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Implementing Coal Transitions: Insights from Case Studies of Major Coal-Consuming Economies
A 2018 report which summarizes the main insights from Coal Transitions research project. It outlines the growing momentum behind coal transitions around the world and highlights key findings from case studies of six major coal-consuming countries, which explore how “below-2°C”-compatible transitions away from thermal coal could be implemented. [Originally posted at https://coaltransitions.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/coal_synthesis_final.pdf]
Coal Transition in China: Options to Move from Coal Cap Managed Decline Under an Early Emissions Peaking Scenario
A 2018 report which explores pathways, implications and policy options for going beyond China’s existing cap on coal use. [Originally posted at https://www.iddri.org/en/publications-and-events/report/coal-transition-china]
Achieving a Socially Equitable Energy Transition in China
A 2018 study which provides a starting point for further analysis and aims at providing policymakers, academics and civil society with useful information on the status of the development of a low-carbon energy system in China. [Originally posted at https://asia.fes.de/news/achieving-a-socially-equitable-energy-transition-in-china]
Climate Change Actions and Just Transition
A 2018 paper which elaborates the progress of the studies and negotiations on a 'just transition' of the workforce and the creation of decent and quality jobs, in the context of implementing response measures under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). [Originally posted at https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S2345748118500240]
A Guide for Trade Unions: Involving Trade Unions in a Climate Action to Build a Just Transition
A 2018 guide for unions to a 'just transition' to a low carbon economy. [Originally posted at https://www.etuc.org/sites/default/files/publication/file/2018-09/Final%20FUPA%20Guide_EN.pdf]
From Paris to Katowice: The EU Needs to Step Up Its Game on Climate Change and Sets Its Own Just Transition Framework
A 2018 policy brief which examines implications of the EU’s targets for reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for labour markets. It argues that, given the enormous challenges, an equitable transition to a zero-carbon economy should be given higher priority and a clear allotment of EU financial resources. [Originally posted at https://www.etui.org/publications/policy-briefs/european-economic-employment-and-social-policy/from-paris-to-katowice-the-eu-needs-to-step-up-its-game-on-climate-change-and-set-its-own-just-transition-framework]
Changing Environment, Just Transition and Job Creation: Perspectives from the South
A 2018 book which aims to present the One Million Climate Jobs Campaign (mechanism based on research, networking and advocacy) as a movement which prefigures a 'just transition' to low-carbon development in South Africa, and to investigate in what sense this perspective from the South can be adapted and used in other Southern contexts in particular, and in the global context in general. [Originally posted at http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/clacso/sur-sur/20180810041959/Changing_environment.pdf]
A Just Transition for All or Just a Transition?
A 2018 discussion paper which argues four aspects that need to be considered for 'just transition' to be a truly global concept. [Originally posted at https://www.e3g.org/publications/a-just-transition-for-all-or-just-a-transition/]
Climate Change and the Just Transition: A Guide for Investor Action
A 2018 guide which sets out how investors can pursue the goal of a 'just transition' as part of their core operating practices. [Originally posted at https://www.workerscapital.org/IMG/pdf/investor_guide_just_transition_sept_2018_final.pdf]
Working Together for a Just Transition
A 2018 short pamphlet which has been produced to launch the New Economics Foundation’s new program of work on the 'just transition'. It focuses on the practicality of change: the policies, processes, narrative and investment needed to accelerate the UK’s progress on 'just transition', here and now. [Originally posted at https://neweconomics.org/uploads/files/Just_transition_FINAL_ONLINE.pdf]
Mapping Just Transition(s) to a Low-Carbon World
A 2018 report which unpacks the different understandings, narratives, and framings of 'just transition' that underpin the concept’s growing popularity and uptake. Six short country case studies then provide insights into how 'just transition' is—or is not—being mobilized on the ground. [Originally posted at https://www.uncclearn.org/resources/library/mapping-just-transitions-to-a-low-carbon-world/]
A Dialogue on a Just and Managed Transition to a Paris-Aligned Low-Carbon Future
A 2018 discussion paper which highlights key outcomes from a Chatham House Rule round table discussion on Canada's energy transition hosted by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and Oil Change International (OCI) for the purposes of informing continuing conversation. [Originally posted at https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/dialogue-just-and-managed-transition-paris-aligned-low-carbon-future]
The End of Coal: Alberta's Coal Phase-Out
A 2018 report which explores the circumstances leading to the phase-out and the actions taken by affected players for those who may draw inspiration and lessons from Alberta: policy-makers, campaigners, environmental groups, the coal industry and others transitioning to a low-carbon economy. [Originally posted at https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/end-coal-albertas-coal-phase-out]
Overcoming Energy Injustice? Bulgaria’s Renewable Energy Transition in Times of Crisis
A 2018 paper which analyzes the drivers and implications of Bulgaria's renewables expansion in order to test general expectations on influential factors shaping renewable energy transitions in the context of poor states. [Originally posted at https://core.ac.uk/outputs/153383230]
Just Transition in Bulgaria – Mission Possible for Maritsa-Iztok Energy Complex?
A 2018 report which makes a first assessment of the opportunities for a Just Energy Transition (JT) in the heart of Bulgarian coal mining and coal energy industry – the region known as Maritsa Iztok energy complex (MIEC). [Originally posted at https://bankwatch.org/publication/just-transition-in-bulgaria-mission-possible-for-maritsa-iztok-energy-complex]
Just Transition Towards Environmentally Sustainable Economies and Societies for All
A 2018 policy brief which addresses the main challenges in how 'just transition' can work in practice and what trade unions and workers’ organizations can do. [Originally posted at https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/publication/wcms_647648.pdf]

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Covid-19 and a Just Transition in India's Coal Mining Sector The COVID 19 pandemic hit India hard in early 2020, with negative GDP growth and a surge in unemployment. In the energy sector, coal fired power generation was already under pressure from overcapacity, low electricity demand growth, and increasingly competitive renewables.
Considerations for a Just and Equitable Energy Transition As the energy transition accelerates, it is our responsibility, it is our opportunity, to ensure that in addition to contributing to a healthy planet by replacing fossil fuels with clean energy sources, this is accomplished in a just and equitable manner providing prosperity for all.

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