'Trashed and toxic transitions?' The environmental burden from climate and energy transitions that go wrong. 

The sustainability of a just energy transition towards a low-carbon economy is at risk. Trade- offs between low-carbon but high-material, high-waste, and high-toxicity scenarios need to be critically examined in an inter- and transdisciplinary manner.

This Public Square brings together an interdisciplinary core team to address this complex issue in partnership with other academics and non-academic players.

Potential outcomes include:

1. ​improved tools to measure environmental burden,
2. greater capacity in energy-economic-climate-environment modelling, a
3. responsive public policy and governance systems. Important, these potential

Outputs will be co-created with policy and decision-makers, and with those who are vulnerable to climate change and the impacts of transition.​​

​Faculty / School / Department / Institution​ represente​d: ​​

• Faculty Economics and Management Sciences
• School of Public Leadership: Environmental Management
• Faculty AgriSciences
• Department of Conservation Ecology & Entomology
• Faculty of Arts
• Department of Political Science
• Faculty of Law
• Department of Mercantile Law
• Faculty of Engineering
• School for Climate Studies

Core Team Members​: 

• Prof. Martin de Wit
• Prof. Anel du Plessis
• Prof. Karen Esler
• Prof. Derica Lambrechts
• Prof. Guy Midgley
• Prof. Babette Rabie​
• Prof. Wikus van Niekerk​
• Dr. Samantha Williams