A 2020 report which aims to identify areas where scientific approaches can support policy, rather than dictate policy choices. For instance, interdisciplinary scenario work combining technology, economics, and social sciences could demonstrate the multiple benefits of sustainable recovery pathways and accompanying societal transformations to enable a more equitable, resilient, and sustainable post-COVID–19 world. In addition, an assessment of the effects of digitalization on energy demand in transport, buildings, and industry, as well as options for making digitalization more sustainable and just, should be undertaken. [Originally posted at https://council.science/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IIASA-ISC-Reports-Energy.pdf]

A 2020 report which calls a post-Covid Just Recovery plan, which ensures that economic systems are people centred and take into account the intersecting factors that cause inequalities and large-scale ecological damage. The paper outlines how we got to the current climate crisis through the emphasis on market fundamentalism, prioritization of profits and financialization, privatization and the hollowing out of the commons, globalization, extensive corporate and labour deregulation, over-reliance on fossil fuels, privatization of social reproduction and care work and how we measure human development and economic growth. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/just-transition/item/4103-no-going-back-to-normal-imagining-a-just-recovery-in-south-africa]

A 2020 research which looks at the economic costs of transition from coal. The authors use secondary data and conduct surveys on coal companies to calculate costs related to the transition over a period of 20 years. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/just-transition/item/4104-estimating-the-cost-of-a-just-transition-in-south-africa-s-coal-sector-protecting-workers-stimulating-regional-development-and-accelerating-a-low-carbon-transition]

A 2020 framework which spells out a social compact between government, business, labour and community, in which each constituency has identified steps to be taken and through which all contribute to resolving the energy crisis, promote labour stability in Eskom to ensure an efficient, reliable and affordable supply of electricity and address the concerns of workers, including the stabilization of Eskom to support job maximization across the South African economy, while enabling inclusive economic growth. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/just-transition/item/4109-framework-agreement-for-a-social-compact-on-supporting-eskom-for-inclusive-economic-growth]

A 2020 article which focuses on the need to better understand how a 'just transition' can shift development paths to achieve net zero emissions and eliminate poverty. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/just-transition/item/4268-towards-a-theory-of-just-transition-a-neo-gramscian-understanding-of-how-to-shift-development-pathways-to-zero-poverty-and-zero-carbon]

A 2020 study which discusses the just transition transaction (JTT). The study seeks to understand the JTT, its architecture and potential to catalyze changes in the complex set of challenges facing South Africa’s electricity sector. The purpose of the study is to understand the potential of a JTT to accelerate the phase out of coal-fired power and to fund development projects. [Originally posted at https://www.tips.org.za/just-transition/item/4269-climate-finance-to-transform-energy-infrastructure-as-part-of-a-just-transition-in-south-africa]

A 2020 report which records the findings of a research study conducted at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) in 2020. It presents a comparative analysis of how the energy transitions in the Netherlands and in the UK are being affected by the COVID-19 crisis, through the conduct of 60 interviews with relevant organizations. The interviews assessed the prospects for achieving a just energy transition in each country moving forward. [Originally posted at https://www.eur.nl/en/essb/media/2020-12-final-report-23-11-2020-managing-just-energy-transition-out-covid-19-crisis]

A 2020 article which presents an analysis of energy transition processes based on a comparative mapping of African renewable energy policies in 34 countries. It discusses these developments with respect to their justice dimension, following up on the recent debate on distributive, recognitional, and procedural energy justice. It not only provides evidence of African energy policies covering recognitional and distributive justice, but also identifies potential trade-offs between strong market orientation and justice concerns. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620301274]

A 2020 publication which presents an overview from INETTT concerning the status of climate and energy policy in each country where they work, set against the backdrop of the country’s current Nationally Defined Contribution (NDC) pledges under the Paris Agreement and the latest electricity and emissions data. [Originally posted at https://www.energiewende-global.com/fileadmin/user_upload/giz-website/Media_Library/Erneuerbare_Energien/The-Net-Zero-Energy-Transition_Agora.pdf]

A 2020 publication which presents an overview from INETTT concerning the status of climate and energy policy in each country where they work, set against the backdrop of the country’s current Nationally Defined Contribution (NDC) pledges under the Paris Agreement and the latest electricity and emissions data. [Originally posted at https://www.energiewende-global.com/fileadmin/user_upload/giz-website/Media_Library/Erneuerbare_Energien/The-Net-Zero-Energy-Transition_Agora.pdf]

A 2020 report offers community groups, policy advocates, and policymakers a pathway to solutions that work for frontline communities and workers. [Originally posted at https://climatejusticealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ProtectRepairInvestTransformdoc22x.pdf]

A 2020 article which asks how prevailing calls for energy transitions to post-carbon futures reflect the combined and uneven present, replicating the inequalities of late carbon capitalism by examining recent events in Cuba and Venezuela. [Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342547160_Combined_and_uneven_energy_transitions_reactive_decarbonization_in_Cuba_and_Venezuela]

A 2020 paper which provides analysis of the current state of circular economy policies in Latin America and the Caribbean and identifies priority issues for governments, businesses, civil society and the research community. [Originally posted at https://www.unido.org/sites/default/files/files/2020-09/circular_economy_lac.pdf]

A 2020 report which is based on the panels, workshops and discussions of the international Future is Public: Democratic Ownership of the Economy conference that took place on 4-5 December, 2019 in Amsterdam’s South-East borough, the Bijlmermeer. [Originally posted at https://www.tni.org/en/publication/7-steps-to-build-a-democratic-economy]

A 2020 report which has developed a set of Principles for 'just transitions' in extractives and agriculture, to help shape fair climate futures in our energy and food systems. [Originally posted at https://actionaid.nl/2020/12/17/principles-for-just-transitions-in-extractives-and-agriculture-shaping-energy-and-food-systems-that-work-for-women-communities-and-the-climate/]

A 2020 study which assesses the changes necessary in employment and workers’ skills in line with the shift to renewables, as well as lessons learned from other countries transitioning away from coal. [Originally posted at https://static1.squarespace.com/static/609a53264723031eccc12e99/t/60ed4d6d4918f36a6d5eb6d3/1626164593677/A+Just+Energy+Transition+in+South+Africa.pdf]