Urgent skills development roadmap required for a just energy transition

To successfully effect a just energy transition (JET), South Africa needs to urgently identify the skills required and create a skills development roadmap, as it could take between five and ten years to ready the skills system for new value chains and competences, South African Presidency project management office head Rudi Dicks has said. Speaking at the International Research Conference on Skills for a Just Transition, in Johannesburg, on May 11, he said the cross-cutting nature of skills interventions for the JET meant that South Africa needed to establish strong coordination and planning mechanisms.