Sustianble development / Green economy resources
Strategy and plan
National strategic documents
- Green economy policy review of South Africa’s industrial policy framework [PDF - 6.49 mb]
- Perspective on the green economy [PDF 891.14 kb]
- National Strategy for Sustainable Development and Action Plan
- National Development Plan - Vision 2030 [PDF 16.75 mb]
- National Skills Development Strategy III [PDF 10111.9 kb]
- Ten Tear Innovation Plan [PDF 507 kb]
- New Growth Path [PDF 2.06 mb]
- Green Economy Accord [PDF 1.57 mb]
- Development Indicators [PDF 2.81mb]
Provincial strategic documents
- Free State Province: Green Economy Strategy [PDF 14.4 mb]
- Limpopo Province: Green Economy Plan: Including Provincial Climate Change Response [PDF 2.41 mb]
- Western Cape Province: Green is Smart: Western Cape Green Economy Strategy Framework [PDF 2.25 mb]
- Gauteng Province: a strategy for a developmental green economy for Gauteng [PDF 2.37 mb]
Research
- Towards sustainable development and green economy evidence strategy: Workshop report (Mapula Tshangela, Nikki Funke, Ajoy Datta & Louise Shaxson) [PDF - 924 kb]
- Working paper: Understanding the organisational context for evidence-informed policy-making (Louise Shaxson, Ajoy Datta, Mapula Tshangela and Bongani Matomela) [PDF - 3.88 mb]
- Evidence and policy in South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs (Alf Wills, Mapula Tshangela, Narnia Bohler-Muller, Ajoy Datta, Nikki Funke, Linda Godfrey, Bongani Matomela, Gary Pienaar, Nedson Pophiwa, Louise Shaxson, Wilma Strydom and Ke Yu) [PDF - 2.09 mb]
- Guidelines and good practices for evidence-informed policy-making in a government department (Alf Wills, Mapula Tshangela, Louise Shaxson, Ajoy Datta and Bongani Matomela) [PDF - 3.18 mb]
- The Green Economy Modelling Report of South Africa: A focus on Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Transport and Energy sectors [PDF 4.49 mb]
- Environment Sector Research, Development and Evidence Framework [PDF - 949,35 kb]
Policy
- Industrial Policy Action Plan 2012/13 - 2014/15 [PDF 1.57 mb]
- Industrial Policy Action Plan (2011): Economic Sector and Employment Cluster 2011 [PDF 998.94 kb]
- National Climate Change Response White Paper [PDF 4.80 mb]
Reports
National reports
- The third Non-Motorised Transport Conference report, 2020 [PDF 936.82 kb]
- Innovation for Sustainability under Climate Change and Green Economy [PDF 873 kb]
- Green Economy Summit report [PDF 969.87 kb]
- Event Sustainability Report for the Greening Programme
- Get report by chapters
- Download full report [PDF 19.59 mb]
International reports
- UNEP: Towards a Green Economy, path ways to sustainable development and poverty eradication [PDF 2.89 mb]
- Decoupling Natural Resources Use and Environmental Impact from Economic Growth [PDF 3.77 mb]
- UNEP: Green Economy Modeling, global green investment scenarios [PDF 2.19 mb]
- ILO: Green Jobs Report [PDF 1.08 mb]
- OECD: Green Growth [PDF 1.2 mb]
- UNEP: Multiple pathways to substainable development - Initial findings from Global South [PDF 1.38 mb]