Employment in the Energy Sector
A 2020 report which provides an overview of recent employment trends at the global and EU-28 level related to the greening and decarbonisation of the economy, with a focus on the energy sector.
[Originally posted at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/343467849.pdf]
Effects of Decarbonization on the Energy System and Related Employment Effects in South Africa
A 2021 paper which assesses the impact of decarbonization on the energy system and related employment in South Africa.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901121001532]
Climate Policy Accelerates Structural Changes in Energy Employment
A 2021 work which adapts a methodology based on employment factors to project future changes in quantity and composition of direct energy supply jobs for two scenarios – (1) relatively weak emissions reductions as pledged in the nationally determined contributions (NDC) and (2) stringent reductions compatible with the 1.5 °C target.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421521005073]
Building a Just Transition for a Resilient Future: A Climate Jobs Program for Rhode Island
A 2022 report which examines the climate crisis in Rhode Island and outlines a set of high-impact climate jobs recommendations designed to maximize the state’s actions to do three things: 1) Create thousands of good-paying, high-quality jobs that help reverse inequality, 2) Drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and meet the state’s Act on Climate targets, and 3) Invest in infrastructure that will make Rhode Island communities healthier, more resilient and more equitable.
[Originally posted at https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/110931]
Climate Change and Just Transition: What Will Workers Need?
A 2017 report which argues that the time has come to address the controversial realities that as a global community we are currently facing: climate change and global warming.
[Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39294]
From Coal to Low Carbon: Coal Region Development Opportunities Under EU Recovery Programmes
A 2021 report which discusses the transition from coal under EU recovery programmes.
[Originally posted at https://www.ceps.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PI2021-06_From-coal-to-low-carbon.pdf]
Decarbonization and Just Transition Experiences of the V4 Countries
A publications which aims to shed a light on the necessary topdown approaches and strategic decisions on an EU or member-state level, but also on bottom-up initiatives on the local level stemming from municipal stakeholders or NGOs.
[Originally posted at https://europeum.org/data/articles/empowering-serbian-csos-involved-in-the-decarbonization-process-through-the-v4-experience.pdf]
Towards a Green and Just Transition
A 2022 report which argues that making ‘just transition’ possible demands the mobilisation of high amounts of resources by rethinking fiscal systems and applying innovative financial solutions; reaching broad consensus across income groups, generations and territories by crafting a new sustainable social contract; and working to forge new active regional and international partnerships.
[Originally posted at https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/41464f87-en.pdf?expires=1669389246&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=C6425536655DA936788A11FAA25DAE48]
A European Just Transition for a Better World
A 2022 book which is a unique edited volume developed as part of a broader transnational project of the Green European Foundation.
[Originally posted at https://gef.eu/project/jt-book/]
Transitioning Unions: What Constitutes a Just Transition for Swedish Trade Unions?
A 2022 study which illustrates 15 contrasting interpretations of what constitutes a ‘just transition’ through interviews with 13 Swedish trade union representatives from Sweden’s three largest industrial emitters (steel, 14 petroleum refining, cement) along with representatives at the central level.
[Originally posted at https://academic.oup.com/oocc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/oxfclm/kgac006/6823550]
Designing Just Transition Pathways: A Methodological Framework to Estimate the Impact of Future Scenarios on Employment in the French Dairy Sector
A 2021 paper which proposes an innovative framework to describe sustainable transitions of food systems while considering simultaneously socio-economic and environmental issues, in a ‘just transition’ perspective.
[Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/11/1119]
Zero Carbon as Economic Restructuring Spatial Divisions of Labour and Just Transition
A 2022 paper which brings new critical perspectives on low carbon transitions by conceptualising decarbonisation as a form of spatial economic restructuring and its potential implications in reinforcing and/or working against the existing patterns of uneven spatial development.
[Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2021.1967909]
Sustainable Rehabilitation of Surface Coal Mining Areas: The Case of Greek Lignite Mines
In the frame of growing pressure due to the CO2 emissions reduction initiatives; rapidly increasing renewable-power capacity; and cheap natural gas, the development of a modern mine land rehabilitation strategy is considered as a prerequisite for mitigating the social and economic impacts for the local communities. In the case of western Macedonia lignite mines, these prospects are investigated based on a PEST (political, economic, social, technological) analysis of seven alternative land uses.
[Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/15/3995]
A Novel Dataset for Analysing Sub-National Socioeconomic Developments in the Indian Coal Industry
A 2021 report which creates a novel dataset comprised of all 459 operational coal mines in India, using multiple Right to Information
Act applications (India’s Freedom of Information Act) and then combining this dataset with coal company wise employment factors to estimate direct job numbers at the district level(a subadministrative unit).
[Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2633-1357/abdbbb/meta]
Equity, Climate Justice and Fossil Fuel Extraction: Principles for a Managed Phase Out
A 2020 paper which explores how to equitably manage the social dimensions of a rapid transition away from fossil fuel extraction.
[Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/equity-climate-justice-and-fossil-fuel-extraction-accepted-manuscript.pdf]
Impacts of the Reimagine Appalachia and Clean Energy Transition Programs for Pennsylvania: Job Creation, Economic Recovery, and Long-Term Sustainability
A 2021 study which proposes a recovery program from the COVID-19 pandemic for Pennsylvania that is capable of exerting an
effective counterforce against the state’s ongoing recession in the short run while also building a durable foundation for an economically viable and ecologically sustainable longer-term recovery.
[Originally posted at https://reimagineappalachia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Pollin-et-al-PA-Final-Report-1-22-21.pdf]