This article explores contextual background and legislative developments within the energy sector of both South Africa and the European Union (EU) which has led to the formulation of the International Just Energy Transition Partnership between South Africa and the EU and particular EU member states. This is done by observing and unpacking the state of renewable energy production within South Africa and the EU and reviewing key principles in specific legislation within the respective energy sector. The paper aims to address and identify areas of interest that should be included within the International Just Energy Transition Partnership between South Africa and the EU in order to ensure that climate goals and energy sector objectives within both South Africa and the EU are efficiently and effectively achieved.

The International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy is a book series that discusses the central questions of law and policy with regard to the protection and sustainable management of soil and land. The Yearbook series analyzes developments in international law and new approaches at the regional level as well as in a wide range of national jurisdictions. In addition, it addresses cross-disciplinary issues concerning the protection and sustainable management of soil, including tenure rights, compliance, food security, human rights, poverty eradication and migration. Each volume contains articles and studies based on specific overarching topics and combines perspectives from both lawyers and natural scientists to ensure an interdisciplinary discourse.The International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy offers a valuable resource for lawyers, legislators, scholars and policymakers dealing with soil and land issues from a regulatory perspective. Further, it provides an essential platform for the discussion of new conceptual approaches at the international, national and regional level.

This article reviews the possible and expected effects of climate change on certain components of human security in Africa. Due to multiple stresses, Africa is one of the continents most vulnerable to climate change and climate variability. Climate change and climate variability not only have the potential to impose additional pressures on human security and to overwhelm adaptive capacities of societies, climate change is also deemed to influence a diverse array of conflicts. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, one of the greatest impacts of climate change might be on human mobility. To this end, the chapter focuses on the socio-political and legal aspects of climate-change-induced movement of environmental migrants, refugees and displaced persons, and potential human rights responses thereto. * This article is an updated version of Ruppel & van Wyk (2011a). 1 CHS (2003). 2 UNDP (1994).

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