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Will COVID-19 Support the Transition to a More Sustainable Fashion Industry?
A 2020 policy brief which examines the impact of COVID-19 on sustainability initiatives in the fashion industry. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15487733.2020.1829848]
Industrial Demand-Side Flexibility: A Key Element of a Just Energy Transition and Industrial Development
As countries worldwide transition to a low-carbon economy (in particular, by the development of renewable energy sources), the increasing fluctuation in renewable energy production requires new flexibility options within the electricity system in order to guarantee security of supply. It is advanced in this paper that such a flexibility transition with an active participation of industry in general has unique potential: It will not only promote green industrial development, but also become an engine for inclusive industrial development and growth as well as delivering a 'just transition' to a low-carbon economy. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261920305389]
Modelling the Zero-Carbon Transition: International Approaches and Lessons for Ireland
A 2020 research paper which was an input to, and should be read in conjunction with, Council Report no 149: Addressing Employment Vulnerability as Part of a Just Transition in Ireland. [Originally posted at http://edepositireland.ie/handle/2262/100588]
Streams, Windows and Policy Entrepreneurship: Analysing the Agenda-Setting and Policy Formulation of the EU’s Just Transition Fund
A 2020 research which focuses on analysing the policy process of the 'just transition' fund during the stages of agenda-setting and policy formulation. [Originally posted at https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/10500]
Financing a Just Transition to Net-Zero Emissions in the UK Housing Sector
A 2020 policy brief which argues that action to green the UK’s building stock lags far behind what is needed to meet the UK’s net-zero emissions by 2050 target and that a 'just transition' in the housing sector has to be inclusive and place-based. [Originally posted at https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Financing-a-just-transition-to-net-zero-emissions-in-the-UK-housing-sector.pdf]
Green Sacrifice Zones, or Why a Green New Deal Cannot Ignore the Cost Shifts of Just Transitions
A Green New Deal could put severe pressure on lands held by Indigenous and marginalized communities and reshape their ecologies into “green sacrifice zones.” Such cost shifting risks reproducing a form of climate colonialism in the name of 'just transition'. Avoiding cost shifts opens interdisciplinary research questions regarding land-use policy, economics, politics, and non-Eurocentric knowledge and leadership. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259033222030542X]
Collaboration and Evaluation in Urban Sustainability and Resilience Transformations: The Keys to a Just Transition?
A 2020 dissertation which explores the role of partnerships and collaborations as well as monitoring and evaluation in facilitating and accelerating equitable urban sustainability and resilience transformation, and concludes with the establishment of 'just transformative capacity'. [Originally posted at https://www.proquest.com/openview/bd9a59b627b0f0198dbf31b45d633e93/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y]
The Architecture of Financial Networks and Models of Financial Instruments According to the “Just Transition Mechanism” at the European Level
A 2020 paper which aims to analyze the main concepts and phenomena that could be considered generative factors for current financial market trends, as well as the inventory of facts and acts that provide a picture of the financial market. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/13/10/235]
COVID-19 Underscores the Urgency of Just Transition Alongside Green Recovery
A 2020 study which quantifies the short-term impacts of COVID and various recovery packages on 18 labor demand and income equality. [Originally posted at https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-81303/v1_covered.pdf?c=1631842932]
Raising the Level of Ambition on Carbon Pricing in Asia and Pacific
A 2020 policy brief which shows that carbon tax and emissions trading system are gaining momentum across the world, including in Asia and the Pacific, but current rates are too low to shift behaviour, capital and technology towards low-carbon development. [Originally posted at https://repository.unescap.org/handle/20.500.12870/1069]
Policy Effects of Energy Cooperatives for a Just Transition
A 2020 research which aims to identify the specific causal mechanisms at play that can explain the influence of (Energy Cooperatives) ECs and their inclusion of understandings of justice in regional policy outputs for the energy transition. [Originally posted at https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/38645]
Paying for the Pandemic and a Just Transition
A 2020 report which brings together ten progressive proposals that could pay for the costs of the pandemic and finance a 'just transition' to a better world. [Originally posted at https://longreads.tni.org/paying-for-just-transition]
Labor Migration in the Post-COVID World: Imagining ‘Just Transition’ Using Decent Work Agenda
A 2020 article which examines how COVID-19 impacts migrant workers and what can be done for their equitable transition after the pandemic is subdued. [Originally posted at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3666064]
Energy-Sufficiency for a Just Transition: A Systematic Review
A 2020 research which examines energy sufficiency as a maximum quantity of energy associated with improvements in human well-being to inform a recalibration of energy targets among high-energy societies. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/10/2444]
The Concept of a Just Transition Is as Relevant to the Fourth Industrial Revolution as It Is for the Move Towards a Low Carbon Economy
A 2020 working paper which makes the case that worker-related tenets of a 'just transition' in the energy sector also apply to a migration to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) economy. [Originally posted at http://satrilibrary.dedicated.co.za:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/115]
Supporting Young Oil and Gas Workers in Alberta: Lessons from Just Transition
A 2020 study which examines potential improvements to Alberta’s employment services system and its active labour market policies to better support young oil and gas workers in their adjustment. [Originally posted at https://summit.sfu.ca/item/20104]

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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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