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Green Fiscal Reform for a Just Energy Transition in Latin America
A 2018 outlook article which provides an overview of the major challenges for the successful implementation of green fiscal reforms and discusses how they could be overcome. [Originally posted at http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/journalarticles/2019-17]
Climate Change and the Just Transition A Guide for Investor Action
A 2018 Guide from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment which sets out how investors can pursue the goal of a just transition as part of their core operating practices. [Originally posted at https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/22101ijtguidanceforinvestors23november1118_541095.pdf]
Investing in a Just Transition: Why Investors Need to Integrate a Social Dimension into Their Climate Strategies and How They Could Take Action
A 2018 discussion paper which explores why investors should contribute to the ‘just transition’ and how they can do so. [Originally posted at https://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Robins-et-al_Investing-in-a-Just-Transition.pdf]
How to Ensure a Just and Fast Transition to a Competitive Low-Carbon Economy for the EU?
A 2018 paper which argues that planning for a 'just transition' for impacted regions and sectors should be a key priority for the incoming Commission in order to reach climate goals and ensure decent jobs for workers and a sustainable future for communities. [Originally posted at https://ieep.eu/uploads/articles/attachments/48c9607d-0c50-48a4-a0e4-d7809e2f89ec/Think%202030%20Low-carbon%20economy%20for%20the%20EU.pdf?v=63710108760]
Just Transition: A Business Guide
A 2018 guide which contains operational advice and tactics, several case studies and analysis of the risks and opportunities of climate action on a company’s workforce. It provides ways for companies to engage with workers, unions and governments that are constructive to a clean energy economy that benefits all. [Originally posted at https://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/just_transition_-_a_business_guide.pdf]
Towards a Just and Equitable Low-Carbon Energy Transition
A 2018 report which presents a review of existing literature on the different aspects of minimizing the adverse social and spatial impacts of transitions to low-carbon economies. [Originally posted at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/grantham-institute/public/publications/briefing-papers/26.-Towards-a-just-and-equitable-low-carbon-energy-transition.pdf]
Transition Policy for Climate Change Mitigation: Who, What, Why and How
A 2018 report which provides guidance on how to develop coherent and desirable 'just transition' policy packages. [Originally posted at https://ccep.crawford.anu.edu.au/publication/ccep-working-paper/12850/transition-policy-climate-change-mitigation-who-what-why-and]
Managing Coal Mine Closure: Achieving a Just Transition for All
A 2018 report which aims to to share with governments lessons learned on 'just transition' regarding coal mine closure. [Originally posted at https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/484541544643269894/managing-coal-mine-closure-achieving-a-just-transition-for-all]
Real People, Real Change: Strategies for Just Energy Transitions
A 2018 report which aims to support governments of both developed and developing countries in their endeavour to make energy transitions just building on research and case studies of energy transitions that have happened or that are happening in Canada, Egypt, Indonesia, India, Poland and Ukraine. [Originally posted at https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/real-people-change-strategies-just-energy-transitions.pdf]
Coal Kills: Research and Dialogue for a Just Transition
A 2018 report which highlights coal impacts in Mpumalanga and South Africa. It focuses on social, gender, worker and environmental justice and is written from a legal perspective to a campaigning perspective. [Originally posted at https://lifeaftercoal.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Coal_Kills.pdf]
Climate Paths for Germany
A joint 2018 Boston Consulting Group-Prognos study examining "economically cost-efficient strategies for successful 80 to 95 percent GHG reduction by 2050." [Originally posted at https://www.bcg.com/publications/2018/climate-paths-for-germany-english ]
EU Coal Regions: Opportunities and Challenges Ahead
A 2018 report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission entify the regions2 that looks at the "potential decline of coal mining and coal power-plant activities" and assesses "the impact on regional jobs" as well "reviews potential actions that could be undertaken at regional level, which could help re-use retired coal infrastructure and re-deploy personnel to new activities or extend the life of coal power plants with lower impact to the environment, thus maintaining jobs and economic activities within the affected regions" [Originally posted at https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/bitstream/JRC112593/kjna29292enn.pdf]
Framework Agreement for a Fair Transition of Coal Mining and sustainable Development of the Mining Communities for the Period 2019-2027
This is the detailed FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT reached between the government and mining unions "FOR A FAIR TRANSITION OF COAL MINING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINING COMMUNITIES FOR THE PERIOD 2019-2027".
Climate Paths for Germany
A 2018 report from the Boston Consulting Group that "shows economically cost-efficient strategies for successful 80 to 95 percent GHG reduction by 2050."
The Ruhr or Appalachia? Deciding the Future of Australia’s Coal Power Workers and Communities
A 2018 report for CFMMEU Mining and Energy by Industrial Relations Research Centre looking at decarbonisation of energy generation through clean-energy transition; clean-energy, economic-development transition; and Just Transition.
The Ruhr or Appalachia? Towards Estimates of the Scale of Costs of a Just Transition
A companion to the main report, this appendix looks at the costing of Just Transition explicitly recognising that both the routine operations and any closures of coal-fired power stations produce economic cost “externalities”, producing a much more accurate picture of the true costs of decisions — such as whether to close a power plant or not — and who carries the various costs under each option.

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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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