A 2020 paper which explores how to equitably manage the social dimensions of a rapid transition away from fossil fuel extraction. [Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/equity-climate-justice-and-fossil-fuel-extraction-accepted-manuscript.pdf]

A 2020 report which outlines the main features of the US Green New Deal (GND) with Senator Bernie Sanders’ more detailed, fully costed version, exploring its implications for policymaking and social science-based energy research. We focus on two of its most striking characteristics: its macroeconomics; and its inextricable linkage of climate change mitigation and the reduction of economic inequality. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620301067]

A 2020 paper which addresses the following questions: 1. What have been the documented distributional impacts of past declines in natural resource extraction, disaggregated by gender and by age? 2. How have distributional impacts been mitigated in the past? [Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/distributional-impacts-of-mining-transitions-1.pdf]

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 2020 case study which aims to identify specific attributes and processes of the Just Transition Task Force that might help depolarize debates over energy and climate issues in Canada. It is one of four that aim to identify “What Works?” when it comes to addressing polarized contexts. [Originally posted at https://ruor.uottawa.ca/handle/10393/42487]

A 2020 dissertation which argues that the 'just transition' policy framework may not vivify labor internationalism or erode support for right-wing populists if 'just transitions' are not part of leftwing populist projects. [Originally posted at https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/104394/Abraham_JC_D_2020.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]

A 2020 case study which explores the learning and education of a community organization involved with multiple 'just transition' initiatives in Eastern Kentucky where the economies were formerly dominated by the coal industry. [Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Colleen-Unroe/publication/344416233_Education_and_learning_to_support_a_Just_Transition_in_Central_Appalachia/links/5f733fe9458515b7cf575327/Education-and-learning-to-support-a-Just-Transition-in-Central-Appalachia.pdf]

A 2020 paper which aims to provide an overview of the necessary transition path, its challenges and possibilities for a sector that attracted a lot of attention throughout the EU in the past – the automotive sector. [Originally posted at https://reneweurope-cor.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/The-Green-Deal-and-the-Automotive-Industry-in-the-EU.pdf]

A 2020 publication which proposes a participative decision-making model, The People’s Transition, that views climate action as an enabler of local development, gives people and communities ownership of the transition to zero carbon societies and enhances public support for a 'just transition' by tackling inequality and raising standards of living through the delivery of climate solutions. [Originally posted at https://feps-europe.eu/wp-content/uploads/downloads/publications/feps-tasc%20the%20peoples%20transition%20-%202020.pdf]

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]

A 2020 paper which examines the complex terrain of adoption of digital technologies of production in the automotive industry in India to understand two key aspects: first, the conditions of adoption and second, the impact of digitization on work relations. [Originally posted at https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Studien/Studien_9_Industry_engl_web.pdf]

A 2020 study which proposes an analytical scheme to better interpret and differentiate amongst the growing number of 'just transition' proposals and, by extension, planetary just transition. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811620300240]

A 2020 study which assesses home-heating energy-poverty risk across 18,641 Small Area clusters in Ireland. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421520305127]

A 2020 study which proposes a recovery program for Ohio that is capable of exerting an effective counterforce against the state’s economic collapse in the short run while also building a durable foundation for an economically viable and ecologically sustainable longer-term recovery. [Originally posted at https://peri.umass.edu/images/OhioGreenGrowth_101920_FINAL_230.pdf]

A 2020 commentary which offers more and better support to citizen-led initiatives that support walking and cycling can make the shift to low-carbon mobility in London more just. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332220300464]

A 2020 paper which lays out core considerations for investor expectations for the sector of publicly traded energy utilities. [Originally posted at https://iri.hks.harvard.edu/files/iri/files/iri_utilities_investor_expectations_final.pdf?m=1603132197]