Professor Vanesa Castán Broto, Principal Investigator for JustGESI, shares insights from the Global Environment Outlook 7 (GEO-7) Report, launched at the UN Environment Assembly in December 2025, and reflects on its implications for equitable energy transitions, community energy, clean cooking, and feminist energy perspectives rooted in justice and knowledge pluralities.

As part of the JustGESI annual meeting in Cape Town this October, our team visited Langa Township to learn from its histories and present realities. Drawing on this experience, Dr Rihab Khalid reflects on how the legacies of apartheid urbanism continue to shape everyday lives in the township, reminding us that the questions of energy justice are inseparable from issues of space, place, memory, and care.