
A workshop was constituted to present the think piece, Enabling a Just Transition: Optimising Labour Law and Labour Market Regulation for a Just Transition.

29 Aug 2024 - Technical Reports
Short-term, private sector-led employment strategy for Mpumalanga Report
This report highlights opportunities identified by the Presidential Climate Commission for short-term private sector growth in Mpumalanga

25 Jul 2024 - Technical Reports
The State of Climate Action in South Africa
Priorities for Action for the Government of National Unity

15 Jul 2024 - PCC Recommendation Reports
Just Transition Financing Mechanism Recommendations Report
This report presents the PCC’s recommendations on a JTFM.

23 May 2024 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Stakeholder Report: Peer to Peer learning on Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
This report presents a summary of the learning events on climate change adaptation and resilience

14 May 2024 - Technical Reports
Stakeholder perspectives on engaging with South Africa’s Just Transition
This report presents a detailed stakeholder analysis to enhance engagement across key sectors and regions

02 Apr 2024 - Annual Reports
Annual Report 2023 - 2024
The PCC’s third annual review highlights the PCC’s work areas, major accomplishments for FY2023/4, and sets the agenda and highlights for the year ahead.

29 Mar 2024 - Technical Reports
PCC recommendations on the IRP2023: March 2024
This technical report outlines the PCC's recommendations on the Draft IRP2023.

05 Mar 2024 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Youth Perspectives Series 2024 Booklet
Youth Perspectives Series 2024 Booklet written by South African Youth

16 Feb 2024 - PCC Recommendation Reports
Social Ownership Models in the Energy Transition
Read this PCC report on social ownership models in the energy transition.

21 Dec 2023 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Stakeholder Report: PCC Energy Dialogue Series
This report summarises stakeholder inputs from the PCC's energy dialogues which took place between July and November 2023.

04 Dec 2023 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Draft Scaling Finance to Support a Just Transition: The Potential of a JTFM
Draft Just Transition Financing Mechanism Proposal for Public Comment

24 Nov 2023 - Technical Reports
The South African Climate Finance Landscape 2023
This report seeks to map climate finance investment in South Africa by way of tracking project-level investments.

17 Nov 2023 - PCC Recommendation Reports
PCC REPORT: EARLY LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM KOMATI’S DECOMMISSIONING AND REPURPOSING PROJECT
This report presents PCC early lessons and recommendations from Komati’s Power Station decommissioning and repurposing project

01 Jun 2023 - Annual Reports
Annual Report 2022 - 2023
The PCC's Second Annual Review Report (2022-2023)

01 Jun 2023 - PCC Recommendation Reports
Recommendations from the PCC on South Africa’s Electricity System
This report presents the PCC’s recommendations for South Africa’s electricity system.

05 May 2023 - Technical Reports
Stakeholder Perspectives on the PCC’s Recommendations on Electricity Planning in South Africa
This report presents a summary of the consultations conducted by the PCC on its recommendations for electricity planning for the country.

04 Apr 2023 - Working Paper
A Critical Analysis of the Impacts of and Responses to the April-May 2022 Floods in KwaZulu-Natal
PCC Working Paper with particular focus on the April-May 2022 Floods in KZN

14 Feb 2023 - Working Paper
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms and Implications for South Africa
PCC Working Paper with particular analysis on the CBAM emanating from the European Union as part of its Green Deal

09 Nov 2022 - Technical Reports, External Reports
Guidance for Putting Climate-Resilient Development Pathways Into Practice: Report 2
This work presents a Climate Resilient Development Pathways (CRDP) conceptual framework and methodology.

09 Nov 2022 - Technical Reports, External Reports
Guidance for Putting Climate-Resilient Development Pathways Into Practice: Report 4
This work presents a Climate Resilient Development Pathways (CRDP) conceptual framework and methodology.

09 Nov 2022 - Technical Reports, External Reports
Guidance for Putting Climate-Resilient Development Pathways Into Practice: Report 3
This work presents a Climate Resilient Development Pathways (CRDP) conceptual framework and methodology.

09 Nov 2022 - Technical Reports, External Reports
Guidance for Putting Climate-Resilient Development Pathways Into Practice: Report 1
This work presents a Climate Resilient Development Pathways (CRDP) conceptual framework and methodology.

03 Nov 2022 - External Reports, Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
South Africa's Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP) Full Document
The JET IP for the five-year period 2023-2027 sets out the scale of need and the investments required to achieve the decarbonisation commitments.

