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Solar Has Greater Techno-Economic Resource Suitability than Wind for Replacing Coal Mining Jobs

A 2020 study which focuses on China, India, the US, and Australia, which represent 70% of global coal production, and investigates: (1) the local solar and wind capacity required in each coal mining area to enable all coal miners to transition to solar/wind jobs; (2) whether there are suitable solar and wind power resources in coal mining areas in order to install solar/wind plants and create those jobs; and (3) the scale of renewables deployment required to transition coal miners in areas suitable for solar/wind power.
[Originally posted at https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6c6d/meta]

A Superfund for Workers

When the Dominion Corporation proposed, on April 1, 2013, to build a liquefied natural gas export facility at Cove Point, Md., right on the Chesapeake Bay, seven hundred people demonstrated against it and many were arrested in a series of civil disobedience actions. But an open letter endorsing the project maintained it would “create more than 3,000 construction jobs” most of which would go “to local union members.” The letter—on Dominion letterhead—was signed not only by business leaders, but also by twenty local and national trade union leaders.
[Originally posted at https://ecology.iww.org/PDF/LNS/1115brecher.pdf]

Fossil Fuel Phase Outs to Meet Global Climate Targets: Investigating the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Just Transitions

A 2021 dissertation in which the author conducted a systematic review of the academic literature on ‘just transition’ to synthesize identified elements of ‘just transition’. Next, the author collected a novel employment factors dataset and combined it with an integrated assessment model to analyze the energy sector employment implications of climate policies. Whether ‘local’ renewable jobs can be created for fossil fuel workers in key coal producing countries is also assessed. Finally, several novel datasets were collected to quantify and compare the scale of current socio-economic dependency on coal at the district level in India.
[Originally posted at https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0398719]

Zero Carbon as Economic Restructuring Spatial Divisions of Labour and Just Transition

A 2022 report which returns to the economic restructuring literature of the 1980s and 1990s to provide a theoretical framework for understanding ‘spatial divisions’ of low carbon work and how they might be shaped to ensure economically ‘just transition’.
[Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13563467.2021.1967909?needAccess=true]

Five R’s: A Cross-Sectoral Landscape of Just Transition in India

A 2021 report which evaluates the fossil fuel sectors and the following key allied industrial sectors :
1. Thermal power
2. Iron & Steel
3. Cement
4. Fertiliser
5. Road Transport
[Originally posted at https://iforest.global/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Five-Rs-Single.pdf[

Jobs in Green and Healthy transport: Making the Green Shift

A 2020 study which examines the economy-wide employment implications of an accelerated shift towards greener land transport in the region of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE).
[Originally posted at https://thepep.unece.org/sites/default/files/2020-05/THEPEP%20-%20Green%20jobs%20in%20transport.pdf]

Stakeholders in the Just Transition: Integrating Workers into Investment and Financing Frameworks

A 2021 paper which is the first of the “Stakeholders in the Just Transition” series, aims to assess the ways in which financial actors can better incorporate the dimension of workers into their strategies, to mitigate risks associated with the transition and maximize the opportunities
it can bring about.
[Originally posted at https://financefortomorrow.com/app/uploads/2021/02/F4T_Integrating-workers-into-investment-and-financing-frameworks.pdf]

A Just Transition to an Electric Vehicle Production System. Are We Ready? Jobs, Skills, and Qualifications

A 2022 blog which reports on the project on a ‘just transition’ to electric vehicles in the automotive sector (with Alex de Ruyter, Sally Weller, Ian Henry, Al Rainnie, and Beverley Nielsen) that was funded by the British Academy, and the implications for the West Midlands. The focus here is on what skills mix is needed and where skills gaps are, and what the role of government should be to facilitate the transition.
[Originally posted at https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/13316/1/A%20Just%20Transition%20to%20an%20Electric%20Vehicle%20Production%20System.pdf]

Climate Change and Labour: The Need for a “Just Transition”

A 2010 study which discusses the impact of climate change and mitigation policies on employment, identifies policies likely to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy, and examine how trade unions organize around the issue of climate change.
[Originally posted at https://labordoc.ilo.org/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=41ILO_INST%3A41ILO_V2&docid=alma994636883402676&context=L]

Enabling a Just Transition in Automotive: Evidence from the West Midlands and South Australia

A 2022 report which report presents the key findings and policy recommendations of a study examining the issues pertaining to a ‘just transition’ to zero/low-carbon vehicles for the automotive sector, drawing on case study research from the West Midlands region
in the UK, and the North Adelaide area of South Australia.
[Originally posted at https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/enabling-a-just-transition-in-automotive-evidence-from-the-west-midlands-and-south-australia/]