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Risk Blindness in Local Perspectives About the Alberta Oil Sands Hinders Canada’s Decarbonization
A 2021 study which argues that "risk blindness" in local perspectives about the Alberta oil sands could be amplified by dominant institutional narratives that contradict scientific research and international climate policy. [Originally posted at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221042242100085X]
Whose Jobs Face Transition Risk in Alberta? Understanding Sectoral Employment Precarity in an Oil-Rich Canadian Province
A 2022 study which explores direct and indirect employment impacts that could result from the low-carbon transition by analysing the effect of oil price fluctuations on the labour market of Alberta, a Canadian province economically reliant on oil sands extraction. [Originally posted at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2022.2086843]
Just Transition (To a Zero-Carbon Economy): State of Art of the EU Policy Debate
A 2018 presentation by Bela Galgoczi, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, to the ACW All-Team Meeting, November 11, 2018, at York University, Toronto. The presentation focuses on how the concept of 'just transition' has developed into a mainstream demand for European labour unions. [Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39297]
A Just Transition in the Meat Sector: Why, Who and How? A Mapping of Affected Stakeholders in High-Income Countries, and Principles to Guide a Just Transition
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]
Supporting Young Oil and Gas Workers in Alberta: Lessons from Just Transition
A 2020 study which examines potential improvements to Alberta’s employment services system and its active labour market policies to better support young oil and gas workers in their adjustment. [Originally posted at https://summit.sfu.ca/item/20104]
Making the Green Economy Work: Toward a just transition for Canadian Workers
A 2017 Presentation by Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which took place at ACW All Team Meeting at York University, Toronto in November 2017. It summarizes the numbers of jobs in the fossil fuel industry by province and in the top-10 most fossil fuel dependent communities in Canada. It discusses the concept of “reactive” and “proactive” Just Transition. This presentation is more fully developed in the subsequent report "Making Decarbonization Work for Workers: Policies for a just transition to a zero-carbon economy" (https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39435). [Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39302]
Roadmap to a Canadian Just Transition Act: A Path to a Clean and Inclusive Economy
A 2021 report which explores the potential for a Just Transition Act to achieve a managed transition to a lower-carbon economy that minimizes the potential harms and maximizes the potential benefits for workers and their communities. [Originally posted at http://130.63.180.190/xmlui/handle/10315/39436]
Making Decarbonization Work for Workers: Policies for a Just Transition to a Zero-Carbon Economy in Canada
A 2018 report which distinguishes between reactive 'just transition' policies, which are intended to minimize the harm to workers of decarbonization, and proactive just transition policies, which are intended to maximize the benefits. If the broad goal of a just transition is to ensure an equitable, productive outcome for all workers in the zero-carbon economy, a mix of reactive and proactive elements is necessary [Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39435]
Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City
A 2021 book which illuminates the places where theory and reality converge and presents an approach to municipal development, planning, and governance that takes seriously the urgent need to address climate change and injustice. Addressing a wide variety of topics and themes, including energy, diversity, economic development, and ecological health, Sustainability Matters is both a critique of current practice and a vision for the future that uses the city of Calgary as a microcosm to address issues faced by cities around the world. [Originally posted at https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/57694/9781773852492.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y]
Safe Ends With Just Means: Charting a Course to a Fossil Fuel Free Economy for Canada and Beyond
A 2022 dissertation which comprises three papers: 1) a critical overview of fair shares and decarbonization scenarios, and a way to reconcile what should be done with what experts think can be done (with a Canadian case study); 2) a framework for climate testing proposed fossil fuel infrastructure that can be used to evaluate an individual project's compatibility with global or domestic emissions reduction targets (with a case study of Canadian gas); and 3) an analysis of the potential for a shift towards services to mitigate GHG emissions and other environmental impacts. [Originally posted at https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/991208/1/HorenGreenford_PhD_F2022]
Transition Time? Energy Attitudes in Southern Saskatchewan
A 2020 study which finds that residents across southern Saskatchewan are worried about climate change and there is substantial support for a transition, especially to renewable forms of energy for consumption. [Originally posted at https://policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/Saskatchewan%20Office/2020/10/Transition%20Time%20-%20Fall%202020.pdf]
Who Is Included in a Just Transition? Considering Social Equity in Canada’s Shift to a Zero-Carbon Economy
A 2019 report which investigates whether the emerging policy consensus on 'just transition' is consistent with the principles of social justice and equity more broadly. [Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39319]
Climate Change and Just Transition: What Will Workers Need?
A 2017 report which argues that the time has come to address the controversial realities that as a global community we are currently facing: climate change and global warming. [Originally posted at https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/xmlui/handle/10315/39294]
The Role of Tripartite Social Dialogue in Facilitating a Just Transition: Experiences from Selected Countries
A 2022 working paper which analyses the role of tripartite social dialogue in supporting green workplaces and, more generally, promoting 'just transitions' at enterprise level. [Originally posted at https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/265593]
Addressing Polarization: What Works? The Just Transition Task Force
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]
Toward Envisioning and Implementing Just Transitions to a Post-Carbon Society in Canada
A 2021 knowledge synthesis report which contributes to the transdisciplinary and intersectoral envisioning and implementation of a just post-carbon society in Canada. [Originally posted at https://islandscholar.ca/islandora/object/ir%3A23919/datastream/PDF/view]

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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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