03 Nov 2022 - External Reports, Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
South Africa’s Nationally Determined Contribution - Updated September 2021
Cabinet approved South Africa's updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets in September 2021.

03 Nov 2022 - External Reports, Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
South Africa's Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP) Full Document
The JET IP for the five-year period 2023-2027 sets out the scale of need and the investments required to achieve the decarbonisation commitments.

14 Sep 2022 - Annual Reports
Annual Report 2021 – 2022
2021 - 2022 Inaugural Annual Report of the Presidential Climate Commission

05 Jul 2022 - Technical Reports, PCC Recommendation Reports, Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
Just Transition Framework – Final Report and Recommendations, June 2022
Just Transition Framework for South Africa Final Report and Recommendations Dedicated to the memory of Mr Azwimpheleli Mactavish ('Mac') Makwarela.

01 Dec 2021 - Technical Reports
Laying the Foundation for a Just Transition Framework for South Africa
This report presents a summary of studies and consultations, highlighting important considerations for the development of the just transition framework.

01 Nov 2021 - PCC Recommendation Reports
South Africa's NDC Targets for 2025 and 2030
Technical analysis to support consideration of the emissions trajectory in South Africa’s NDC.

26 Oct 2021 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
WWF Policy Brief - A Just Transition in the Water Sector
This brief forms part of a series that will inform the development of a new “Framework for a Just Transition”, which will be developed by the PCC.

15 Oct 2021 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
TIPS Policy Brief - Financing a Just Transition
The brief aims to move the ‘financing a just transition’ discourse forward by proposing a framework which considers a spectrum of just transition ambitions.

05 Oct 2021 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
TIPS Policy Brief - Unemployment and Sustainable Livelihoods
This policy brief makes the case for why SA’s just transition must be proactive in its inclusion of unemployed people and poor communities.

01 Oct 2021 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
TIPS Draft Policy Brief - Governance and the Just Transition
This policy brief forms part of a series of briefs that will provide an evidence-based foundation for a new “Framework for a Just Transition”.

23 Sep 2021 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
TIPS Policy Brief - The Just Transition in Coal
This policy brief describes the nature of the just transition, associated costs and benefits; the nature of governance systems; and key debates arising.

14 Sep 2021 - Stakeholder Reports & Discussion Documents
TIPS Policy Brief - Policy Primers for a Just Transition Framework
This paper aims to contribute to unpacking the meaning of a just transition and the tools to foster it in the South African context.

01 Sep 2021 - Technical Reports
Towards a Just Transition: A review of local and international policy debates
This review presents a situational analysis of the key issues that will inform the development of South Africa’s Just Transition Framework.

29 May 2019 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition Concluding Conference Report
This report provides a summary of inputs and discussions that took place at the NPC's Pathways for a Just Transition Concluding Conference on 29 May 2019.

22 May 2019 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition Free State Report
This report provides a summary of the inputs and discussions that took place at the Free State Provincial workshop on 22nd May 2019.

16 Apr 2019 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition Kwa-Zulu Natal Report
This report provides a summary of the inputs and discussions that took place at the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial workshop on 16 April 2019.

03 Apr 2019 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition Limpopo Report
This report provides a summary of the inputs and discussions that took place at the Limpopo Provincial workshop on the 3 April 2019.

12 Mar 2019 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition North West Report
This report provides a summary of the inputs and discussions that took place at the North West Provincial workshop on the 12 March 2019.

28 Feb 2019 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition Eastern Cape Report
This report provides a summary of the inputs and discussions that took place at the Eastern Cape Provincial workshop on the 28 February 2019.

13 Feb 2019 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition Mpumalanga Report
This report provides a summary of the inputs and discussions that took place at the Mpumalanga Provincial workshop on the 13 February 2019.

06 Dec 2018 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition Northern Cape Report
This report provides a summary of the inputs and discussions that took place at the Northern Cape Provincial workshop on the 6 December 2018.

09 Aug 2018 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition Gauteng Report
This report provides a summary of the inputs and discussions that took place at the Gauteng Provincial workshop on 9 August 2018.

24 May 2018 - External Reports
National Development Plan: Pathways for a Just Transition Western Cape Report
This report provides a summary of the inputs and discussions that took place at the Western Cape Provincial workshop on the 24 May 2018.