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sandra van niekerk

Sandra van Niekerk

Policy Officer, LRG, Utilities (Energy, Waste, Water and Sanitation), and Climate Change

sandra.van.niekerk@world-psi.org

Sandra van Niekerk has started working as PSI Climate Change Project Coordinator (80% position) on 1st July 2020.

Sandra will be responsible for the effective implementation of the PSI climate change strategy in the Africa and Arab Countries Region and will act as liaison coordinator for climate change work with other PSI regions. She will work with relevant trade unions and allies to promote the PSI policy on climate change, and to build capacity and knowledge of this issue in the public sector trade unions. The PSI project work on climate change in Africa and Arab Countries is implemented in Kenya, Zambia, Tunisia, Tanzania, Morocco and Nigeria.

She will be based in South Africa and can be reached via her PSI email address: sandra.van.niekerk@world-psi.org and her mobile phone number +27 83 63 36 052.

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PSI affiliates played an active part in the trade union space linked to the 1st International Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, as well as in the Conference itself, which took place from 24 – 29 April 2025 in Santa Marta, Colombia. This Conference was co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and the Netherlands and arose out of a recognition that the outcomes of COP 31 were insufficient to meet the challenges of the climate crisis, that the formal UNFCCC process was not delivering what is needed, and that there is therefore a need for spaces outside of the formal multilateral process for more ambitious and urgent actions to be agreed.