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A 2022 report which is designed to provide guidance to financial institutions on how they can incorporate consideration of the social dimension of climate action – in other words a 'just transition' – within their net zero transition plans.
[Originally posted at https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Making-Transition-Plans-Just-2.pdf]
Decades ago, the American people woke up to the reality of the climate crisis and decided to build a future worth living. Soon enough, we reached net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by restructuring our economy to work for people: we established access to clean, safe housing and quality healthcare as human rights; we guaranteed good-paying, low-carbon jobs to all who wanted them; we secured lifelong access to education for all people who wanted it, and so much more. Today, life after the Just Transition looks different, but similar too. This holds true in Zion, a community in a familiar American city, and Zion’s New University, or “the New” as Zion’s residents call it. Let’s take a closer look at Zion and the New in 2054 and follow a day in the life of one particular student, Nia Greene.
[Originally posted at https://scholarshare.temple.edu/handle/20.500.12613/7916]
A 2022 edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook which explores options for the region to recast its production models, transform its energy matrix and create better jobs in the process. It argues that, for this transition to be just, stronger social protection systems and open dialogue must help build new, sustainable social contracts. In support of this ambitious agenda, the report presents an array of financing options, including green finance, and advocates for renewed international partnerships.
[Originally posted at https://repositorio.cepal.org/handle/11362/48415]
A 2022 dissertation which explores the contribution of renewable energy to sustainable development, “decent work” and the “just transition” to a lowcarbon economy in South Africa.
[Originally posted at https://scholar.sun.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10019.1/124613/malope_power_2022.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y]
A 2022 paper which consists of an exploratory study which seeks to build a multi-criteria index to assess the vulnerability and the readiness of regions affected by the energy transition, based on data collected from six Romanian affected regions.
[Originally posted at https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/picbe-2022-0108]
A 2022 working paper which builds on the theme 'climate change, industrial development, and a 'just transition' and green industrial policy as part of the working paper series of the SARChI Chair in Industrial Development.
[Originally posted at https://static1.squarespace.com/static/52246331e4b0a46e5f1b8ce5/t/627baaf549802e690f4ba962/1652271874951/sarchi-wp-2022-01-kaziboni-and-roberts-february-2022-1.pdf]
A 2022 study which follows the financial allocations in energy transition, focusing on fair transition related to the carboniferous and mono-industrial areas, in Europe and especially in Romania, whose populations go through significant challenges of the quality of life, generated by
changing the activity profile.
[Originally posted at https://stec.univ-ovidius.ro/html/anale/RO/2022-2/Section%203/16.pdf]
A 2022 paper which explores the relationship between extractives and IFFs in order to consider what a review of extractive and tax justice literature anchored in development considerations reveal about possible climate financing possibilities toward a 'just transition'.
[Originally posted at https://ifaaza.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/S-Rakei-Extractives-and-Illicit-Financial-Flows.pdf]
A 2022 report which maps out the key stakeholder groups, focusing on domestic meat markets in high-consuming developed countries, and identifies guiding principles for a 'just transition' away from large-scale meat production and consumption.
[Originally posted at https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/just-transition-meat-sector.pdf]
A 2022 report which finds that EU states' performances on 'just transition' are distinct across four broad regions; Scandinavia, eastern Europe, western Europe, and the Mediterranean. It discusses the nuances of fossil fuel embeddedness in the EU. This is followed by reflection on the importance of embedding fairness in the deployment of new renewable jobs. Finally, it considers the implications for a better-targeted financial mechanism for just transition alongside a fossil fuel divestment strategy.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800922003603]
A 2022 Manifesto for Change which was developed as the final output from the ALIGN project1 and was developed by bringing together stakeholders from across national and local government, business and industry, trade unions, finance, community organisations and the third sector to hear their ambitions for a just energy transition by 2045. It was done by way of a half-day online workshop held in February 2022 in conjunction with the Just Transition Engagement Team at Scottish Government.
[Originally posted at https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/81318/]
A 2022 exploratory research paper which sets out to unpack the misalignment between provincial climate policies and legislated commitments to reconciliation, the meaning of a 'just transition' to a low-carbon future, and how Indigenous clean energy projects and proponents are, and ought to be recognized as, leaders in this transition.
[Originally posted at https://summit.sfu.ca/item/35325]
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