Joanne Yawitch
Head of the JET PMU Presidency of South Africa
Joanne Yawitch Heads up the Just Energy Transition Project Management Unit in the South African Presidency.
She is a Commissioner of both the Presidential Climate Commission and the National Planning Commission and has extensive experience related to sustainable development and climate change.
She is the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Business Initiative. (NBI).
Prior to this, she was the Deputy Director General for Climate Change in in the Department of Environmental Affairs.
Joanne worked for the Gauteng Department of Environment from 1997 to 2004 and prior to that, was Special Adviser to the then Minister of Land Affairs from 1994 to 1997.
Joanne is the former Chair of the Board of Directors of South African National Parks (SANParks). She is also a Board Member of the South African Forestry Company (SAFCOL) and Chairs its Social and Ethics Committee.
2025 Agenda Sessions
The climate imperative - Prioritising a continental just energy transition
- Across Africa, the energy transition is a key opportunity for the continent to fully industrialise. How are policymakers seizing this initiative to pursue their own energy ambitions through mining?
- How can Africa take advantage of the energy transition to enhance mineral value-chains and green industrialisation, whilst also increasing local beneficiation?
- As more foreign environmental legislation imposes greater limits on heavy industrial sectors, are external stakeholders setting a standard that disregards the African development imperative?
Tuesday 04 February 15:45 - 16:30 CTICC2
Intergovernmental Summit Track 1
- Across Africa, the energy transition is a key opportunity for the continent to fully industrialise. How are policymakers seizing this initiative to pursue their own energy ambitions through mining?
- How can Africa take advantage of the energy transition to enhance mineral value-chains and green industrialisation, whilst also increasing local beneficiation?
- As more foreign environmental legislation imposes greater limits on heavy industrial sectors, are external stakeholders setting a standard that disregards the African development imperative?
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