Skills for the Green Transition in South Africa

South Africa’s green transition will have major implications for its workforce. This note presents five strategies to prepare the workforce for the green transition. The note explores the implications of the green transition on labor and skills needs in South Africa, and assesses the readiness of the current skills development system to respond to these changes. It then presents strategies to improve the ability of the skills development system to ensure that workforce skills become a catalyst, rather than a bottleneck, of the green transition, and to support workers who risk losing employability due to the green transition. The note concludes by highlighting how the World Bank contributes to building skills for the green transition. The focus of this note is on skill needs for the just energy transition (JET) and on post-school education and training (PSET), especially Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and university education.