UNLOCKING JUST TRANSITIONS.
Transforming systems for just and sustainable development pathways.
Southern Transitions is a climate and transition think tank working to advance just transitions in the Global South. We are focused on transformative economic opportunities for systems that are changing, emerging, and scaling up in the transition.
ABOUT US
VISION
Real pathways to just, sustainable, futures for the Global South.
MISSION
We empower decision-makers to collectively identify, open and harness real opportunities for just transitions, using evidence, experiments and new ideas.
OUR WORK
We have established a programme of work that links four key areas. We identify real transition opportunities as the Global South responds to climate change, and we formulate viable business cases for building and upgrading value chains. Climate change is a global challenge: we offer technical support in multilateral processes, to empower Global South actors to negotiate across multilateral processes. Finally, we catalyze action through our living lab — a collaborative, “do-tank” that moves just transition initiatives forward.
JUST TRANSITION TECHNICAL SUPPORT IN MULTILATERAL PROCESSES
Empower Global South actors to negotiate for and advance just transitions through multilateral processes, including the climate change negotiations (UNFCCC) and the G20.
BUILDING & UPGRADING VALUE CHAINS
Formulate viable business cases for Global South countries to harness value chain upgrading opportunities in the transition.
TRANSITION OPPORTUNITIES
Identify, characterise, and interrogate real opportunities (economic, political, and social-ecological) in the climate transition for broad, structural transformation in the Global South.
LIVING LAB
"Drive implementation of creative just transition initiatives in the Global South through partnerships, experimentation, and learning.
The leadership team has a track record for successfully developing value-adding solutions and project management.
Individually and together, team members work collaboratively and foster long-term trusted relationships, entrepreneurial spirit, and a commitment to delivering impactful solutions to meet the challenge of just transitions to net-zero development pathways.
Image: Gaylor Montmasson-Clair, Lauren Hermanus, and Anthony Dane, are the three co-founders and Directors of Southern Transitions.
FEATURED REPORT —
Can international cooperation work for Africa and its states?
As a continent, Africa is rich in the minerals necessary for our transitioning global economy; but the region's demands are shifting, and with those, expectations that structure international partnerships.
It is impossible to confront these questions without taking seriously the roles of China and Chinese actors in global value chains, as well as local economies. How well do we really understand these roles? How do other foreign actors influence them? How are different African actors navigating these relationships on a fractious geopolitical stage? This paper adds to a growing policy discourse that seeks to develop evidence-based, conceptually sound, Africa-centred understanding of the pitfalls and potential of international cooperation on minerals, highlighting possible strategies to increase value creation and capture for African actors and economies.
