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A 2022 report which details preliminary findings from the project ‘Rare Earths in the Just Transition: Connecting Global Inequalities in REEs Commodity Chains’, which was funded by the British Academy’s Just Transitions within Sectors and Industries Globally scheme.
[Originally posted at https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/4203/Just-transitions-rare-elements-global-inequalities.pdf]
A 2022 paper which explores how the ownership and governance of land in Scotland needs to evolve if the Scottish Government is to deliver on its stated policy objectives.
[Originally posted at https://www.communitylandscotland.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Report-2022-Community-Wealth-Building-and-a-Just-Transition-to-Net-Zero.pdf]
A 2022 conference paper which outlines the production of hydrogen using coal or gas with carbon capture and storage (CCS), known as blue hydrogen.
[Originally posted at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Walwyn/publication/363860831_Blue_Hydrogen_as_an_Interim_Phase_of_the_Just_Transition_Is_it_a_Feasible_Proposition_for_South_Africa/links/6332a0ad694dbe4bf4c435fe/Blue-Hydrogen-as-an-Interim-Phase-of-the-Just-Transition-Is-it-a-Feasible-Proposition-for-South-Africa.pdf]
Feeding the world’s growing population in ways that are effective, ethical and socially just, and protect the natural systems on which all life depends is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. It forms the theme of this book of papers of the 2022 Edinburgh conference of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EURSAFE).
[Originally posted at https://www.wageningenacademic.com/doi/epdf/10.3920/978-90-8686-939-8?role=tab]
A 2022 paper which explores the extent to which social policies in South Africa might serve as mechanisms to enhance the transition to a low carbon economy and contribute to mitigating some of the negative impacts towards ensuring a holistic and 'just transition'.
[Originally posted at https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-afd-research-papers-2022-230-page-1.htm]
A 2022 study which argues that the post-COVID-19 re-build represents a once-in-a generation opportunity to markedly shift developed trajectories to more sustainable pathways, to rebalance the domains of sustainability, and in the process, to address longer-term crises including those of climate and biodiversity loss.
[Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42398-022-00231-y]
A 2022 study which argues that achieving a 'just transition' from coal in Australia will require both deliberate work on the ‘hearts and minds’ journey to acceptance of and development of a shared vision of the concept and taking concrete practical action across government and industry to achieve this vision.
[Originally posted at https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications/towards-a-just-transition-from-coal-in-australia/#:~:text=Achieving%20a%20just%20transition%20from,industry%20to%20achieve%20this%20vision.]
A 2022 report which assesses multiple poverty and equity standards in future scenarios with a newly developed integrated assessment model. It was found that climate change mitigation efforts would not greatly hinder poverty alleviation in China, with the poverty headcount under the $3.2/cap/day-threshold being less than 0.3 million people in 2050 in most scenarios.
[Originally posted at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11625-022-01206-y]
A 2022 article analyses the Brazilian soy value chains using a justice-based, multi-scale approach following the international debate on 'just transition' to sustainable and healthy food systems in the context of climate change.
[Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2022.2105700]
A 2022 report which seeks to highlight issues that will need to be considered within the context of IMF's role in supporting South Africa's 'just transition'. (The report focuses on government and civil society. The private sector falls outside its scope.)
[Originally posted at https://www.africaportal.org/publications/exploring-potential-role-imf-supporting-south-africas-just-transition/]
Carbon prices and carbon caps need to be set at levels that will deliver the reduction targets necessary to keep global warming under 2 °C, aspiring to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels, in line with the Paris Agreement. Given both the urgency of the situation and the heterogeneity across countries and sectors, switching caps and switching prices may be the answer.
[Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421522002105]
A 2022 research which finds that such institutions have exacerbated South Africa’s prospective stranded asset exposure, and by doing so, have accrued a Stranded Asset Debt (SAD)—as a supply-side counterpart to the demand-side climate debt, which they have also accumulated—perhaps to the tune of at least several dozens of billions of dollars.
[Originally posted at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/anti.12868]
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