A 2019 briefing paper which finds, among other results, that efficient and effective use of available funds for regional transition strategies are crucial to create economic perspectives and ensure social stability in regions. [Originally posted at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep21748.pdf]

European commission president-designate Ursula von der Leyen has made climate change a top priority, promising to propose a European green deal that would make Europe climate neutral by 2050. The European green deal should be conceived as a reallocation mechanism, fostering investment shifts and labour substitution in key economic sectors, while supporting the most vulnerable segments of society throughout the decarbonisation process. The deal’s four pillars would be carbon pricing, sustainable investment, industrial policy and a just transition. [Originally posted at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep28626.pdf]

A 2019 paper which aims to bring back to the fore the decisive role of adequate measures for skills identification, development and recognition, in order to create labour market infrastructure capable of integrating sustainable development with decent work principles. [Originally posted at https://ejcls.adapt.it/index.php/ejcls_adapt/article/view/703]

A 2019 paper which analyses potential social impacts in a concrete case: the planned transition from coal to hydrogen-based steelmaking in the Swedish steel industry. [Originally posted at https://lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/files/94761821/Vogl_Rootz_n_Svensson_2019_A_just_transition_towards_a_coal_free_steel_industry_Copy.pdf]

A 2019 analysis of possible transition challenges and opportunities in the European energy, transport and agricultural sector finds that a framework for analysing and managing a 'just transition' needs to include the following aspects: employment and financial impacts, impacts on consumers and citizens, the geographic distribution of impacts and the impacts from climate change itself, in particular if action is delayed. [Originally posted at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep21749.pdf]

A 2019 article which, drawing upon an extensive case study of the Portuguese climate jobs campaign, goes beyond showing how these orientations shape the positions taken by union and climate activists. The article also analyses how the conflicts and cooperation between these key actors can shed light on the possibilities and/or limitations of just transition as a framework for the collective action needed to achieve rapid, deep decarbonisation of economies in the Global North context. [Originally posted at https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/3631]

A 2019 working paper which examines what a 'just transition' to a greener but employment-rich and egalitarian economy might look like. It examines the employment structure the European economy with a focus on the coal sector in the light of European Union commitments to phase out coal and argues that policymakers should devise a specific plan for the sector. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3402876]

A 2019 study which applies a 35-statement Q-methodology to identify the priorities of stakeholders as they relate to the Irish expanded polystyrene (EPS)/extruded polystyrene (XPS) market and the wider societal transition to a circular economy. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/23/6834]

A 2019 report which looks specifically at the manufacturing sector and what policy lessons can be learned from the last decade or more: is there more that could be done to bring greater numbers of the jobs in the Scottish renewables manufacturing supply chain to Scotland? And what are the implications of this for Scottish energy and industrial policy more broadly? [Originally posted at http://www.davidpowell.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NEF_Re-energising-manufacturing_Nov.pdf]

A 2019 research which argues that CCS could play a key role in sustaining over 26,000 direct jobs in the on-shore support industry that have traditionally associated with oil and gas, and around another 18,000 supply jobs associated with this industry and the emerging offshore renewables sectors. [Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/67391/]

A 2019 dissertation which makes the moral case for equitably transitioning away from fossil fuels in line with keeping global warming as close as possible to the Paris Climate Agreement’s more stringent target of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. It argues that we should do so while relying as little as possible on risky and uncertain negative emissions and geoengineering technologies, as doing so might prolong the fossil fuel era and pose grave potential costs both to the present and future generations. [Originally posted at https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/43733]

A 2019 paper which synthesizes evidence from the existing literature on social co-impacts of climate change mitigation policy and their implications for inequality. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2019.1596873]

A 2019 paper which presents a study of the governance roles of local renewable energy cooperatives (LRECs) in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/21/4171]

A 2019 presentation which shows the current situation of energy poverty (EP) in Japan. [Originally posted at http://aesc.hkbu.edu.hk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Energy-Poverty-and-Just-Energy-Transition-in-Japan_Shinichiro-Okushima.pdf]

A 2019 socioeconomic footprint analysis, which is based on the IRENA REmap energy transition roadmap 2018, explores a higher deployment of low-carbon technologies, mostly renewable energy and energy efficiency. [Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s41825-019-00018-6.pdf?pdf=button]

A 2019 policy brief which draws the attention of policy-makers, social partners, training providers and civil society organizations in both developed and developing countries to the essential role of skills development policies in advancing the sustainable transition to a greener future. [Originally posted at http://www.ilo.int/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/documents/publication/wcms_731957.pdf]