The Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) is a multi-stakeholder body established by the President of South Africa to advise the country on its climate change response and define pathways to a low-carbon climate-resilient economy and society.

In building this society, the country needs to ensure decent work for all, social inclusion and eradication of poverty particularly for the most vulnerable including women, children, people with disabilities, the poor and the unemployed and protecting workers’ jobs and livelihoods.

The PCC’s mandate emanates from the October 2018 Presidential Jobs Summit when social partners agreed to a statutory entity to coordinate and oversee the Just Transition towards a low-carbon, inclusive, climate-resilient economy and society. It consists of government ministers and commissioners representing social partners, including academia, business, civil society, labour and youth.

The PCC facilitates dialogue and defines the type of society we want and has already successfully delivered the country’s first Just Transition Framework adopted in May 2022, and by Cabinet in July 2022.