For Good Jobs & Clean Air: How a Just Transition to Zero Emission Vehicles Can Transform Warehousing
A 2022 report which details the impact of the booming warehouse and logistics industry on Will County, Illinois.
[Originally posted at https://www.ww4j.org/uploads/7/0/0/6/70064813/wwj_report_good_jobs_clean_air.pdf]
Inclusive Green Finance: From Concept to Practice
A 2021 report which presents Inclusive Green Finance (IGF) as a holistic approach to policymaking that links environmental sustainability and
financial inclusion. IGF addresses the risks posed by climate change on social inclusion and poverty reduction, as well as environmental risks to the financial system.
[Originally posted at https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/35214/1/Volz%20et%20al%202021%20Inclusive%20Green%20Finance.pdf]
Carbon billionaires: The Investment Emissions of the World’s Richest People
Oxfam produced this November 2022 briefing–tied to the beginning of COP27–which finds that “125 of the world’s richest billionaires shows that on average they are emitting 3 million tonnes a year, more than a million times the average for someone in the bottom 90% of humanity.”
Powering the Transition
A 2020 report which aims to determine vulnerable communities’ top energy policy priorities. Authors heard opinions from hundreds of community members about climate change, renewable energy, transportation, housing, utilities, and more.
[Originally posted at https://www.pugetsoundsage.org/research/clean-healthy-environment/community-energy/]
Energy and Transport Poverty Amidst Plenty: Exploring Just Transition, Lived Experiences and Policy Implications in Iceland
A 2022 study which takes the case of a country with a high level of primary energy share that is renewable – Iceland – as well as high living standards, showing how energy and transport poverty are both possible and precariously experienced.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032122004348]
Women and the Net Zero Economy: A Briefing on Changes in Garment, Agriculture and Energy Supply Chains
A 2021 document which aims to help the UK government ahead of COP26 in its thinking around how to better understand the differential effects of climate change and identify opportunities for the transition to a net-zero economy to deliver decent job opportunities for women.
[Originally posted at https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/980198/Guidance3-Women–Net-Zero-Economy-Briefing1.pdf]
The Energy-Extractives Nexus and the Just Transition
A 2021 report which interrogates the idea of a ‘just transition’ and place it within its historical context. It addresses a major contradiction at the core of global energy transition debates: the rapid shift to low-carbon energy-systems will require increased extraction of minerals and metals. In doing so, the authors argue that extractive industries are energy and carbon-intensive, and will enlarge and intensify social and ecological injustice.
[Originally posted at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sd.2163]
An Inter‑Disciplinary Approach to the Energy Transition in South Africa
A 2021 study which concludes that the South African fossil fuel industry is still impeding the development of the country’s renewable resources, and the price of doing so is being met by those living in townships and in rural areas.
[Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43621-021-00043-w]
The New Green Revolution: A Just Transition to Climate-Smart Crops
A 2021 brief which outlines a framework for India’s “new green revolution” that will not only be feasible for small and marginal farmers, but will provide them stable incomes. The brief explores the necessary attributes of such a climate-smart transition.
[Originally posted at https://www.orfonline.org/research/new-green-revolution-just-transition-climate-smart-crops/]
Low-Carbon Technologies and Just Energy Transition: Prospects for Electric Vehicles
A 2022 paper which identifies the main activities of the electric vehicles (EVs) life cycle, where they occur, and potentially associated injustices.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590174522000940]
Delivering a Timely and Just Energy Transition: Which Policy Research Priorities?
A 2020 article which develops and discusses the following four research priority strands: (a) intergenerational justice and energy justice, (b) justice and energy vulnerability, (c) transformation of the social imaginary and energy infrastructure, and (d) damage, compensation, and energy infrastructure.
[Originally posted at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/eet.1892]
Gender Just Energy Policy: Engendering the Energy Transition in Europe
A 2021 PhD thesis which aims to bridge the scientific and policy knowledge gap in what constitutes a gender just energy policy by developing and applying a conceptual framework that integrates energy justice and gender approaches in energy policy.
[Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353247576_Gender_Just_Energy_Policy_engendering_the_energy_transition_in_Europe]
A Just Distribution: The Overlooked Role of Energy Distribution Policy and Governance in Achieving a Just Energy Transition in South Africa
A 2021 report which identifies what is missing from the current narratives of a just transition. In the initial assessment, there are two key gaps in the current national ‘just transition’ debate that will undermine significant progress towards a genuinely inclusive and socially just energy system.
[Originally posted at https://justurbantransitions.com/our_resources/a-just-distribution-the-overlooked-role-of-energy-distribution-policy-and-governance-in-achieving-a-just-energy-transition-in-south-africa/]
A Just Recovery Renewable Energy Plan for Africa
A 2021 report which offers a practical opportunity to change the trajectory of energy development, distribution and access. It opens up energy systems to a more democratic process, frees them from the power of transnational corporations (TNCs) and enables people and communities to access sufficient energy.
[Originally posted at https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Friends-of-the-Earth-Just-Recovery-Renewable-Energy-Plan-for-Africa-2021.pdf]
Energy Regime Reconfiguration and Just Transitions in the Global South: Lessons for West Africa from Morocco’s Comparative Experience
A 2022 article which argues that the case of Morocco – a country at the forefront of renewable energy development in Africa – provides salient lessons for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in its design and implementation of the West Africa Clean Energy Corridor (WACEC). Focusing on two key dimensions of energy sovereignty, viz: (1) people’s ownership of the energy transition process, and (2) land use, livelihood issues, and environmental footprints, the paper discusses the implications of Morocco’s Noor Ouarzazate (Noor 1) solar project and illuminates the injustices embedded in the process, including their post-colonial ramifications, in order to better grasp the challenges that West Africa must tackle for its energy transition through WACEC to be truly just.
[Originally posted at https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/9921597/1_s2.0_S0016328722000349_main_1_.pdf]
Transforming Education for Sustainable Development South Africa Background Paper
A 2021 background paper which considers both: 1) how education can contribute to sustainable development, and 2) how sustainable
development can shape quality, relevant education. It also frames the meaning of education broadly, within a lifelong learning framework that includes formal education, technical and vocational education and training, work and learning, as well as social movement and community education and social learning.
[Originally posted at https://tesf.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/TESF-South-Africa-Background-Paper-Final_05022021.pdf]