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The Peacebuilding Implications of Energy Transitions to a Carbon-Neutral Future
A 2020 paper which explores the peacebuilding implications of energy transitions towards a carbon-neutral future. It examines, on the one hand, the potential risks that abrupt or unmanaged ‘cut off points’ from fossil fuels may pose for peace, and the role that sustainable and 'just transitions' can play in mitigating this. At the same time, it analyzes the significant opportunities that sustainable and just transitions away from fossil fuels can provide for peace, socio-economic and political stability, health, environmental regeneration and justice globally. [Originally posted at https://quno.org/sites/default/files/resources/QUNO%20The%20Peacebuilding%20Implications%20%20of%20Energy%20Transitions%20to%20a%20%20Carbon-Neutral%20Future_12OCT2020.pdf]
Low-Carbon Energy, Sustainable Development, and Justice: Towards a Just Energy Transition for the Society and the Environment
A 2020 paper which establishes a conceptual linkage between “sustainable development”, “low-carbon energy transitions” and “energy justice” and examines social priorities to address peoples' competing priorities associated with low-carbon energy interventions. [Originally posted at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sd.2193]
Just Energy Transitions? Social Inequities, Vulnerabilities and Unintended Consequences
A 2020 report which reveals how practical, on-the-ground energy transitions are understood at the community level. [Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342943195_Just_energy_transitions_Social_inequities_vulnerabilities_and_unintended_consequences]
The Future of a Just Transition in Ukraine: Perceptions in Coal Mining Towns
A 2020 study which analyzes how residents in seven coal mining towns in Donetsk Oblast — Dobropillya, Myrnohrad, Novohrodivka, Pokrovsk, Vuhledar, Selydove, and Toretsk — view the development of their region and of their own towns in the face of upcoming mine closures. [Originally posted at https://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/ukraine/17034-20201218.pdf]
The EBRD Just Transition Initiative: Sharing the Benefits of a Green Economy Transition and Protecting Vulnerable Countries, Regions and People from Falling Behind
A 2020 report by EBRD’s 'just transition' initiative which aims to ensure the benefits of a green economy transition while protecting vulnerable countries, regions and people from falling behind. [Originally posted at https://www.ebrd.com/just-transition]
The Future Energy Landscape for Swedish Industry and Society
A 2020 report which identifies six priority research areas and provides a brief overview of the current context in each research area. In addition, the report puts forward some ideas for a suitable scientific approach that the envisioned research program may employ. [Originally posted at https://www.mistra.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/mistra_bp_-energy_transitions-2020.pdf]
Clean, Affordable and Reliable: Getting Spain’s Power System Transformation Right
A 2020 paper which provides a review of the resource adequacy outlook in Spain and suggests measures that the country can adopt to achieve the desired levels of reliability at least cost while increasing the levels of renewables in its system. [Originally posted at https://www.raponline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rap-kolokathis-spain-power-system-transformation-july-2020.pdf]
Territorial Just Transition Plan Checklist: How to Make TJTPs Climate and People Driven
A 2020 paper which outlines recommendations for the content of each section in the Territorial Just Transition Plans (TJTP) in order to help countries produce meaningful plans which will ensure that the solutions envisaged for regions are sustainable and fair. [Originally posted at https://www.cde-org.cz/media/object/1603/tjtp-checklist.pdf]
Exploring a Just Transition in the Jiu Valley of Romania
A 2020 transcript of a podcast on what a just energy transition looks like in Romania. [The audio version of the podcast can be found at https://podcasts.ceu.edu/content/exploring-just-transition-jiu-valley-romania]
Ten Priority Areas for Romania’s Post COVID-19 Recovery: A Focus on Energy and Climate Policy
A 2020 paper which proposes a list of key issues that need be tackled as part of Romania’s post COVID-19 recovery strategy, structured in ten overarching energy and climate-related priorities. [Originally posted at https://europeanclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/epg-green-recovery-policy-brief-24-nov-1.pdf]
Just Transitions: Histories and Futures in a Post-COVID World
A 2020 article which provides an overview of the history and current status of 'just transitions'. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629620302437]
Explaining Inclusivity in Energy Transitions: Local and Community Energy in Aotearoa New Zealand
A 2020 paper which contributes to understanding inclusivity in country-specific energy transition pathways, setting out an empirical analysis of grassroots energy innovation practices in a country that has to date followed an incumbent-led energy transition pathway – Aotearoa (New Zealand). [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210422420300162]
Multilateral Development Banks: Supporting the Aims of a Just Transition – An Initial Stocktake
A 2020 study which has been commissioned by the members of the Paris Alignment Working Group (PAWG) as part of the work related to Building Block 4 (on engagement and policy development). It presents an initial stocktake of Multicultural Development Bank (MDB) and non-MDB 'just transition' activities to date, and presents a way forward for MDBs to enhance their support for the aims of a 'just transition' through the PAWG. It has been conducted through a series of interviews and desk-based research between April and July 2020. [Originally posted at https://www.ebrd.com/mdb-technical.pdf]
What Does Taranaki Need to Do Have a Just Transition to Healthy People Living in a Healthy Climate?
A 2020 project which aimed to interview key stakeholders both within and outside of the District Health Board and identify recommendations that can facilitate a “just transition to healthy people living in a healthy climate” in Taranaki. [Originally posted at https://www.tdhb.org.nz/services/public_health/documents/Research-Taranaki-healthy-people-healthy-climate.pdf]
Environmental Justice in The Netherlands: Presence and Quality of Greenspace Differ by Socioeconomic Status of Neighbourhoods
A 2020 study which shows that in The Netherlands, neighbourhoods with a low socioeconomic status already tend to have a lower presence and quality of green space than those with a high socioeconomic status. This outcome is independent of the greenness metric that was used. However, depending on the precise greenness metric, socioeconomic differences in greenness between neighbourhoods are smaller in highly urban municipalities than in less urban municipalities, rather than larger. The paper discusses the implications of these outcomes for policy and planning regarding urban green space. [Originally posted at https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/15/5889]
The Just Transition and Its Work of Inequality
A 2020 article which critically discusses the notion of a 'just transition' toward democratic sustainability as developed at the intersection between climate justice and labor politics. We invite an expansion of ideas of socio-environmental and labor justice based on Jacques Ranciere’s “method of (in)equality,” which problematizes justice theories and the politics of identitarian-group recognition. [Originally posted at https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1814585]

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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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