The Impact of Carbon Taxation and Revenue Redistribution on Poverty and Inequality
A 2022 research which explores the potential of carbon fiscal reforms, combining a carbon tax of levels deemed appropriate to achieve climate targets and the transfer of the revenues raised to vulnerable households.
[Originally posted at https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/266567]
COVID-19 Underscores the Urgency of Just Transition Alongside Green Recovery
A 2020 study which quantifies the short-term impacts of COVID and various recovery packages on 18 labor demand and income equality.
[Originally posted at https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-81303/v1_covered.pdf?c=1631842932]
London: A Just Transition City
A 2021 report, the result of a unique project between IPPR and London Citizens, which sets out the results of an extensive listening campaign, run by London Citizens, on the priorities for the next mayor of London. It charts how action on the climate crisis could help the capital to ‘build back better’ but only if economic and social justice are allied to climate action.
[Originally posted at https://citizensuk.contentfiles.net/media/documents/london-a-just-transition-city-february-21.pdf]
Putting People First: An Analysis of the European Green Deals Relationship to a Just Transition from an Intersectional Feminist Standpoint
A 2021 research which analyzes the European Green Deal according to its aim for environmental justice that includes gender.
[Originally posted at https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/11713]
Poverty and Inequality Implications of Carbon Pricing Under the Long‑Term Climate Target
A 2022 report which assesses multiple poverty and equity standards in future scenarios with a newly developed integrated assessment model. It was found that climate change mitigation efforts would not greatly hinder poverty alleviation in China, with the poverty headcount under the $3.2/cap/day-threshold being less than 0.3 million people in 2050 in most scenarios.
[Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01206-y]
What Is the Role of the Regulator and Utility in Ensuring a Just Transition?
A 2022 article which discusses how the energy transition will impact the fuel poor, who should pay for the energy transition and how we can protect the most vulnerable.
customers.[Originally posted at https://extra.shu.ac.uk/ppp-online/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/role-regulator-just-transition.pdf]
A “Spatially Just” Transition? A Critical Review of Regional Equity in Decarbonisation Pathways
A 2022 study which identifies that future transition policymaking could benefit from using spatially targeted interventions, and in adopting a whole systems approach.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622001347]
Intersectionality and Energy Transitions: A Review of Gender, Social Equity and Low-Carbon Energy
A 2020 paper which reviews the academic literature to understand the state of knowledge on how diffusion of low-carbon technologies
impacts gender and social equity in intersectional ways.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620303492]
When Energy Justice Is Contested: A Systematic Review of a Decade of Research on Sweden’s Conflicted Energy Landscape
A 2022 review which findings suggest that there has been little explicit focus on energy justice in the literature on Sweden’s energy system.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629622003656]
‘The Reduction of Fuel Poverty May Be Lost in the Rush to Decarbonise’: Six Research Risks at the Intersection of Fuel Poverty, Climate Change and Decarbonisation
A 2022 study which draws on qualitative interviews to distil a set of six risks that inform the development of a research agenda towards a ‘just transition’.
[Originally posted at https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/63765/1/reduction-fuel-poverty-decarbonise.pdf]
Equitably Ending the Fossil Fuel Era: Climate Justice, Capital, and the Carbon Budget
A 2019 dissertation which makes the moral case for equitably transitioning away from fossil fuels in line with keeping global warming as close as possible to the Paris Climate Agreement’s more stringent target of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. It argues that we should do so while relying as little as possible on risky and uncertain negative emissions and geoengineering technologies, as doing so might prolong the fossil fuel era and pose grave potential costs both to the present and future generations.
[Originally posted at https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/43733]
Social Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies and Their Implications for Inequality
A 2019 paper which synthesizes evidence from the existing literature on social co-impacts of climate change mitigation policy and their implications for inequality.
[Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1596873]
Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities: Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production
A 2021 book which builds on an international workshop held between 25 and 27 June 2019 in Jena, Germany. The workshop was
hosted by the Junior Research Group “Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Transnational Entanglements and Interdependencies in the Bioenergy
Sector”, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
[Originally posted at https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/49529/9783030689445.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]
Existing Climate Mitigation Scenarios Perpetuate Colonial Inequalities
A ‘just transition’ requires energy convergence—reducing energy use in wealthy countries to achieve rapid emissions reductions, and ensuring sufficient energy for development in the rest of the world. However, existing climate mitigation scenarios reviewed by The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change do not explore such a transition.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542519622000924]
The Green New Deal in the United States: What It Is and How to Pay for It
A 2020 report which outlines the main features of the US Green New Deal (GND) with Senator Bernie Sanders’ more detailed, fully costed version, exploring its implications for policymaking and social science-based energy research. We focus on two of its most striking characteristics: its macroeconomics; and its inextricable linkage of climate change mitigation and the reduction of economic inequality.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620301067]
The People’s Transition: Community-Led Development for Climate Justice
A 2020 publication which proposes a participative decision-making model, The People’s Transition, that views climate action as an enabler of local development, gives people and communities ownership of the transition to zero carbon societies and enhances public support for a ‘just transition’ by tackling inequality and raising standards of living through the delivery of climate solutions.
[Originally posted at https://feps-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/downloads/publications/feps-tasc%20the%20peoples%20transition%20-%202020.pdf]